Poetry as Socio-proctology

Where saying 'toss for it' is what establishes Talmud's bona fides We dance away Truth's dowry like Hippocleides Yet the t...

Was Partition inevitable? Yes- so long as Gandhi was alive. Why? He had always insisted that his Party, and his Party alone, should decide I...

Tim Sommers writes in 3Quarks  What do you call a Republican who smokes dope? A libertarian. Old joke. I mean, marijuana is not even illegal...

Sir Richard Sorabji, in the course of memorializing his Aunty, Cornelia, hits upon a 'moral principle' which, he believes would not ...

I don't always recall that little four eyed dog which suddenly barked as we parted Nor all the bleakness of the years which went by till...

Cornelia Sorabji, the first female Indian lawyer, was a harsh critic of Gandhi. The Brits funded her tour of America where she said nasty th...