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Acapulco dreaming and the Tennis Elbow Club International
September 16, 2013, 10:10 AM IST
It was 1983 and Black Monday at The Paper, The Statesman, Calcutta, which is where I then worked. Mondays at The Paper were always Black. But this Monday seemed Blacker than most. The editor wanted…
September 16, 2013, 10:10 AM IST
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A fistful of dollars
September 14, 2013, 12:11 PM IST
At a time when the rupee is in freefall against the US dollar and almost all other international currencies, I recall how I earned my first payment in foreign exchange. One day in 1983, out…
September 14, 2013, 12:11 PM IST
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NaMonama
September 12, 2013, 10:39 PM IST
The gospel truth according to our would-be prime minister Narendra Modi. NaMo: Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four… Jugular Vein: Excuse me, but i think you’re counting backwards. NaMo: Of course i’m counting backwards,…
September 12, 2013, 10:39 PM IST
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Upside-down India
September 10, 2013, 10:03 PM IST
The operation was successful but the patient died. In order to liberate the village, we had to destroy the village. These two quotes – one from the field of surgery, and the other from the…
September 10, 2013, 10:03 PM IST
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When men and mountains meet
September 9, 2013, 9:58 AM IST
I was looking at an equilateral triangle. But it was no ordinary triangle: it was a triangle 14,400 feet high. It was Mount Rainier, which looms over the skyline of the city of Seattle, in…
September 9, 2013, 9:58 AM IST
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Backward lives
September 5, 2013, 10:03 PM IST
Why we can never eat enough jalebis, rabri, biryani and other goodies The other day i went to have lunch at Karim’s, the Delhi eatery famous for its Mughlai cuisine, and whose many patrons included…
September 5, 2013, 10:03 PM IST
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Ghoos phoos
September 3, 2013, 10:26 PM IST
The most populist of populist schemes. The monsoon is coming to its tail end all over the country. But it’s still raining. Raining populist schemes, that is. It is the season most favoured by Indian…
September 3, 2013, 10:26 PM IST
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Testing times
August 29, 2013, 8:25 PM IST
Jugular Vein: Mantriji, i have a question to ask you. Mantriji: Question? Oof, oh. All you journalists always want to keep on asking questions. No wonder none of you can do your job right, the…
August 29, 2013, 8:25 PM IST
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Shrinking rupee
August 27, 2013, 9:40 PM IST
A lot of people will remember the time when eight Indian rupees could buy you a US dollar. Today the rupee is heading towards 70 to the dollar. How and why has the rupee shrunk…
August 27, 2013, 9:40 PM IST
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Crown it all
August 22, 2013, 9:56 PM IST
Why the Brits are so hung up about royalty while Indians take it in their stride
August 22, 2013, 9:56 PM IST
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Cry, freedom
August 20, 2013, 9:49 PM IST
When asked what he thought about western civilisation, Mahatma Gandhi said it would be a good idea. Sixty-six years after India won freedom from foreign rule, there are not a few in this country who…
August 20, 2013, 9:49 PM IST
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The lost summer
August 16, 2013, 12:07 PM IST
That was the summer I went with my family to our home village, Mandvi, in Kutch, and first met Jehram. He was 10 and I was nine. The son of a Kharva fisherman who lived…
August 16, 2013, 12:07 PM IST
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How to do paisa vasool when travelling by train in Britain
August 15, 2013, 10:06 PM IST
Bunny and i both love train travel. Regrettably, though India has one of the biggest rail networks in the world, several factors deter all but the most determined of travellers from using this mode of…
August 15, 2013, 10:06 PM IST
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In India, poverty is not a state of mind but a mind of the state
August 13, 2013, 10:04 PM IST
An imaginary conversation between a mother and a son. Son: Mummy, Mummy, i’ve just had another idea! Mummy: Oh, no – not again. You know what happened the last time you had one of these…
August 13, 2013, 10:04 PM IST
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Starbuck trek
August 8, 2013, 9:32 PM IST
I was in Seattle, and i was sleepless. On the Pacific coast of Washington state in north-western America, the city of Seattle – named after the chief of a native American tribe who is often…
August 8, 2013, 9:32 PM IST
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Mar Durga
August 6, 2013, 9:20 PM IST
Dear Akhileshji, I am writing this to express my sympathy for the plight you are facing thanks to your servant problem. It is really a shame and a scandal what’s happening in this country, where…
August 6, 2013, 9:20 PM IST
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Waterless in Vasant Kunj
August 3, 2013, 12:25 PM IST
We fixed on the date for moving in to our newly-acquired DDA flat in Vasant Kunj. “I’ll help you move,” said Chhotu, Bunny’s cousin-in-law. Chhotu had been with the Army and was said to be…
August 3, 2013, 12:25 PM IST
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Parlay voo France
August 1, 2013, 10:56 PM IST
The art of making French conversation when you can’t speak French.
August 1, 2013, 10:56 PM IST
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DDA, Sushmita Sen and Paloo
August 1, 2013, 11:20 AM IST
“Sooner rather than later, we’ll have to buy our own flat, and it’ll probably have to be a DDA flat, which is all that we’ll be able to afford,” I’d told Bunny before we’d left…
August 1, 2013, 11:20 AM IST
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Playing ping-pong with Vir
July 16, 2013, 9:57 AM IST
“Vir Sanghvi’s written a blog in which he says he never thought you’d be such a chamcha of the TOI management,” an acquaintance told me. The word “chamcha” – particularly a chamcha in the context…
July 16, 2013, 9:57 AM IST
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