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Rash promises of Covid: They will not be forgotten and there will be an unhappy reckoning one day
July 7, 2020, 2:00 AM IST
Now that we are inseparable as couples by the dictate of Covid and often hard placed to keep the conversation flowing we husbands tend to fill in the silences by making either dangerous promises or…
July 7, 2020, 2:00 AM IST
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Adult pairings: A little mumbo jumbo to make up for the loss of lovey dovey and cuddly wuddly
June 23, 2020, 2:00 AM IST
Higgeldy piggeldy. Hoity toity. Hanky panky. Never know which is which. It would probably be easy peasy if Tweedledee and Tweedledum had some identifiable features so you could tell them apart. Like when you graduate…
June 23, 2020, 2:00 AM IST
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The naming game: Once upon a time babies were Sita, Geeta, Arjun, Ashok. Today they are being christened Covid
June 9, 2020, 2:00 AM IST
I have just read of a baby being christened Covid and i wonder what sort of parents would do this. There is the baby two days old and gurgling in its crib, innocent and helpless,…
June 9, 2020, 2:00 AM IST
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Together 24/7: And now our love needs a break from this incessant companionship
May 26, 2020, 2:00 AM IST
We were home enjoying the 52nd consecutive day of Covid-19 togetherness when i said, this is funny, wife says to husband, i am angry with you. Husband reflects for a moment and says, again or…
May 26, 2020, 2:00 AM IST
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When the gloves are off: Dr Kildare and Dr House really have a head start in bouts with latex
May 12, 2020, 2:05 AM IST
Have you ever placed gloves in the glove compartment of your car? Love the way we still call it that and all it has are old bills and supposedly the car registration, which can never…
May 12, 2020, 2:05 AM IST
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Covid vs Cupid: It’s no contest. Even the intimate date at the movies is undergoing complete redesign
April 28, 2020, 2:00 AM IST
Imagine Cupid getting his arrows blunted in a post-Covid world. There is this young lovelorn swain on his first date and he is all dressed up to kill, a song on his lips and all…
April 28, 2020, 2:00 AM IST
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Withdrawal symptoms: What I would give to be on an airplane to anywhere at all
April 14, 2020, 2:00 AM IST
I am into flight withdrawal. What i would give to be on a plane to anywhere. And if a mother with a baby sat by me and the baby cried it would be like water…
April 14, 2020, 2:00 AM IST
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Bananas won’t hack it: When it comes to dramatically changing our lifestyle to fight the corona
March 31, 2020, 2:00 AM IST
It is almost offensive to make someone laugh when they are in quarantine and facing the worst calamity the world has ever seen. I started off by saying that while Covid-19 has dramatically changed our…
March 31, 2020, 2:00 AM IST
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Desis vs the virus: Over sanitisation has weakened the phoren wbcs while for ours, it’s just another day at the office
March 17, 2020, 2:00 AM IST
There is no comedy in the Covid-19 virus crisis and you keep imagining you will wake up and it will be a bad dream or one of those B grade movies grinding to an end…
March 17, 2020, 2:00 AM IST
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I am a wrong timer: So playing the market, dealing in property, it is all a losing proposition
March 3, 2020, 2:09 AM IST
Have you noticed how things that happen to you do not happen to others. Like i have friends in the real estate business who buy and sell houses and make huge mounds of profit. Then…
March 3, 2020, 2:09 AM IST
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Has anyone seen my keys? They are Houdini’s cousins and disappear in direct proportion to their being needed
February 18, 2020, 2:00 AM IST
People have noble thoughts. Thoughts that are designed to enhance the human experience. They lie in bed dreaming of changing the world. I did that at one time but then realised the world wasn’t going…
February 18, 2020, 2:00 AM IST
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Can’t cut the clutter: What happens when you drown in chipped cut-glasses, and semi-used shoes like burnt out boats
February 4, 2020, 4:00 AM IST
Every now and then people have garage sales even though they do not have a garage. This exercise is conducted with great resolve and intent to clear up the clutter in the house. Broken lamps…
February 4, 2020, 4:00 AM IST
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The buddy business: It is an expanding enterprise that thrives on the rampant hostility of the world
January 21, 2020, 2:00 AM IST
Have you noticed how nearly everything you buy these days is marketed as user friendly? That is the key phrase. This trend underscores the fact that things were not friendly sometime back, all this affection…
January 21, 2020, 2:00 AM IST
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Foxy fake foods: But if the tofu scramble tastes like real eggs why not just eat eggs, the hens wouldn’t mind
January 7, 2020, 2:00 AM IST
So we are at this brunch and the hostess is passing around her spiced scrambled eggs Indian style (andey ki bhurji) and everyone is going rapturous over it and then she says, surrpriiiise, it isn’t…
January 7, 2020, 2:00 AM IST
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Admit you are a robot: Unfortunately, that bot catcher on the internet sometimes filters out humans too
December 24, 2019, 2:00 AM IST
Every now and again you’re on the internet filling in some form and you’re asked if you’re a robot. Now, it always strikes me as a redundant question because if i was going to be…
December 24, 2019, 2:00 AM IST
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Hit by the flu: Although what a winding road it was to get hit, officially hit
December 10, 2019, 2:00 AM IST
When we were kids we got flu and we went to the doctor and he said, say aaaah and he tapped our chest and bobbed the ’scope on the back, you gave him a deep…
December 10, 2019, 2:00 AM IST
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Uncle woes: Riveting tales about when Rs 10 was the dinner bill for two, don’t rivet the young ones
November 26, 2019, 2:00 AM IST
You know that time has done the dirty on you when you sound like your parents and their parents as you go about switching off lights and other sundry appliances and talking about money growing…
November 26, 2019, 2:00 AM IST
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A bruised Cupid: What happens when couples in their chill fall upon best friends to play referee
November 12, 2019, 2:00 AM IST
Marital bliss is all very fine and we strive to seek and to behold but now and then it kind of falls apart and the bliss becomes a miss. When that happens couples in their…
November 12, 2019, 2:00 AM IST
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My flight of fancy: When children run riot on a plane, and parents look indulgently on
October 29, 2019, 2:07 AM IST
If there was an airline that had a separate cabin for kids and mums with babies i would take it. i have nothing against babies having been one myself. But like many of you i…
October 29, 2019, 2:07 AM IST
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Mind of their own: The AC, the car, keys, plumbing, you think of them all as inanimate at your peril
October 15, 2019, 2:00 AM IST
So your AC has stopped functioning and the repair people have fetched up and now they shovel heaps of hope onto you that they will take it away and they will check it out and it…
October 15, 2019, 2:00 AM IST
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