If a 198-country survey conducted by the Washington-based Pew Research Centre is to be believed, India ranks only below civil war-torn Iraq in terms of 'social hostility and religious discrimination'.

Today is the last day of the first decade of the second millennium. It started with a bug, remember?

Is Tiger out of the woods yet? New mistresses keep popping out of the woodwork all the while, the number now being a little over a dozen.

The legal brains hired by Rathore to defend him in the courts are as responsible as Rathore himself for implicating Ruchika's brother in false cases.

Chance found me, three years ago, at the end of a brilliant summer day in Leeds, seated at dinner next to a distinguished gentleman, vice-chair of a venerable UK bank.

Don't dismiss it as a loony idea, this business of naming a moon crater after the King Khan.

Last week Delhi disappeared. Just like that. Disappeared. Whatever could have happened to it? It was an enigma that had the whole country wondering.

In the battleground called climate change, there's often a thin line dividing advocacy from real science.

The Shiv Sena-sangh parivar spat about who has the right to live and work in Mumbai with the Sena claiming that the city be reserved exclusively for Marathi manoos and the RSS and the BJP counter-claiming that the metropolis should be home to any Indian who chooses to make it home has taken a curious turn.

There are many Indias today, all of them struggling to be heard at the same time. Some argue. Others shout, scream, rant.

As if launching a belligerent campaign against north Indians working in Mumbai were not enough, the Shiv Sena, even while lifting the ban on the screening of Shah Rukh Khan's My Name Is Khan, has called the star a traitor because of his statement that Pakistani players should have been included in the IPL a view shared by millions of cricket fans, in Maharashtra and elsewhere in India.

With consciousness we have created very beautiful concepts, and one of them is the idea of relationships.

It's time for India to show its secular face - if it exists.

Poo-nah became Pu-nay. Along the way, the hobbling pensioner town turned into a dancing, trancing, blond sanyasin, and then a preening IT girl.

I'd long wondered how -- despite its famously accommodative spirit -- Goa managed to fit in all those non-Goans who were buying up property there as though not only were there no tomorrow but very little left of even today.

A little over a month ago, when Google made defiant noises of shutting down its office in China, the stand-off was phrased with great fanfare as the new clash of civilisations.

Would a Pune-style bomb blast have happened in a Chinese city? Or a 26/11? Or any of the scores of terror attacks that India has been subjected to over the years?

Migrant flamingos and migrated family fly into Mumbai every winter.

World Cup yet to take off

Fear of virus is overshadowing government appeals to businesses to resume operations

Since companies even in orange and green zones require components from red zones, the economic disruption has remained, and will remain, massive. The virus is still spreading fast, so economist Neelkanth Mishra estimates that red zones will expand from 130 districts to 181. The answer can’t be to keep shutting down more and more districts.

Bollywood star Arjun Rampal recently took to social media to share a special Mother’s Day posts for his mother and girlfriend Gabriella Demetriades with whom the actor welcomed their first son Arik, last year.