The red L and driver Bassa Ram, my saviours on Delhi’s mad roads
Bassa Ram can reverse the car for a mile and a half, squeeze into the tightest parking spots and curse louder and faster than any trucker
By K.C. Verma March 16, 2025
Columns
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- Anuja Chauhan
- Anita Pratap
- Namrata Zakaria
- Navtej Sarna
- Dr Mazda Turel
- K.C. Verma
- Shobhaa De
- Suresh Narayanan
- Shashi Tharoor
- Baijayant 'Jay' Panda
- Mani Shankar Aiyar
- Barkha Dutt
- Amitabh Kant
- Meenakshi Lekhi
- Lakshmy Ramanathan
- Swara Bhasker
- Sachidananda Murthy
- Bibek Debroy
- Jyotiraditya Scindia
- Sanjaya Baru
- Sanjay Manjrekar
- Bose Krishnamachari
- M.K Bhadrakumar
- Vinod Rai
- Ashwini Nachappa
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The Iran nuclear deal is dead. And it is a good thing, writes Jeff Jacoby
By Jeff Jacoby April 10, 2022 -
Case for coalitions
By Marten van den Berg March 21, 2021 -
Innovate and collaborate
By Sanjaya Mariwala March 07, 2021 -
Block buster
By Dr Alok Vinod Kulkarni March 07, 2021 -
The invisible pandemic
By Dr Alok Vinod Kulkarni February 07, 2021 -
Patch work
By Dr Sachin Varma February 15, 2020 -
Growing up without godfathers
By Priyanka Chaturvedi December 21, 2019 -
Fighting it together
By Dr Kishore Kotha September 14, 2019
K.C. Verma
K.C. Verma is former chief of R&AW. He is a retired Indian Police Service officer, and the author of miscellaneous fiction, including ‘A Whiff of Whimsy’
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Budget blues of a different kind
Antics within Parliament are entertaining and the booing and hissing provides variety
By K.C. Verma February 16, 2025
One, two, buckle my shoe!
Either my feet were swelling or the shoes were shrinking
By K.C. Verma February 02, 2025
One supercalifragilisticexpialidocious New Year!
Don’t believe that faster-higher-stronger or that fitter-thinner-holier nonsense
By K.C. Verma January 19, 2025
Great Shaving Tamasha: Creating memories for grandchildren
My grandchildren are deprived of the extravaganzas which enriched my childhood
By K.C. Verma January 05, 2025
Merry Christmas and all that
For forty-odd years now, I have been trying to persuade my wife to have a drink once in a while. This ploy has, however, not worked till now
By K.C. Verma December 22, 2024
What should I do to look more like Superman?
There are many aspects of my childhood that my granddaughter can never reconcile with
By K.C. Verma December 08, 2024
Tiger may be subsisting on peanuts, but it is alive!
Like descendants of nawabs, I rejoice my past connections
By K.C. Verma November 24, 2024
Nobel tolls for Me
My wife believes I deserve the Nobel Peace Prize in my own right
By K.C. Verma October 27, 2024
For God's sake, do something!
It is well known that if a problem can't be solved, one should pray
By K.C. Verma October 13, 2024
Nicking napkins and black magic
Yes, I do look so innocent, but kleptomaniacs don't necessarily have to look like thugs, do they?
By K.C. Verma September 29, 2024
Have you kept track?
The initial irritation is caused by the innumerable reminders to file the income tax return
By K.C. Verma September 15, 2024
Vindictive technology
I discovered the hard way how vengeful technology can be
By K.C. Verma September 01, 2024