“India is a little different from the developed world because disciplin...” — Sucheta Dalal Quote

India is a little different from the developed world because discipline of any kind is alien to us. Along with the right to spit in public, we will resist all attempts to discipline our driving. As pedestrians, we will cross any road at will, and as cops, we will view traffic offences as business opportunities.

Putting an end to usurious rates is not going to be as simple as asking banks to lay down internal guidelines, policies and procedures.

Mobile users happily suffer bad connections, dropped calls, inaccessible networks and pay higher charges for services that would have caused endless annoyance on a fixed line.

For some reason most Indians seem to think that it is the job of the media to fight corruption and their own role is restricted to sighing over their newspaper, or debates on the local train as they commute to work.

How do you live with one person for 13 years and another for eight and find both as alien as strangers?

What are you gonna do, talk the alien to death?

On our Southern border, Joe Biden has allowed hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of illegal aliens into our country.

I get recognized pretty much wherever I go now which is totally alien.

I feel trapped in my body. I want to be like like Scarlett Johansson in 'Lucy,' when she unlocks everything within her - I want to do that. I want to be the alien in 'Arrival' - a spitty, infinite-time-loop creature.