Juggle-Bandhi blog

Over the years the tiny state has grown in size compared with the rest of the country Over the years, minuscule Goa has enlarged itself. It’s not that, like a sleeper wakening and stretching, it has nudged itself into the sea it faces. Geographically Goa remains the same, yet somehow it must have expanded, because…

A Bihari banquet brings home the culinary and cultural diversity of the country I last visited Bihar in the mid-70s to interview Jayaprakash Narayan – JP as he was called by his followers – in Patna at the height of his movement against Indira Gandhi’s authoritarianism.  The ageing leader spoke with a passion all the…

By wanting to buy Greenland, Trump hopes to revive a time-honoured US real estate tradition Donald Trump seems ready to modify his MAGA mantra, Make America Great Again, to Make America Greater Again. Not content to make US merely Great, the Don wants to make it Greater, literally, by enlarging its geography.  The Don’s long…

I recall a meeting with someone who embodied that most uncommon of qualities, common decency I had mixed feelings about the meeting. I was eager to meet someone whom I greatly admired and respected. Yet, for these very reasons, I was loth to take up his valuable time with my visit. The host was to…