Far from Salient

There are quite a few things which I don’t agree with but there is one thing mentioned in public discourse which of late bothers me a lot.

The Maratha Confederacy in its heydays was known for patronising temples across the Indian subcontinent. So it wasn’t a surprise to find…

Last month I visited Trombay where I grew up. This Madrassa^ is situated right behind the house that faced our house there. It seemed they…

Last February, I visited Baghdadi restaurant in Colaba. In its heyday the place was a bustling joint. What I visited was a derelict place…

A couple of years back, Bengaluru was rocked with a scandal. A security man posted at a Namma Metro station in response to a local person’s…

Tallapaka Annamacharaya was a 15th-century philosopher-musician. Known to have composed 32000 sankirtanas in Telugu, out of which 12000…

Growing up, the Tamil language had a great influence on life in general. It helped to grow-up in a locality which is largely…

“Sitamarhi,” he said.

So I watched the entire session of the Congressional hearing on ‘Human Rights in South Asia’ and I noticed a couple of things: