Page 5 - Mitali Saran

Same strokes for different folks

No democracy likes a government supervising its dinner plate or vetting its wardrobe. And it positively hates a government peering into its bedroom or down its pants

Mitali Saran: Above this sceptred sway

On smoking (Part 591)

Mitali Saran: How to lose friends and alienate people

Family can be freighted with baggage; romantic partners may come and go; but friends are the enduring furniture of our world

Period piece

Menstrual cups are comfortable, easy to maintain, re-usable, cheaper and more environment friendly

Mitali Saran: Education is more than religious training

In the event of an Emergency

Mitali Saran: The luck of the Irish?

Mitali Saran: Sentenced to life

Mitali Saran: One year on

Footnote

The best way to deal with inexplicable physical ailments is to go with the theory that most are self-limiting and can be ignored away

The diary of a traditional Indian wife

Odd thing: Parliament says this marital rape thing doesn't apply in India, but official reports say that 97 per cent of women are raped by people they know and intimate partners. Hmm. But that means…

Mitali Saran: Bodies at work

Hands off my Internet

Mitali Saran: The nose on your face

Mitali Saran: No smoke without study

As far as I can tell, the only foolproof way of getting someone to quit is to let them smoke their lungs out until they feel the cold breath of mortality on the backs of their necks

Mitali Saran: The human factor

Diving Miss Daisy

Suddenly I was in a blessed silence broken only by my own breath, in a kaleidoscopic ballet of form and colour lit by lacy bars of sunlight. There were tiny orange-and-blue fish and big bright yellow

Mitali Saran: The documentary wars

India's Daughter looks at sexual violence, and the movement against sexual violence, through the lens of the Nirbhaya gangrape case

Union Budget 2015, an analysis

Whenever Budget time rolls around I feel I must make one for myself, but am always defeated by economic instincts hardwired by decades of evolution