This Weekend

What a very British Brexit this is turning out to be. A referendum has turned into a neverendum, and here we are. A complete and utter mess. People who have...

An achievement is when we push ourselves beyond the everyday. Michelangelo and Da Vinci and Marie Curie and Sir Ranulph Fiennes. The list goes on. What...

On December 21, 1998, PanAm flight 103 exploded over the skies of Lockerbie, a small town near Scotland’s border with England. Some 270 people died,...

Let’s talk about skin colour. Does it matter? It shouldn’t, but it does, to many of us. This is a sensitive topic, with those who see themselves as too...

Yesterday, after my mother’s constant nagging, I decided to go to the grocery store and pick up her favourite chocolates. And this was just a simple...

When Universal Studios opened its massive theme park, Islands of Adventure, back in 1998, I was one of 300 invited guests who travelled there ahead of the...

Eid is just around the corner, and both Omanis and expats alike are gearing up for what promises to be an auspicious, memorable celebration in Oman. While...

I first encountered the word ‘prepone’ while working in India. My immediate reaction was to point out that it is not a word, even though I immediately...

My three-year-old daughter is a wanderer. An explorer, with a head full of dinosaurs and jungles and adventure, wearing her backpack to wade through two...

Watch the Wimbledon final, then tell me books are more important than sport . Roger Federer makes me believe in the future. Djokovic too. And the entire...