In my blog last week I wrote about the phenomenon of restaurants pushing feedback forms on diners.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has an opportunity to rise above the din of Delhi’s latest political controversy.

In Egypt,the Foreign Secretary was not willing to concede that there was a mistake of any sort in the joint statement.

Yes we are global ma'am,well almost. Maybe not fully the way they told you so,but we are.

It used to be pesky salesmen on the phone but now they are pestering you at lunch.

Whether it is global trade,climate change,or nuclear non-proliferation,our mandarins and talking heads think glory lies in imagining pressure and standing up against it.

If the Member-Secretary and Chairman of AICTE are involved in bribery,the rot runs deep.

It was noticeable that almost all the fuming over the supposed slight to the sari emanated from men,not from women. Which reflects the chauvinistic double standards of the Indian male.

The success of Akshay Kumar starrer 'Kambakkht Ishq' has really stunned the industry.

As many skeptics had suspected,123 Agreement was not going to be the end of India's quest for recognition in global order.

I was in Ahmedabad the day the hooch tragedy came to light. It started with a few deaths and then the numbers rose,rapidly.

PM's remarks on his way back from the G-8 meetings in Italy suggest that a deal with Pak on the resumption of talks,may be at hand.

The expansion of the G8 to the G14 is taking place with new structures being put together with hairpins and chewing gum.

I wonder whether those who get uptight about Section 377 of IPC have bothered to read it.

Long after the Japanese gave up their kimonos,the Chinese their Mao boiler suits and the South Americans their boleros,we Indian woman,whether at home or abroad,clung loyally to our saris.

Should Delhi offer significant military assistance to Kabul? Should India send its troops into Afghanistan?

In global meetings,there is now concern on India and China changing the balance of power.

Some weeks ago,on a flight,I watched Milk,a film about the life of the American gay rights campaigner Harvey Milk. The film was about a remarkable man who fought for his beliefs with passion and joie de vivre and who died sadly young.

In the late-eighties Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi met Gorbachev & it was decided that Indo-Soviet trade would be doubled.

When it comes to introspecting on our own behaviour towards foreigners,we tend to turn a blind eye.

Annual budget-making exercises are characterised by hype and media and other attention.

There is considerable excitement at the prospect of reform initiated by the HRD Minister.

Few in New Delhi might have noticed a memorandum of understanding signed by the leaders of Pakistan and Afghanistan during early May in Washington about regional trade and transit.

'It is also not practical to invite foreign universities here when our own universities are in bad shape.'

We’ve been hearing stories of Michael Jackson’s shady lifestyle for so long that we had almost forgotten what made him famous in the first place.