The Bombay-Pune Expressway, a spanking, modern, six-lane highway will, when completed, be India's first truly international road constructed on the lines of the autobahn or the turnpike.

We are neither prepared to deal with dubious companies nor have the mechanism for swift investigation. What's more we don't even have a culture, which imposes stringent, debilitating and deterrent punishment on wrong doers.

The existence of glass ceilings in the corporate sector has been extensively researched and documented and there is no need to reiterate the fact. Women are also, usually paid less then men for the same jobs and are grossly under-represented at the top of the corporate pyramid.

The ambitious women usually work twice as hard to make up the handicap of being usually left out of the chummy male bonding that takes place over liquor.

While readers know that advertisements keep the product cost low, they still buy a newspaper for its editorial content and not for its advertisements.

Even in private e-mail groups, it is journalists who seem outraged, anguished and disheartened at what has been described as the 'prostitution' of news; the reader response is always lukewarm.

The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear.

It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter.

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see.

The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.