[From my Metro Now column – another in a series of trying-hard-to-be-optimistic pieces about the traffic situation in Delhi]
Every dark cloud has a silver lining, we are constantly told, but the adage forgets to add that at times the lining must be surgically attached. This can be accomplished by grabbing the squirming cloud, pinning it […]

[From my Metro Now column]I’ve concluded that the multi-level underground parking lots in Delhi’s newest malls are versions of the clover leaf-shaped flyovers that are staples in big cities around the world. In fact, if you can picture a clover fly…

Such are the many transgressions of vehicle-drivers on Delhi roads that we sometimes lose sight of the rule-flouting done by pedestrians. These are the people who are most at risk and you’d think they would know this - but no, they walk out into heav…

When the earthquake struck at 4.40 AM last week, the glass windows rattled loudly and we leapt out of bed in unison. However, this reflex action had little to do with an immediate awareness that tectonic plates were high-fiving each other kilometres be…

The unruly monkeys of Delhi have been accused of killing a deputy mayor, who died of head injuries in hospital yesterday after falling from the first-floor terrace of his home.
S. S. Baiwa, 52, a leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), fell while reading a newspaper on the terrace at about 7am on Saturday, according […]