Navraj Bhatia

I have not been watching events at the Tokyo Olympics on TV but closely enough to know who has won and who lost. Of course, when India is involved, my antenna is up. I despair every time an…

For some strange reason, growing old and being spiritual is considered synonymous in our society. Being otherwise is almost a crime. ‘Old and spiritual’ is acceptable but ‘old and…

Bengaluru: Basavaraj S Bommai has been elected as the new chief minister of Karnataka by the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) legislature party. He was the home minister in the BS Yediyurappa…

Thailand: This was almost like a gang war. Only the gangsters were four-legged and with a tail! And they were not just monkeying around. Hundreds of monkeys descended in the…

This is too much too soon. First, Mandira Bedi was the target for daring to defy social norms at her husband’s death and now it is actress Shilpa Shetty, whose reputation is being torn to…

All around me, I see single women struggling to manage their finances. They are single by choice, divorced, separated or widowed. Whatever their status, they don’t know ‘F’ of finance.…

Cuttack: Alarmed by over 30 houses looted in the last 10 nights, the villagers of Siaria and Biswanthapur under Narasighpur block here, have decided to take care of their own…

The pandemic has levelled all differences and divides of class, caste wealth, haves, have nots, the marginalised, bigots, believers, rebels, peacemakers, doers and non-doers, naukars and…

Just as I was thinking of a subject for this week’s column, the ‘thekedars’ of this society that I live in came to my rescue. Actually, I am wondering if I should expend my energy in…

Chi Chi. That’s what doubled as a remark at the sight of Govinda and is also incidentally his nickname. Back in the 1980s and 1990s the hoi polloi loved to berate him while the masses…