Aviation experts always say, flying is safe; it is the take-off and landing that scare most people.
During my line of work, sometimes I would fly wearing the navy winter uniform from Pensacola, Flori...
The popular expectation for India’s coming general election is that it will be a showdown between the scion of the grand old Congress party’s Nehru-Gandhi dynasty and a firebrand leader of...
Here is one question that keeps popping into my mind: Is mankind happier nowadays than it was in the past? Human beings certainly have an easier life, but…are they “happier”? Has pr...
It was not difficult for me to meet with Raj Kapoor, one of the top Indian actors of the ’50s and ’60s. The others included Dilip Kumar and Dev Anand. But Raj was the son of an actor calle...
As I write this, Nelson Mandela is still with us. He may even still be living at the end of this year. But this is his fourth hospitalization in six months, and the prognosis for the 94-year-old man w...
Then you have those people who when they don’t remember your name say things like, Oh I never forget a face, it’s just that I am not to good with names. Which is a lot of crock really beca...
