January 10, 2014 In return for a Green Card, all you have to do is provide evidence against your prominent employer Dear Foreign Housekeeper/ Babysitter in New York: I am writing to give you some good news. I am the president of Do-gooders Foundation in New York City. We are affiliated to the Sanctimonious Eastern […]
November 14, 2013 A letter Rahul Gandhi didn’t write to Manmohan Singh but could have. I want to bring to your attention the current nonsensical travel policy of our government. Our great scientific genius, Shri Jairam Rameshji, after consulting various hysterical NGOs rather than scientists, has come to the conclusion that Bt Brinjal should be […]
September 9, 2013 The government seems determined to create a de-industrialized moonscape across India. We have seen a spate of rights-based welfare schemes being started by our omniscient and honorable Sultanate in Delhi. I am sure I am getting the names of our new laws wrong. But, what’s in a name? Right to Poor Quality […]
April 8, 2013 Can we agree to vote only for parties that promise to implement the police reforms? Dear readers: I congratulate those among you who do not have their children in the police force of this great country and I commiserate with those parents whose children have become policemen and policewomen either through legitimate […]
March 22, 2013 Viren Shah, who passed away recently, was more than just a veteran businessman and a public persona with gravitas. He represented a world of sophistication, courage and resilience that we Indians would do well to keep in our memories. His name had the Sanskrit resonance associated with bravery and heroism. He certainly […]
Jul 20, 2012 “A promise is a promise” is what Ratan Tata had said when he gave India the Nano in 2008. Four years down, Jaithirth (Jerry) Rao expresses a similar sentiment. Rao, who had previously founded IT company Mphasis that he later sold to EDS, had promised he would do a housing project with […]
May 27, 2012 Dear Mr. Gandhi, I write this letter to you hoping that you can and you will intervene to transform the current climate in the country which is increasingly anti-business and anti-entrepreneurship. You are aware that without an vibrant eco-system that support business activity, economic growth is not possible, and prosperity will continue […]
May 17, 2012 For Shirin Darasha,school was a democratic republic of talent Some lives are celebrations; there is a measure of fulfilment in writing about the departed person. Shirin Darasha ,who retired some years ago after a long stint as principal of Mumbai’s J.B. Petit High School for Girls, passed away recently. Thinking about Darasha’s […]