Your First Lay
Of the free games included with Windows, none is more treacherous than Spider Solitaire. In the second installment of a new series, the master sets the tutelage in motion.
Pasha Malla
The Opening Gambit
In the pantheon of free computer games included with Windows, one strikes fear into the hearts of competitors: Spider Solitaire. In the first installment of a new series, the student addresses the master.
Does He Love You?
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. Following our popular guide regarding girls, how to know if the ideal man digs you or not.
How to Go Caroling
'Tis the season to be jolly, all over the cul-de-sac, on your neighbors' porches, against your neighbors' most fervent holiday wishes.
Where Amazing Happens
The current NBA playoffs—including the elderly, surprising Celtics—are offering up some record-breaking basketball. From 2008, an ode to professional players, including Kevin Garnett and friends, and why pro ball is the best ball of all.
5:20 to Jaipur
What does it say about you if one of the most notable themes of your travel tales is the way you kept breaking out into hysterical laughter?
Good Morning
On the way home to Canada, Pasha Malla struggles to focus on India’s future even as one of its own children wails in his ear. The conclusion of his travel diary.
Lessons in Humility
In a flying trip to Bombay, our author encounters the ghost of Gandhi and considers how the late leader's values intersect with those of today's hard-charging India. The next installment of his travel journal.
Once More, With Feeling
Some call Wes Anderson’s new movie, “The Darjeeling Limited,” mounting evidence of the filmmaker’s racism—others, of his inability to make a decent film.
Making It
A visit to the technology hub that is Bangalore reveals a modern city with vibrant nightlife and a surprisingly literary police force, during the latest stop in this travelogue.