It was absurd to give MPs a salary of Rs 400 per month in 1954. Were they expected to live on air? For Outlook | September 1, 2001 Under...

Former CEC M.S. Gill on an English summer, lazy flashbacks ... and lots of cricket For Outlook | September 3, 2001 Sitting in the garden...

She was hope for women down there. Her death symbolises victory for oppression. For Outlook | August 13, 2001 Phoolan Devi is dead....

Lives of an inimitable people, documented in inimitable Khushwant style For Outlook | June 25, 2001 If I am not mistaken, Khushwant and...

IN LIGHTER VEIN BY M.S. GILL For The Tribune | February 25, 1986 If you are up at Cambridge you want to go somewhere for the vacation....

For The Tribune | March 21, 1981 In the summer of 1967, my wife and I went for a visit to Lahaul. We thought those high remote valleys,...

For The Tribune | March 6, 1981 It was a wet winter evening in Cambridge. The rain dripped gently on the college lawns. The fog, as T.S....

Published on November 23, 1980 Falling administrative standards continue to cause concern among the public. Efforts have been made from...

Published on November 9, 1980 In the course of my official duties I once had occasion to meet a deputation of unregistered medical...

For The Tribune | November 7, 1980 QUEEN VICTORIA'S MAHARAJA – DULEEP SINGH, 1838-93, by Michael Alexander and Sushila Anand. Vikas, New...

Published on October 26, 1980 Many years ago I was posted as Deputy Commissioner of Lahaul-Spiti. I fell in love with these inner...

For The Tribune He walked into the plush office of a refrigeration company in New Delhi and asked to see the managing director. His...

Published on July 18, 1980 The Orient Express was made famous by Agatha Christie. In the days of the raj the most romantic train on the...

For The Hindustan Times Magazine | July 13, 1980 The qualities claimed for the former Indian Civil Service – the rule of law, a sense...

Published on July 6, 1980 We were sitting in a group with the conversation drifting from one thing to the other. The bank manager...

For The Sunday Tribune | June 8, 1980 WE were sipping iced nimboo-pani with some friends. The conversation was about life at Chandigarh....

Published on May 25, 1980 l first went to England in 1967.Coming from a soldiering family I was besieged with requests to call on old...

Published on April 18, 1980 Possibly the most exclusive Indian club is a worldwide group of Punjabis. Since Punjabis are spread over the...

Published on April 15, 1980 The Punjabi film industry will today receive formal recognition when the State Governor Mr Jaisukhlal Hathi,...

For The Tribune | April 10, 1980 Punjab is a dusty plain a thousand miles from the sea. The only water it knows of are the five sluggish...