Wheelchairs and miracles
An American friend invited me to New York to his son’s wedding at about the same time that Shashi Tharoor and others were gallivanting around in those parts
By K.C. Verma June 22, 2025
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The Iran nuclear deal is dead. And it is a good thing, writes Jeff Jacoby
By Jeff Jacoby April 10, 2022 -
Case for coalitions
By Marten van den Berg March 21, 2021 -
Innovate and collaborate
By Sanjaya Mariwala March 07, 2021 -
Block buster
By Dr Alok Vinod Kulkarni March 07, 2021 -
The invisible pandemic
By Dr Alok Vinod Kulkarni February 07, 2021 -
Patch work
By Dr Sachin Varma February 15, 2020 -
Growing up without godfathers
By Priyanka Chaturvedi December 21, 2019 -
Fighting it together
By Dr Kishore Kotha September 14, 2019
K.C. Verma
K.C. Verma is former chief of R&AW. He is a retired Indian Police Service officer, and the author of miscellaneous fiction, including ‘A Whiff of Whimsy’
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A precious problem that I faced
When we moved, our books overflowed from the shelves
By K.C. Verma June 08, 2025
Guess what is coming for dinner
Sadly, I am always denied my beauty sleep by the endless tossing and turning of the missus
By K.C. Verma May 25, 2025
IPL is not cricket
IPL has commodified not just the game of cricket but the players as well, observed the missus
By K.C. Verma May 11, 2025
Artificial intelligence vs natural stupidity: K.C. Verma
If AI is so bloody intelligent, it should become self-aware and be able to itself overcome all ethical dilemmas.
By K.C. Verma April 13, 2025
Born to die
We certainly live in an evanescent age now, in which nothing lasts
By K.C. Verma March 30, 2025
The red L and driver Bassa Ram, my saviours on Delhi’s mad roads
Bassa Ram can reverse the car for a mile and a half, squeeze into the tightest parking spots and curse louder and faster than any trucker
By K.C. Verma March 16, 2025
Budget blues of a different kind
Antics within Parliament are entertaining and the booing and hissing provides variety
By K.C. Verma February 16, 2025
One, two, buckle my shoe!
Either my feet were swelling or the shoes were shrinking
By K.C. Verma February 02, 2025
One supercalifragilisticexpialidocious New Year!
Don’t believe that faster-higher-stronger or that fitter-thinner-holier nonsense
By K.C. Verma January 19, 2025
Great Shaving Tamasha: Creating memories for grandchildren
My grandchildren are deprived of the extravaganzas which enriched my childhood
By K.C. Verma January 05, 2025
Merry Christmas and all that
For forty-odd years now, I have been trying to persuade my wife to have a drink once in a while. This ploy has, however, not worked till now
By K.C. Verma December 22, 2024
What should I do to look more like Superman?
There are many aspects of my childhood that my granddaughter can never reconcile with
By K.C. Verma December 08, 2024