Kishwar Desai
Partying Pippa & the ‘stunned’ paparazzi
Apr 20, 2012If every generation of the Royal family needs one wild card to liven it up, then the present lot has found its saviour in Pippa Middleton.
Can good looks wreck your life?
Apr 7, 2012Recently in the UK a slightly delusional article by journalist Samantha Brick lamenting that her “pretty face” has made women desperately envious,
Britain through the kaleidoscope
Mar 24, 2012When Queen Elizabeth II celebrated her diamond jubilee with British parliamentarians this week, it was time again for tiaras and tradition
Women and their world
Mar 10, 2012What better way to celebrate International Women’s Day than to announce the all-women longlist for the Orange Prize
Tetchy Brits and their tantrums
Feb 25, 2012Is it the unseasonably warm weather — Britain is as hot as Morocco — which has made everyone so tetchy?
Diamonds and rust
Feb 11, 2012Temperatures may have dropped dramatically, but London is warming up for a year of celebrations, as only the British know how.
Must India downplay its secular credentials?
Jan 28, 2012As part of a secular nation, one must be able to respect and appreciate religions other than one’s own without prejudice or dismay.
From designer riots to other hate crimes
Jan 14, 2012Has racism raised its ugly head in the UK once again?
An unruly year of people power
Dec 31, 2011Only a day left and it is time to pack away an unruly year which was almost rushed off its feet by events — most of which were driven by the aam aadmi
This Xmas embrace British frugality
Dec 17, 2011M.F. Husain and Dev Anand both died in London this year, in very different circumstances.


