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Now that Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has taken the unilateral decision to ban consumption and sale of alcohol in Bihar, a promise he made earlier to appease the women vote bank despite the loss of over Rs. 5,000 crore (by some estimate) to the state exchequer in various form of taxes, it is time for this 'Man with a Plan' to introduce a few more bans to level the field for all.

We Indians have the thinnest skins in the world. We are very easily offended while at the same time too trigger-happy when it comes to insulting others. Lack of understanding of nuances and subtleties only compound the matter.

Music, who doesn't like it! There are all kinds of music. Indian classical, Indian filmi, western bands and groups, Italian songs and operas, bhajans, hymns – and hundreds, if not thousands, of other kinds of music and songs.

Here is an advice for Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi – please don't quit your day job. You make a horrible politician! It's just that simple.

Wait, Mr. Gandhi doesn't have a day job like us mere mortals. He was born on the third base with a silver spoon in his mouth but apparently, he thinks he hit a triple.

Pope Francis, the 266th and the current Pope of the Catholic Church, who arrived in the United States on September 24, 2015 on a six-day visit, has grabbed the attention of millions of people who are not just Catholics but also by those who represent a wide array of denominations within Christianity and even non-Christian people living in the United States.

World's biggest carnival barker and billionaire Donald Trump, who could arguably be compared to Auric Goldfinger (played brilliantly by Gert Fröbe) in Ian Fleming's James Bond saga 'Goldfinger' because of his obvious desire to dominate the world, is under fire for his failure to shut up an obvious bigot who, during a Trump town hall meeting at Rochester, New Hampshire on Sept. 17, asked him when the US was going to get rid of the Muslims.

Have you ever wondered how an Indian politician, when caught by the law and is sent to jail, suddenly develops chest pain? Of course you have! Who in the sane mind hasn't?

You know it is election time when a politician suddenly wakes up to something that some people have been saying for quite some time. No, it's not epiphany; it's simply known as politicking. Or, in layman's terms, just pandering to a particular voting demographic.