Dear all,

If I am to believe the reports on television and newspaper these past few days - never a good idea, I know -Ukip is now a force to be reckoned with. Of course, these are local elections, observers quip, and they will never make it to...

It affords me no pleasure to have to write yet again about religion and gay rights. Indeed, I hold that religion should be restricted to consenting adults in private. But, when religious leaders, especially the monotheistic ones, won't shut up about it, peddling prejudiced myths about how gay rights, especially...

Justin Welby will be officially appointed as the Archbishop of Canterbury later today. You will forgive me if I don't use the appellation 'Most Reverend', as I find it hard to revere a man whose pronouncements seem steeped in hypocrisy. A "stunning" display of this can be heard in his...

The Pope is resigning. Happy days for every news organisation around the world with a website, or a twenty-four hour news channel. This will give them enough fodder till the white smoke, arising from the chimney of the Vatican Palace, dissolves into the air around St. Peter's Square. The

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Cinema, that modern mirror of human life, has been somewhat hopeless when it comes to portraying love between members of the same sex. Our Eric Rohmer is yet to be visible. Worse still, most films, the predominant theme of which be, faute de mieux, gay love, easily fall into...

On the eve of the opening ceremony of the London Olympics, if I may conjoin those last two words without inviting the wrath of the International Olympics Committee, every newspaper, magazine, radio station and television channel is apt to tell us how the world is set to judge the remarkable...

Two years ago, I penned an article for the Guardian, in which I described how I was subjected to a racist attack in a night-bus in London, and how it cost me my faith in London. My view of London and of Londoners have softened a bit since...

When Stonewall first announced of its intention to run its now iconic slogan - 'Some people are gay. Get over it.' - over a thousand buses in London, I had doubts as to its merits and intentions. Wouldn't it be better, I thought, to actually run a more engaging and...

In a wonderful article published some time ago in the Atlantic, Nicholas Carr asked the provocative question: Is Google making us stupid? Although it resulted in a long debate amidst academic and media circles across both sides of the pond, there are no visible signs so far that people took...

This past fortnight, I have been reminded an awful lot of Yes, Prime Minister and its many witticisms. Two in particular are worth recalling here. One, arguably the most famous, is Jim Hacker's forensic analysis of British newspapers and the prejudices of their readers to which they pander....