In India, the expression “do number ka mal” roughly translated as “number 2 stuff” is often used for underhand dealings and the like. The Palace of Westminster shook as the British newspaper, The Daily Telegraph, about the misuse of the fund meant for expenses for a second home for the Members of Parliament. public reeled from the exposures, artfully doled out in driblets, by

The public outcry has led to the ousting of the Speaker for the first time in 300 years! While “cleaning the moat” simply indicates excesses, a friend called me to say that I had spared the British MPs by not writing about their hiring pornographic movies and billing the expense to the British taxpayers!

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Summer often reminds Stephanians like me of the good times we had and of Rothas’ Nimbu Pani. “There is hardly any nimbu, some sugar and a lot of water in Sukhia’s Nimbu Pani, but we all love it,” said a fellow student, yet the dhaba is rightly a part of college lore.  I wrote a little piece on it which  you might enjoy reading. Please click here to read it, and see some pictures.

Marshal of the Indian Air Force Arjan Singh, DFC, my biography the living icon, has been reviewed by Dr I J Singh for a prominent Canadian-run website called SikhChic.com.

The reviewer, Dr. I. J. Singh, is Professor and Coordinator, Anatomical Sciences, New York University, NY, USA. He is also the author of four books on Sikhism and a prominent voice in the Sikh Diaspora internationally. He had originally penned a review that was published in 2002 in the Calcutta based Sikh Review.
A different readership, and recent events, including the Marshal of the Indian Air Force Arjan Singh, DFC brought the man and his life into prominence again, and Dr I J Singh’s decided to post a revised review for Sikhchic.com.
Please click here to read the review at the SikhChic.com  website.