Postcards

Comedy and humour is a refreshing lemonade one likes to have after a tiring and dry day. What would you say if this comes in the form of a television…

February 4, 2013 · 3 min read

A Christmas letter to Santa from our corner of the world — on what children really want, what adults have forgotten, and the milk and cookies on the counter.

December 13, 2011 · 1 min read

From authority to irony and back: the long, strange fashion cycle of the mustache — why it fell out of style in the 1990s and how it crept back.

October 13, 2011 · 1 min read

…He has gotten up and exited from the gathering, and it’s as though one of the lights in our family room has been snuffed out …

October 11, 2011 · 4 min read

From the undeciphered Indus script to Brahmi, Devanagari, Tamil, and Bengali — how India's writing systems evolved over four thousand years.

September 2, 2011 · 2 min read

A reader's review of Jean Sasson's 'Princess' — the ghostwritten story of Princess Sultana and the appalling treatment of women in Saudi Arabia.

August 1, 2011 · 4 min read

When life throws peaches at you, you expect strawberries instead. This was the dilemma that haunted me right from the beginning of my career. Technical…

June 21, 2011 · 1 min read

In praise of the rain check day: grey skies, cancelled plans, and the rare gift of unstructured time. Why bad weather restores the mind.

February 15, 2011 · 1 min read

Laneway street art, flat whites, and 100,000 voices at the MCG: a travel postcard from Melbourne, the city that needs no spotlight.

February 6, 2011 · 1 min read