Jug Suraiya blog

Woe, Calcutta!

Trump declares war on a city for something that took place 269 years ago  Donald Trump in the Oval Office.…

2 weeks ago

Kathmandu, mon amour

A naive and sentimental lover’s lament for a lost ill-starred romance  For more than 20 years Kathmandu was our favourite…

2 months ago

Kathmandu, mon amour

A naive and sentimental lover’s lament for a lost ill-starred romance  For more than 20 years Kathmandu was our favourite…

2 months ago

Make a racket

By making everything from T-shirts to TVs costly, Trump makes a new breed of American entrepreneur The CEO of Rackets…

3 months ago

Illegal Bengali

People who speak that Indian language face deportation from Gurgaon and other parts of the country Bunny and I are…

4 months ago

Arms and the man

A brief history of weapons, wars, and the military-industrial complex  Two Stone Age men, Stone Ager 1 and Stone Ager…

4 months ago

Talk the talk

The globalisation of English has taken a lot of the foreignness out of foreign travel Bunny and I are in…

6 months ago

Indestructible India

And they’re back. Barely had the hills stopped echoing with the murderous crescendo of terrorist bullets, hardly had the gunsmoke…

7 months ago

Shower power

When Donald Trump reigns, it pours. Quite literally. The US president has signed an order that rescinds a 1992 legislation…

7 months ago

Shower power

President Trump wages a water war so that Americans can have their legitimate ‘bathright’ When Donald Trump reigns, it pours.…

7 months ago