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NaMo and the lotus
October 26, 2013, 12:18 PM IST
Will the 2014 elections see a battle of flowers, a battle between the Nehruvian rose, as represented by Jawaharlal Nehru’s great-grandson, and the BJP’s lotus, as represented by Narendra Modi, whom the saffron party has…
October 26, 2013, 12:18 PM IST
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Let’s stick together
October 24, 2013, 10:48 PM IST
It was like a lathicharge set to music. Too cool. It was better than Robbers-and-Pirates which, at the age of 10, was the favourite game of me and my pals, involving the waving about of…
October 24, 2013, 10:48 PM IST
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Downsize uncle Sam
October 22, 2013, 10:44 PM IST
Would you allow a hulking, physically violent, emotionally unstable and financially irresponsible teenager to run your household, creating disputes with your neighbours and playing merry hell with your daily hisaab? Of course you wouldn’t. Yet…
October 22, 2013, 10:44 PM IST
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Enslaved by India
October 19, 2013, 12:38 PM IST
One hundred and fifty years after slavery was abolished in America, after a murderous civil war had been fought on the issue, this form of inhuman bondage continues to flourish in India, 66 years after…
October 19, 2013, 12:38 PM IST
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MMS should retire, not resign
October 18, 2013, 1:38 PM IST
Can Sachin Tendulkar give a useful tip to MMS? Perhaps he can. The opposition, particularly the BJP, is again clamouring for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to resign. The latest call for the PM’s resignation comes…
October 18, 2013, 1:38 PM IST
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Used to it
October 17, 2013, 9:53 PM IST
After subscribing to it, along with the TOI, for many years, I recently stopped getting the HT newspaper. While it’s a good enough paper otherwise, the main reason I used to get the HT was…
October 17, 2013, 9:53 PM IST
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Platform fare 2
October 16, 2013, 11:32 AM IST
On Indian railways even the tea varies, as my father explained in Tundla. In the east it tended to be somewhat stronger and darker. As one went north and west, and the milk became richer…
October 16, 2013, 11:32 AM IST
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Legalise crime
October 15, 2013, 9:21 PM IST
A Parliament of crooks could reward dishonesty and punish the lawful. Is the Indian polity becoming a Parliament of fouls? According to a TOI report, the figures for serious criminal charges are between 20 and…
October 15, 2013, 9:21 PM IST
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Platform fare 1
October 15, 2013, 11:49 AM IST
My father was a great traveller. He was a true wayfarer, someone to whom the act of journeying was at least as important as the incidental objective of reaching a specific destination. Yet he was…
October 15, 2013, 11:49 AM IST
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Let’s pharty
October 10, 2013, 10:24 PM IST
The other day i saw four young people chatting together. They were seated at a table in a crowded cafe and were deep in conversation. From the expressions on their faces and the intensity of…
October 10, 2013, 10:24 PM IST
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The liberal art of democracy
October 10, 2013, 2:46 PM IST
Is India becoming a country lacking in humanity? Or rather, a country lacking in the Humanities, as in the Liberal Arts? More and more school and college students are opting for so-called ‘hard’ subjects like…
October 10, 2013, 2:46 PM IST
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Advantage China
October 8, 2013, 10:01 PM IST
It was an everyday morning in the housing colony and the sabziwalla was doing his rounds. A housewife selected a sizeable quantity of vegetables from him, and, without asking him what she owed him, handed…
October 8, 2013, 10:01 PM IST
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Swear an oath
October 3, 2013, 9:50 PM IST
In India, bad gala-gali has driven good gala-gali out of circulation. The other day i happened to overhear an exchange of words between two young fellows. I couldn’t really get the general gist of what…
October 3, 2013, 9:50 PM IST
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After the recent riots in UP, the word ‘secular’ has lost all meaning
October 1, 2013, 9:41 PM IST
The recent riots in UP — which took a toll of over 48 lives and rendered more than an estimated 50,000 people homeless — have proved the Sangh Parivar right in one thing: the more…
October 1, 2013, 9:41 PM IST
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Is Rahul making MMS a scapegoat?
October 1, 2013, 11:12 AM IST
In Biblical times, the high priest of the Jews would get hold of a goat, draw on its back a mystical sign representing the collective sins of the community, and then let the goat run…
October 1, 2013, 11:12 AM IST
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Celeb rating
September 26, 2013, 10:07 PM IST
Even as his many fans worldwide wait eagerly for Sachin Tendulkar’s 200th Test match appearance, the cricket superstar’s publicity agents are reportedly figuring out how to derive maximum advertising revenue from the historic event when…
September 26, 2013, 10:07 PM IST
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Messiah Modi
September 24, 2013, 10:13 PM IST
Om NaMo Moditva. That is the quasi-religious chant that followers — devotees — of Gujarat CM and BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi offer up to him as a paean of praise. If not quite…
September 24, 2013, 10:13 PM IST
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Perfect PM
September 19, 2013, 10:14 PM IST
Some years ago an American entrepreneur invented the perfect pet for people who were too busy to keep regular pets which need a lot of looking after: he invented the pet rock. Unlike other pets,…
September 19, 2013, 10:14 PM IST
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Their racism, our racism
September 19, 2013, 4:38 PM IST
Predictably, the Indian media and the social networking circuit have raised a hue and cry about the case of Nina Davuluri, the young woman of Indian extraction born and brought up in the US, who…
September 19, 2013, 4:38 PM IST
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Legal loophole
September 17, 2013, 9:44 PM IST
Nirbhaya’s juvenile killer too young for law but not too young for justice. Never has the distinction between law and justice been in sharper contrast than in what has come to be called the Nirbhaya…
September 17, 2013, 9:44 PM IST
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