And so now the Pope is wrong because he is calling for peace and trying to save lives. He advised Ukraine to show the “white flag”, which other than meaning surrender is also a symbol of peace.
You have all been invited for “daal-bhaat to a gorib’s house” by (surprise, surprise) a well-to-do host. Obviously, he is far from being poor. Or else, he would not have invited you.
The present landlords have been living on their land, happily, merrily, for eons with their elders and children.
There is a reason why you do not see me singing on television.
Relaxing on the deck of his 50-metre yacht, off the Grand Resort Lagonissi in Athens, a quadrillionaire was sipping on his orange juice before a late breakfast. It was spiked with a dash of lemon and fresh mint sprigs.
Grenfel Tower in London was entrapped in the myth that a single staircase under mechanically-induced positive air pressure was safe for a 24-storey block of apartments.
The world is grieving for Pelé, one of its most gifted sons, who won the universe with his football skills.
In the days leading up to the greatest show on earth, miserably apt was the Bangla saying, "Jare dekhte nari, tar cholon banka."
Perhaps the Pakistanis need reminding that whereas a full-fledged military operation of the savagest brutality could not silence unarmed Bangalees, such hollow attempts of frail intimidation could not even tickle us.
There was an outcry on Facebook the past week about why the infectious social platform was blatantly discriminating between bloodshed in Beirut on Thursday and Paris the day after, both ISIS-orchestrated.
You have heard of G-11, and may have wondered how outlandish that can be. How many layers of 'economicsphere' separate us and them?
Despite endless untiring songs about bringing equality for all humanity (for instance, One World One Song, Dionne Warwick), even...
Use an interpreter. But, never let your counterpart have the upper hand by coaxing you to speak in his tongue in your own country. Your pride, your history, your very being should refrain you from doing that.
There is remembrance of the 9000-plus dead, yet there is an underlying resolve among the people. The dead shall not rise for sure, but
Not that I am very keen, except maybe for a selfie with the doorman to the envy of my Facebook friends, I have over the past week discovered a sure way to be invited to the White House; more so because of Mark Zuckerberg's interest in the most ridiculous of science-related stories.
Love him or not, you cannot but be awestruck at the sheer bluntness, call it lack of guile, of Suranjit Sengupta for his candid pronouncement to government employees within 24 hours of their pay hike.
When India denied us our much-needed legitimate river water, they succumbed to the West Bengal logic that water was in short supply across the border, but stopping migration of excess cows defies all rationality.
The name Barrack Obama will remain etched in history as the first black President of the United States (POTUS). Soon, with a little more help from Donald Trump (Conservative/Independent), the US might be having its first woman president.
