All The Best, Signed Barack!

Placido P D'Souza is a man of many talents: India's former high commissioner to Kenya is a fine thinker, a skilled writer, a talented artist.A few years ago, Ambassador D'Souza, who now lives in......

Scarlett death: Beach shack worker gets 10 yrs jail

Eleven years after the bruised body of British teenager Scarlett Eden Keeling was found on Goa's Anjuna beach, the Bombay high court on Friday sentenced a shack worker to 10 years' rigorous......

Scarlett's mother may face defamation charges

Two Goa youths, who are accused in the death of British teenager Scarlett Eden, may file a defamation suit against her mother Fiona Mackeown. "My clients are exploring the possibility of filing a......

The Amazing R K Laxman: A Friend Remembers

'It was amazing to see the speed with which the lines flowed from his pen!' remembers Ambassador Placido P D'Souza. In the early 1950s, when I was in college in Pune, my daily nourishment in terms......