Whose India is it?
That’s it,” said one of the academics at the table as the seminar at Wellesley College ended. “Time to...
By Jerry Pinto April 23, 2017Known for his tongue-in-cheek humour, Jerry Pinto won the National Award for the Best Book on Cinema for Helen: The Life and Times of an H-Bomb. The former editor of Man’s World is now associated with MelJol, an NGO that works for child rights.
That’s it,” said one of the academics at the table as the seminar at Wellesley College ended. “Time to...
By Jerry Pinto April 23, 2017After nearly 30 years as a writer, I should have the moves down pat. I should be able to think and to...
By Jerry Pinto April 09, 2017It seems as if the middle-class is programmed to believe that the perfect family is not just possible...
By Jerry Pinto March 26, 2017The standard advice you are given when you go abroad is, “Don’t convert.” Not to another faith, no....
By Jerry Pinto March 12, 2017We all know what we should be doing. We should eat less, we should exercise more, we should stop to...
By Jerry Pinto February 26, 2017I am always mildly surprised at how easily the personal comment comes to the tongue. I meet someone I...
By Jerry Pinto February 12, 2017By the time you read this, I will probably have made a complete ass of myself, but that is what happens...
By Jerry Pinto January 29, 2017At the end of the year, one is always being asked questions that are almost unanswerable. One of them...
By Jerry Pinto January 15, 2017I sometimes feel like going up to the young children I see and apologising to them. “I am really sorry...
By Jerry Pinto January 01, 2017If you read the Constitution of India—take some time off, do, because in dark times, it can be a beacon...
By Jerry Pinto December 18, 2016When I was young, I was told that the government had demonitised the 5,000-rupee note. I did not quite...
By Jerry Pinto November 20, 2016A friend of mine wrote me a letter. Not an email, a letter. Most of the letter was about writing the...
By Jerry Pinto November 06, 2016My rule for myself is: do not sneeze or cough when on the phone. This is not because it is impolite—I...
By Jerry Pinto October 23, 2016I have been in three separate hotel rooms in the last two weeks. This is not a boast, it is a lament....
By Jerry Pinto October 09, 2016I once walked into the Sophia College Campus and Mother Teresa was walking among a group of students,...
By Jerry Pinto September 25, 2016