I am as outraged as any right thinking person about the attacks on Indian students in Australia. While there are some I spoke to, including a former colleague and friend who has just finished a course of study at the University of Melbourne, who say "Indian media seems to have gone nuts with the...

A few days ago, in a rush to get things together for my parent’s trip to India, I ran in to an Airtel store to get a prepaid SIM card. I impatiently waited in line and happened to notice a rather handsome, dark fellow at the next counter. Okay, I might have been staring a little (he was cute and I was...

This morning I ran over to the post office to mail a package to a friend back in the US. There was a long line at the Parcel/Checking/Everything Else window and no line at the Buy Your Stamps Here window. I wasn’t sure what I needed, so I opted for the no-line window. The postal employee looked at my...

I started this posting prior to the Mumbai attacks. And after they happened, I stopped working on the post, because it felt strange teasing strangers about their shortcomings. But I realize we probably need to seize this minute to address our failings, before we slip back into cynical antipathy. So many...

There has been a lot of renewed debate in India this past week about Muslims, Hindus, Pakistanis, “true” Muslims, Jews, Americans and Islamists, as India and Indians come to terms with the terrorist attacks in Mumbai. It is only natural that issues of race, religion, ethnicity and skin-color, all of...

Amid reports that the steep prices for iPhones in India--at least three times more than what they retail for in the US with service restrictions--have kept launch week response muted, here is an interesting factoid that has emerged. Citing the example of a rather disappointed Pankaj Bajoria, who was...