In North India, Diwali time is the time for exchanging gifts of sweets with your neighbours, friends and relatives. It is  “Soan Papdi  time” for the annual passing the parcel festival...

We all are  familiar with the term  “phobia” and its mere mention is adequate to create a phobia around some people. “Uxoro” in latin means wife and to be scared of one’s...

I have had a unique relationship with plasters, you may call it an enduring affair, as in the last five decades I have religiously landed in one of them once in each of them, not a mean but quite an unenviable...

 I can still recall our first encounter with any Jew, he was the Adjutant in NDA Khadakwasla Pune, Major Daniels, an impressive immaculate Gurkha officer whose persona was awe inspiring for all the...