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Politicians as new zamindars
January 28, 2013, 10:15 AM IST
No one – least of all the gentle Dr Singh himself – took very seriously Mamatadi’s allegedly misquoted remark that if the Centre wouldn’t bail Bengal out of its debt trap she might have to…
January 28, 2013, 10:15 AM IST
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Time pass
January 24, 2013, 10:09 PM IST
Watches have become ‘uncool’ – and so has punctuality The other day i was invited to an excellence awards ceremony hosted by a renowned Swiss watch-making company. The invite intrigued me for two reasons. The…
January 24, 2013, 10:09 PM IST
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Age-old question
January 22, 2013, 9:23 PM IST
When does a ‘juvenile’ stop being ‘juvenile’? When can we be held legally responsible for our actions? These questions have gained crucial topicality following the Nirbhaya case in which the assailant said to have been…
January 22, 2013, 9:23 PM IST
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Go to extremes
January 17, 2013, 10:28 PM IST
The climate is definitely changing, meteorologically as well as politically.
January 17, 2013, 10:28 PM IST
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Heart of the matter
January 16, 2013, 10:50 AM IST
I went for the medical test I had to pass in order to get my first job, with an as yet-unlaunched youth magazine under the editorship of Desmond Doig, of the Statesman newspaper in Calcutta….
January 16, 2013, 10:50 AM IST
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For a change
January 15, 2013, 9:58 PM IST
In a remark directed at Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee – the most vociferous opponent of FDI in retail and of economic reforms in general – PM Manmohan Singh mentioned “outdated ideologies” that were holding India…
January 15, 2013, 9:58 PM IST
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When I got my first job
January 15, 2013, 10:11 AM IST
“You want a job?” said my friend Dubby on the phone. It was 1966. Dubby and I had just passed our BA exams from St Xavier’s College, Calcutta. Dubby had got a job in the …
January 15, 2013, 10:11 AM IST
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The parable of the Bad Samaritan
January 14, 2013, 11:28 AM IST
How many times must a man turn his head/ And pretend he just doesn’t see?/ The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind,/ The answer is blowin’ in the wind. Bob Dylan Asked by…
January 14, 2013, 11:28 AM IST
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Weigh of the world
January 14, 2013, 11:24 AM IST
A heavier kilogram might make our political heavyweights lighter in comparison. At the tail end of the festive season, which traditionally is replete with a lot of good things to eat and drink, not a…
January 14, 2013, 11:24 AM IST
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Sita rekha
January 10, 2013, 9:47 PM IST
Would-be Ravanas beware — cross this line at your own risk In the face of international condemnation that it isn’t doing enough to protect women, the government responded to the rising incidence of gender crime…
January 10, 2013, 9:47 PM IST
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A real cop-out
January 8, 2013, 9:49 PM IST
Where are all the so-called ‘moral police’ when rape takes place? Where are our so-called ‘moral police’ when they are most needed? When women are being attacked and raped? Our regular, official police are, understandably,…
January 8, 2013, 9:49 PM IST
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Hatred raises our violence quotient
January 7, 2013, 11:21 AM IST
If more evidence were needed, the unspeakably savage rape and torture of a 23-year-old girl in Delhi has shown that India has what might be called a very high Violence Quotient (VQ), particularly directed at…
January 7, 2013, 11:21 AM IST
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In so many words
January 3, 2013, 11:00 PM IST
If a large vocabulary is a sign of IQ, where does this leave the Indian politician?
January 3, 2013, 11:00 PM IST
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Shakti shrugged
January 1, 2013, 10:18 PM IST
If women went on strike the country would come to a halt. How best to keep burning through the New Year the flame lit by the tragic fate of the 23-year-old girl appropriately named Nirbhaya…
January 1, 2013, 10:18 PM IST
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Mera Bharat mayhem
December 31, 2012, 3:02 PM IST
Like other communities around the country, the National Media Centre (NMC), the co-operative housing society in Gurgaon where I live, shared the nationwide grief over the tragic death of the young woman appropriately named Nirbhaya…
December 31, 2012, 3:02 PM IST
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‘Dented, painted’ holy cows
December 29, 2012, 9:53 AM IST
Author and feminist Germaine Greer – whom Abhijit Mukherjee might well have described as the archetype of the ‘dented, painted’ feminine activist – remarked that India worships both the sacred cow and the woman, and…
December 29, 2012, 9:53 AM IST
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Going places
December 27, 2012, 10:16 PM IST
How our VVIPs will be bringing in the New Year
December 27, 2012, 10:16 PM IST
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State vs people
December 25, 2012, 8:52 PM IST
Exploding tear gas shells, water cannons, men in uniform beating up men, women and children, the jackboot of brute authority stamping down on democratic protest Tahrir Square, Cairo, where the ‘Arab Spring’ has become bitter…
December 25, 2012, 8:52 PM IST
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Chronic rape: Brutal assaults on women are symptoms of a deeper disease
December 20, 2012, 10:57 PM IST
Should rapists be hanged? Should they be surgically or chemically castrated so that they can never commit such atrocities again? These and similar questions are being raised in the emotionally-surcharged aftermath of the horrifying case…
December 20, 2012, 10:57 PM IST
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Divided lobby
December 18, 2012, 10:01 PM IST
Winning friends and inducing people is part and parcel of democracy Has Walmart ‘induced’ Indian politicians to favour FDI in retail? Perhaps. But in the meantime Indian companies – including Reliance Industries, Tata Sons, Ranbaxy…
December 18, 2012, 10:01 PM IST
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