Over the last few days one has been inundated with details about the weddings of Shilpa Shetty and Eesha Koppikar.  What they and their grooms wore, who designed their outfits, where they shopped, where they will go on their honeymoon.  When they return, presumably, there will be stories about the new homes, followed by speculations [...]

I spent last week traveling through UP and Bihar, those wonderful states where people live their lives on their own terms. Global economic recession? Bandwidth overdrive? Obama? Health food? Pah. Lives are unchanged. The poor are still focused on their next meal and visits to the annual mela, the middle class still take small [...]