Imagining national identity

I guess it’s official now. Imagining national identity may not be my next published book. But, it’s definitely going to be my next project.
I met Sage’s Senior Commissioning Editor yesterday over a cup of tea at Koshy’s. By some strange twist of fate, we ended up sitting at the same where I signed my contract [...]

After Ginger Soda Lemon Pop…

Almost five years ago, around about July 2003, I was in a bit of a quandary. After close to over nine months in the UK to do my Master’s at the LSE, I’d returned to India, where I was to complete my dissertation and mail it back to the LSE.
But the year in the UK [...]

Khuda Ke liye

Sometime ago, Shabana Azmi was speaking on the increasing radicalisation of Islam and she said… “The fight today cannot be between the Christian and the Muslim, the fight cannot be between the Hindu and the Muslim—the fight needs to be between ideologies—the ideologies of the liberal versus the ideologies of the extremist. The liberal Muslim, [...]