Sandip Roy

Dharun Ravi finally wept.

But it had nothing to do with Tyler Clementi, his former roommate who jumped off the George Washington Bridge.

Ravi's tears came when his mother told the court how the last couple of years had been a living hell for him.

His smile and bright eyes...

A couple of years ago I watched two friends, both Indian, get married in a beautiful garden in Santa Cruz, Calif. One was Christian, the other Hindu. So they had two marriage ceremonies. They cut a three-layered wedding cake and walked around a sacred fire and fished for a ring...

Barack Obama, I thought you were different.

It turns out that at 22, you were just like, well any other 22-year-old man.

Obama was "sexually warm" but "emotionally cool" says Genevieve Cook, an early girlfriend in a much touted article in Vanity Fair.

As kiss and tells...

Every dog will have its day. In America that applies even to dead dogs. The presidential election has finally degenerated into a real dog fight.

David A. Graham explains this "canine kabuki" in The Atlantic:

In one corner, the man who 29 years ago transported his dog to...

What would an American presidential election be without that magical Hollywood touch?

Until this point, the mudslinging Republican primary had been looking a little bit like some bad television remake of Grumpy Old (and Middle Aged) Men. Now that the Republicans seem to be grudgingly coalescing around Mitt Romney as...

The gay denial is turning into quite the art form. Let's watch its progression over the years.

Exhibit 1: The 'Sue-Someone's-Pants-Off' Denial

Calling a film star gay can be risky business. Tom Cruise launched two lawsuits in the space of one month back in 2001 to squelch those pesky gay...

Who knew the downward dog has a missionary position?

The New York Times, in all its wisdom, informs us that yoga began as a sex cult.

Now if only I had known this in the ninth standard in Kolkata, I would have paid much more attention during yoga class at...

"America is back," President Barack Obama said in his 2012 State of the Union address. That sounds muscular, very Schwarzenegger-sque. But America's new avatar is a little different from old Uncle Sam.

In 2009 in his first State of the Union, President Barack Obama said "We will rebuild,...

Should yoga come with a statutory warning? Practicing yoga can be injurious to health.

The New York Times seems to think so. "Yoga is for people in good physical condition. Or it can be used therapeutically. It's controversial to say, but it really shouldn't be used for a...

The most bizarre thing about the American presidential election is that everyone who wants to move into the White House spends all their time trying to emphasize how they don't really belong there.

It is probably the only job in the world where prior experience is actually viewed as something...

I admit I don't have Katy Perry's I Kissed a Girl on my iPod. I don't follow Russell Brand's antics much either. But I am still deeply upset about their split.

I just don't think it's fair to Rajasthan.

The reputation of Rajasthan is hanging by a lehenga now, people.

Sometimes you just have to give credit where credit is due.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton could have given some boilerplate remarks about the importance of human rights on International Human Rights Day in Geneva. She could have taken the opportunity to take some swipes at Iran or the Taliban.

When USSR's Leonid Brezhnev kissed East Germany's Erich Honecker in 1979 that was a kiss. When Obama kisses Hu Jintao that's just an ad for Benetton.

It is a comment on history, but without understanding the history.

For starters Brezhnev really kissed Honecker. Communist iron men were...

Adapted from a blog that originally appeared on Firstpost.com.

Charles de Gaulle famously said, "My only international rival is Tintin."

Now Hergé's Tintin will have his own rival -- Spielberg's Tintin.

The (battle)lines are drawn. What should be an homage from one master storyteller to...

The buck stops here.

When Harry Truman had that sign on his desk, he meant that he took ultimate responsibility for every decision.

In 2011 the slogan has turned into "the buck stops now." The United States needs to show the world that it is still Daddy. It still controls...

It's supposed to be an ad about cricket. Two Sri Lankans on safari are egged on by their driver to get off the bus to take pictures of a tiger. When the tiger gets pissed off and rises to its feet, the driver starts reversing and the ad...

This week 22-year-old Bangalore student Malini Murmu hanged herself after her boyfriend Abhishek Dhan broke up with her and then bragged about it on Facebook.

Feeling cool today. Dumped my girlfriend. Happy independence day.

Her devastated parents understandably want someone held accountable.The boyfriend has been booked...

If you are an immigrant in Europe, especially a Muslim one, you are damned if you do and damned if you don't.

"At first, people thought Muslims were behind this," said a Pakistani taxi driver in Oslo when the news of the bomb attack and the murderous shooting...

Let's all give call centers a break.

We've done the sitcom. Thank you NBC. We've done the novel. Thank you, Chetan Bhagat. We've done Outsourced -- the movie. Thank you, John Jeffcoat.

Now we're getting the latest in sabbatical lit -- my...

Move over spelling bee champions, Raj Rajaratnam is here.

Desis in North America are finally making news for something other than Pulitzers, spelling bees or plum positions in the White House. Hedge fund billionaire Raj Rajaratnam's trial, the biggest insider trading trial in years, ended with a guilty...