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September 06, 2025
Beyond the classroom: Lessons from a saree, a smile, and Brigitte Bardot
How one perceptive teacher, Miss Vijaya, taught me that education goes far beyond textbooks through humour, encouragement, and a schoolboy’s secret reading of Playboy.
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August 19, 2025
Strada Chiantigiana: Driving through Tuscany with Forster, spaghetti worms and sprezzatura
Tuscany offers a unique driving experience through its stunning landscapes. The journey delves into the cultural nuances of Italy, inspired by E.M. Forster's observations, embracing both the beauty and delightful contradictions of the region
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July 25, 2025
Malaya: Britain’s forgotten war for rubber and personal reckoning
Malayan Emergency, officially "the Emergency," was a brutal British counter-insurgency campaign from 1948-1960, primarily driven by economic exploitation of rubber and tin rather than anti-communism
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July 14, 2025
The long game: Sinner, Wimbledon, and the art of hanging in
Jannik Sinner won his maiden Wimbledon title defeating two-time defending champion Carlos Alcaraz
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June 27, 2025
Postcard from Broken Britain
I recently travelled from Tuscany and am now reluctantly embedded in the North
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June 20, 2025
Trial by pigmentation: How we all failed the girls, and are still failing ourselves
Welcome to liberal authoritarianism. A world in which “community cohesion” became a euphemism for cowardice, and “diversity and inclusion” became a shield for institutional paralysis
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June 14, 2025
Buckley, Vidal, and me: How a 16-year-old Malaysian boy witnessed the birth of Trump
Would Trump exist without Buckley vs. Vidal? Not in the same way. Without the model of the televised ideological cage match, Trump would still be hawking steaks and shouting at apprentices
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May 30, 2025
Briefs, brainwaves and bucket lists
A colourful philosophy of life, law, and living before the kick
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May 23, 2025
Postcards from a parallel universe: Trump, tariffs, and the Great South African safari
Donald Trump’s obsession with “land seizures” and “white genocide” in South Africa isn’t new. It’s a cocktail of half-baked Breitbart headlines, Fox News fever dreams, and Elon Musk tweets stirred together and served warm under a Confederate flag
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May 18, 2025
Front row cool: The mountains, the myths, and the men who never tried
A postcard from the foot of the glorious mountain range in northern Tuscany, Italy
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May 09, 2025
The Ghost in the Machine: AI, Right of Personality, and the Fight for Cultural Sovereignty
In the twilight hours of print journalism and the dawn of digital storytelling, the tectonic shifts brought by AI are now unmistakable
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May 09, 2025
The Resurrection of hope: Pope Leo XIV and the return to Christianity’s roots
Born in Chicago to a French father and an Italian mother, and later a missionary in Peru where he earned citizenship, Pope Leo XIV embodies a mosaic of cultures
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April 26, 2025
From nightclub bouncer to the Pope of the poor
Piano, the Italian word for slow, was one of Pope Francis’s favourite words. He wanted a gentle touch to heal everything and everyone from refugees to sexual minorities to climate change and the death penalty
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April 25, 2025
Via Francigena: A road between worlds—and why MAGA can’t touch It
From Buttermere to Garfagnana, one man’s journey through faith, fracture, and fragile harmony
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April 18, 2025
The dragon did not wait for the elephant
India chose the wrong route. It chased glitter instead of grit. It preferred applause in London to silent reform in the villages. It clung to the colonial umbilical cord, addicted to validation, unable to reimagine its own worth
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March 28, 2025
The World Turns, and So Do I. ‘Yangtze. Runs. Deep.’
China is playing its hand masterfully, underwriting global order not with tanks, but with trade, infrastructure, and cold, calculated diplomacy
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March 21, 2025
Deportation orders, desperation, and the thin line between belonging and exile
Manikarnika Dutta has the world behind her now—universities, lawyers, colleagues willing to fight. But the feeling in that moment, when the deportation order lands like a guillotine, is universal
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March 15, 2025
What’s new, pussycat?
Air India has exposed the appalling state of travel etiquette among Indians and their deep-rooted cultural apathy towards public spaces
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March 07, 2025
The bill comes due: Britain’s reckoning with Empire
The £18 trillion figure is not plucked from the air. It is an estimate of the economic benefits Britain reaped from centuries of enslaving millions, calculated against the suffering, destruction, and generational disadvantage inflicted on those it enslaved
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February 28, 2025
Majestic. Mannered. Murdered.
Somewhere, beneath the brashness and the noise, beneath the TikTok/ Instagram inanities and the tabloid vitriol, there is still an England worth holding onto
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February 21, 2025
India’s faded enchantment as a tourist hotspot
The India I once knew—a land of mystique and discovery—has transformed into a village fair masquerading as a world-class destination, where rules are bent, standards are low, and the chaos is as palpable as the heat on the pavement
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February 14, 2025
The art of accidental eavesdropping
Conversations I accidentally overheard... from notes in my diaries, spanning continents and decades
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February 08, 2025
Storytelling is a form of architecture
For a week, I have been back in Blighty, staying in Lytham, slipping into old habits like a well-worn coat. And one such habit—one that has never left me—is the simple pleasure of sitting in a darkened cinema
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