As the Shatabdi wended its way south, we passed a continuous landscape of dusty fields with dispirited men and cattle, all wandering in...

India-Pakistan cricket fed a chauvinist imperative for decades. The liberal wind in the willows changed all that. For Outlook | August...

For Outlook | June 1, 2009 The fleeting Indian spring is gone and summer is upon us. But the trees continue to offer surprises every day....

For Outlook | December 1, 2008 These days I once again have the temporary use of a Lutyens bungalow. As we did when we lived on Akbar...

Empire's marionette, Duleep Singh could only align his life with an idle absurdity For Outlook | November 3, 2008 Maharaja Ranjit Singh...

For Outlook | September 29, 2008 My love affair with the Himalayas started in 1961 when I trained at the Himalayan Mountaineering Institute, Darjeeling, under Tenzing Norgay and his nephew, Nawang Gombu. The affair continued during my stint as deputy commissioner, Lahaul-Spiti, under the great Punjab chief minister Pratap Singh Kairon. A winter crossing in February of the Rohtang Pass remains a precious memory. Two years ago, we went to Leh, and on to the Nubra Valley, across

Republic Day was always long on ceremony, now it's short on grace too For Outlook | February 16, 2008 I saw the Republic Day parade for...

For Outlook | September 3, 2007 Pre-1966, the Beas-Kangra valley was part of the Punjab. My early service was spent in that beautiful...

For Outlook | April 30, 2007 I first went to Kathmandu when I was CEC many years ago. It was a world congress on mountaineering and...

Meticulously researched and produced, it gives the entire history of India's one-day matches. This will be manna for all schoolboys For...

Good for a long train or air journey. The tale is interesting and amusing, and describes a period which, thank God, can never be again....

Lutyens' Delhi is under siege and no one cares. It's an unholy coup d'etat. For Outlook | July 3, 2006 I have lived for many years in...

For The Sunday Tribune, Chandigarh | June 4, 2006 June 1, 2006 is a happy day for me and all who have some connection with Tarn Taran. In...

For The Tribune, Chandigarh | May 4, 2006 When Punjab was again divided in 1966, I was DC, Ambala. I proposed the creation of Ropar...

Tigers roamed here once. Now, it's a jungle of caterwauling tourists. For Outlook | February 27, 2006 Ranthambhor and its tigers were...

The cartoons are a perceptive history of independent India from earliest times to now such as no one has done before, not even Nehru. For...

Classic reissue, of import to both those from the Punjab and those whose lives it shaped For Outlook | January 30, 2006 For 50 years,...

There are minor errors of dates and facts, which OUP shouldn't have allowed. But it's a small blemish on a fine farewell offering For...

For The Asian Age New Delhi | November 27, 2004 Yesterday was Guru Nanak's birthday. All over this country, and around the world,...