Men, and women, who think that all there is to life is to toil must be utterly unschooled in ways necessary for healthy human development.

If there is one single individual icon who epitomises India-Russia cooperation above and beyond politics, diplomacy and transactional ties, it is India’s greatest chess player and five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand.

How I learnt that it never pays to enter the periphery of the sannidhi through the backdoor and exit through the side passage, thus bypassing the presiding deity of a place.

'Indians would be disappointed, if not devastated, to know that India does not figure prominently on the Chinese radar. It is our own exaggerated sense of self-importance that make Indians think they are giving sleepless nights to the Chinese.'

Three of the four elements that make for a murder are missing. These are: the murderer, the motive and the murder weapon. The only certain element is the murder victim.