Come with me as I go about joining the dots, so you don’t have to. I'm a journalist, born and bred in India and of US/UK nationality, with years of experience interpreting across cultures around the world. (The photo above is with British troops on the streets of a city in southern Iraq.) What I now write aims to clarify something unseen in our turning world, cut through the clatter of churnalism, or, if nothing else, offer a smorgasbord of conversation starters for every occasion.