Suyash Sharma

Perusing the lexicon I came across a very interesting word ‘Uxorious’, which literally means ‘one who is excessively fond of one’s wife or submissive to his wife’. Although not a very frequently used  word, I presumed there has to be similar  word which would describe a wife who is similarly excessively fond of her husband. […]

We need to get out of our cosy cocoons more often and connect with the holloi polloi of the heartland. Sitting in Delhi and other metros we are no longer connected to the masses. The India Bharat divide comes to the fore almost immediately. We happened to visit Lalitpur a small town in BUNDELKHAND in

“Alingan” is the Hindi synonym for hugging, which our PM Narendra Modi ji had made his personal trademark while he embraced the heads of states over the last four years. This “ashwamedh” of embracement was exclusively reserved for the dignitaries and executed with warmth and camaraderie overflowing between the two most powerful people of their

Could the Karnataka drama have had a different climax than the one that we have just witnessed? Well may be yes maybe no depending on what are your expectations and sensibilities or maybe which side of the political divide you are on, the secular/communal or the pseudo secular variety. Is our election process akin to

“Una hirundo non facit ver”, that is Latin for “One swallow does not a summer make!”, I am sure you must have read of this maxim somewhere. But in Nilgiris, it is not just one sparrow, there are scores of them here chirping, hopping about like a lark. I wonder if you all have noticed

At the outset, I must apologise for plagiarising the title from Stephen Spielberg, the oldies would surely recall his first contact with the aliens in “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”, before he introduced “ET”, the Extra terrestrial. Hairdressers or Barbers, as we used to refer to them, back then, also bear a remarkable similarity

PASAN PERIPHERY PUS “Pasan periphery pus”…….the most commonly heard phrase, if you may call it a phrase in the academy, some of you may be wondering what the hell is this? Is it a limerick or a nursery rhyme, with something to follow, well..it is just that and what follows is a take off by

BEING A SPORT Did you just say Table tennis? No that is no game; real men play troop games you know, the hockey football variety and Rimcollians well they box…… In the worst case maybe the officer like tennis or squash, but for heaven’s sake don’t even think of indulging in this lowly pursuit while

After having successfully completed almost 52 weeks of training we the motley group of the Eightieth regular course at Dehradun were about to embark on the toughest challenge which was the culmination of all that our worthy instructors tried to  literally drill it into us, Camp Chindits. The camp is reported to be amongst the

After having successfully completed almost 52 weeks of training we the motley group of the Eightieth regular course at Dehradun were about to embark on the toughest challenge which was the culmination of all that our worthy instructors tried to  literally drill it into us, Camp Chindits. The camp is reported to be amongst the