The Amazing R K Laxman: A Friend Remembers

'It was amazing to see the speed with which the lines flowed from his pen!' remembers Ambassador Placido P D'Souza. In the early 1950s, when I was in college in Pune, my daily nourishment in terms......

All The Best, Signed Barack!

Placido P D'Souza is a man of many talents: India's former high commissioner to Kenya is a fine thinker, a skilled writer, a talented artist.A few years ago, Ambassador D'Souza, who now lives in......

Scarlett death: Beach shack worker gets 10 yrs jail

Eleven years after the bruised body of British teenager Scarlett Eden Keeling was found on Goa's Anjuna beach, the Bombay high court on Friday sentenced a shack worker to 10 years' rigorous......

Scarlett's kin await CBI nod for her last rites

Three years after the mysterious death of Scarlett Keeling on a Goa beach, the body of the British teenager is still lying in a mortuary in the UK as her family awaits a CBI nod for her last rites.......

London Mayor steals show at opera house Olympic ceremony

It's not often that Placido Domingo is upstaged at the Royal Opera House. Yet flamboyant London Mayor Boris Johnson managed to pull it off at a star-studded Olympic gala on Monday night. Opera......