Jug Suraiya

Columnist at The Times of India

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Articles

Toothpaste India

5 days ago | timesofindia.indiatimes.com | Jug Suraiya

Wherever in the world we go, it feels like home onlyOn a street in Turin, a young man walked past me talking on his cell phone, and I suddenly felt a sense of spatial displacement, of not knowing where I was. Because the young man was speaking in Punjabi, making me think for a moment that I was back in India instead of in Italy. It happens to us all the time. Wherever we Indians travel, we come across other Indians who are residents of the place we’re visiting.
Hyphen-hype

1 week ago | timesofindia.indiatimes.com | Jug Suraiya

The weaponisation of a commonly used mark of punctuation, and how best to counter it The minister of Punctuation, Propaganda, and Fake News was addressing his aides and assorted flunkies. There is good news and there is bad news, said the minister. First, the good news. The good news is that our Operation Hyphen worked even better than we anticipated.
Safeguarding every bite: The crucial role of World Food Safety Day

1 week ago | foodsafety.einnews.com | Sadhana Kala |Dia Mirza |Bachi Karkaria |Jug Suraiya

Sadhana Kala Dr (Prof) Sadhana Kala is a USA-trained robotic & laparoscopic surgeon, Uppsala University, Sweden, trained fertility specialist, and ‘National Icon Endoscopic Surgeon' of India. University topper and winner of several gold and silver medals and Certificates of Honor and the unique ‘Distinction’ in medicine in medical college, she is the youngest-ever Professor in any medical college anywhere, and the only-ever gynec Hon Consultant to the Army, Navy and Air Force.
La Dolce Vita

1 week ago | timesofindia.indiatimes.com | Jug Suraiya

Among the many things Indians and Italians have in common is a taste for the sweet lifeIn Torino, Italy, with its panoramic piazzas and its graciously galleried porticos, Bunny and I are once again struck by the many affinities shared between Indians and Italians.
Best of enemies

2 weeks ago | timesofindia.indiatimes.com | Jug Suraiya

It’s only within the confines of the subcontinent that Pakistan and India engage in conflict No, no, please! How can I accept money from you? This is my home and you are a guest here. I can’t take money from a guest. The speaker was a Washington DC taxi driver, a middle-aged migrant from Lahore who had settled in US years ago. Bunny and I had been to one of the Smithsonian museums, those wonderful repositories of art and culture that are a hallmark of the city.
Talk the talk

2 weeks ago | timesofindia.indiatimes.com | Jug Suraiya

The globalisation of English has taken a lot of the foreignness out of foreign travelBunny and I are in Torino, Italy. And Bunny is eager to try out the conversational Italian she has picked up through assiduous practice on the Duolingo app on her cell phone. We go for a morning coffee to Caffe Mulassano, the 118-year-old establishment that looks like what the inside of an antique jewel box should look like, all burnished gleam and gilded glow.
Phoney business

3 weeks ago | timesofindia.indiatimes.com | Jug Suraiya

It might be spam, hoax, or fraud, but we’re always at our phones’ beck and call If you’re reading this column, chances are that before you finish your cellphone will ring, demanding an immediate response. Should you answer or decline the call?
Doing gupshup

3 weeks ago | timesofindia.indiatimes.com | Jug Suraiya

Why foreign pipples cutting jokes about how we are telling like that only? No doubt one foreigner putting up in Amsterdam itself, having a desi missus who has learnt him about how we are doing gupshup, put it on social media like a bullet to cut jokes about us for timepass. Mind it, we can also cut jokes about foreign pipples.
Hidden dragon

4 weeks ago | timesofindia.indiatimes.com | Jug Suraiya

Could India and Pakistan be unwitting pieces in a devious game of Chinese chequers? Two Chinese generals, Mi and Yu, congratulating themselves on the success of their Operation Springing Tiger. Mi: Even if I do say it myself, our secret plan worked out very well. In fact, it worked out even better than I had hoped it would. Yu: It certainly did, didn’t it? All thanks to the predictable actions and reactions of the two players who played our game without even knowing it.
The other Pakistan

1 month ago | timesofindia.indiatimes.com | Jug Suraiya

There is a different country within the country which is our hostile neighbourI haven’t met Hasan for many years, but I’m sure he lives in the other Pakistan. Bunny and I first met Hasan in Calcutta in the 1970s. He lived in Dhaka in East Pakistan, and would visit Calcutta for medical checks, and to shop in the city’s New Market. He had a dry wit that made him an engaging conversationalist, and we spent many engaging evenings together.