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Apocalypse now – or never?
December 15, 2012, 10:40 AM IST
Why do doomsday scenarios enjoy such ghoulish popularity? Jug Suraiya suggests some tongue-in-cheek answers Have you stocked up on your emergency supplies of tinned food, dry cell batteries, kerosene for your primus stove, and, oh…
December 15, 2012, 10:40 AM IST
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Mamata’s MA packs a punch
December 15, 2012, 10:38 AM IST
If further proof were needed that the Indian polity is fighting fit, in more ways than one, it was supplied earlier this week when CPM and Trinamool MLAs slugged it out with each other in…
December 15, 2012, 10:38 AM IST
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Andy capped
December 13, 2012, 9:46 PM IST
How to outsmart the smartest of smartphones. Bunny recently outsmarted a smartphone. We’d heard of smartphones. Like we’d heard of flying saucers, and of the giant Hadron collider which scientists have been using to discover…
December 13, 2012, 9:46 PM IST
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Have party, don’t pay
December 11, 2012, 9:56 PM IST
Fed up with paying a large part of income – as much as 30%+, in the highest bracket – as income tax to a government that does nothing in return in terms of providing even…
December 11, 2012, 9:56 PM IST
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Sounds of silence
December 6, 2012, 11:12 PM IST
Following several cases of people in various parts of the country being sent to jail because of comments they had either made, or even just approved of, on social networking sites, JV sought an interview…
December 6, 2012, 11:12 PM IST
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Bank on it
December 4, 2012, 10:08 PM IST
Cash-for-subsidies scheme will plug leakages but not loopholes
December 4, 2012, 10:08 PM IST
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The dancing Sufi masters
December 3, 2012, 10:10 AM IST
I found myself on a strange planet, different from Earth. Ladakh is often described as having a lunar landscape. What I was looking at – domes and castles and towers, built not by human hands…
December 3, 2012, 10:10 AM IST
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Democracy AAP ki hai
December 1, 2012, 9:54 AM IST
The launching of Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party – which, appropriately enough, shortens to the acronym AAP – seems to have ruffled several political feathers, not least because of its name. AAP’s declared manifesto to…
December 1, 2012, 9:54 AM IST
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The spitting image of NaMo
December 1, 2012, 9:52 AM IST
Gujarat CM Narendra Modi has long known how to use his own variant of what economists call the ‘multiplier effect’ to enhance his image. During the 2007 assembly elections in the state, NaMo as he…
December 1, 2012, 9:52 AM IST
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What’s for launch?
November 29, 2012, 10:17 PM IST
The reading habit is dead and buried, but book releases are Page 3 events The doorbell rings. It is the courier, who hands me an envelope. I get two kinds of mail. One comprises unpaid…
November 29, 2012, 10:17 PM IST
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The art of spirituality
November 29, 2012, 10:58 AM IST
A Sai Baba devotee once said to me, “Being an atheist, you don’t believe in religion, do you?” I replied that to me religion was a form of poetic expression, a metaphor that tried to…
November 29, 2012, 10:58 AM IST
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Lethal justice
November 27, 2012, 9:05 PM IST
In a democracy, all of us are joint endorsers of the death penalty After the execution of Ajmal Kasab, a relative of a 26/11 victim was quoted as saying that, though the law did not…
November 27, 2012, 9:05 PM IST
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Horror movies
November 22, 2012, 9:59 PM IST
The other day i went to see a movie, an action thriller. There were car chases, and gun battles, and martial arts fisticuffs. But what really made the movie suspenseful was that every time someone…
November 22, 2012, 9:59 PM IST
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Mortal stakes
November 20, 2012, 10:14 PM IST
Is your life your own, or it is ‘owned’ by someone or something else, the religion or the country you belong to? Such questions have again been raised because of the tragic case of 31-year-old Savita Halappanavar,…
November 20, 2012, 10:14 PM IST
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When Bal Thackeray got me censored
November 20, 2012, 4:53 PM IST
The recent scandalous episode in which two young girls from Maharashtra were jailed by local cops for having shared an innocuous Facebook comment about the late lamented (or unlamented, according to your political views) Bal…
November 20, 2012, 4:53 PM IST
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Pests have their uses
November 19, 2012, 10:28 AM IST
Observing that he liked committing crimes while God liked forgiving them, W H Auden’s thief remarked that the universe was very agreeably arranged indeed, reflecting as it did a mutually supportive role for all its…
November 19, 2012, 10:28 AM IST
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Phoney festivity
November 15, 2012, 11:06 PM IST
Figuring out the ‘con-text’ of all those anonymous Diwali SMSs
November 15, 2012, 11:06 PM IST
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Pull out all stops
November 12, 2012, 9:41 PM IST
Obama 2 should help to inspire Manmohan 2 Can Barack Obama’s down-to-the-wire win help to goad UPA-II into action? In his victory speech, Obama made two points which might evoke echoes in today’s India. The…
November 12, 2012, 9:41 PM IST
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Body of evidence
November 8, 2012, 10:36 PM IST
We search for mysteries outside, when the greatest mysteries are within us. The other day i got a sudden sharp twinge of pain on the sole of my foot. At first i thought i`d stepped…
November 8, 2012, 10:36 PM IST
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Neta-worship
November 6, 2012, 8:14 PM IST
After death, our political leaders are turned into saints On October 31 newspapers carried many advertisements commemorating Indira Gandhi’s 28th death anniversary. The ads were taken out by diverse government departments and organisations, including the…
November 6, 2012, 8:14 PM IST
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