Navratri is the season for garba, Durga pooja and fasting. While garba and the pooja festivities are  being enjoyed, I was contemplating as to why do people fast? Apparently they wish to...

Why don’t you play Golf? My friends ask me often, now that Achille’s tendon injury has put paid to my forays  on the Squash and Tennis Courts. Having spent almost half a century in uniform,...

Odisha is the land of  Bhagwan Jagannath and Sun temple of Konark, we are also reminded of the famous battle of Kalinga which transformed Ashoka the Great. It is the state of Biju Patnaik who was...

Cats have not taken it kindly and an offended cat is a dangerous one. Shakespeare wrote “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned”, I am sure he was not a cat person, else he would have known...