I was attending a cocktail party at a triplex apartment in one of the tall buildings on the Carmichael Road, in south Mumbai. Someone said
The Merlion of Singapore
[This story is real, but I have changed the setting, names and characters for the interest of privacy. I have also blended a few instances.
Transforming India in Just 21 Days (with Harun Al-Rashid)
On a Sunday, doorbell of my apartment rang. I opened the door expecting my maid but instead found a stranger, dressed in the clothes of
The Business of Climate Change
[This post is a fictitious story and not real! No offences to the names cited. All said or written to be taken in humor] My
Pollution Upstream, By Products Downstream – and Who should Pay?
Last week I was in the chamber of Member Secretary of one of the progressive State Pollution Control Boards in India. A discussion was ongoing
Coffee that was so hard to refuse
I was in Montreal to attend an international meeting on Ecocities. I arrived a day early as I was keen to listen to the Jazz