Operation - No name, No
heroes
By now most of you would have seen the airlift movie and
decided one way or the other about how the hundred thousand plus people were
rescued from Kuwait. I watched the movie too and it took me back to those days
when I was living in Saudi Arabia, just across the bord…
The Air Bridge - 1990
Operation - No name, No
heroes
By now most of you would have seen the airlift movie and
decided one way or the other about how the hundred thousand plus people were
rescued from Kuwait. I watched the movie too and it took me back to those days
when I was living in Saudi Arabia, just across the bord…
LAKSHMI Nandan MENON (1899–1994)
Few would remember this unassuming, khadi clad diplomat who
handled external affairs for India during and after the Chinese debacle. She
held together with great dignity, the fraying edges of the visible Indian
fabric, the declining clout in the international scene …
Those steamy, smoky
and sooty days
Sometimes I sit back and think of some of those jolly train
rides in the Indian railways. I have always liked them, and even though I could
opine like most others that it is desirable that those trains be cleaner,
punctual and efficient, they still cast a spell on…
George Harrison and
the sitar, the Beatles
Beatles remain a favorite of mine and I have always liked
the perky number Norwegian Wood. The opening chords stayed stuck in my memory
and the other day I was wondering about how this instrument got used for the
song, assuming naturally that it followed f…
