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Personal touch
July 11, 2013, 10:28 PM IST
Service industries try to woo customers by getting pally.
July 11, 2013, 10:28 PM IST
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Officially speaking
July 9, 2013, 10:54 PM IST
One of the first things you notice when you come into India from abroad is a sign over one of the immigration and passport control counters at the airport which says ‘Diplomat/Official’.
July 9, 2013, 10:54 PM IST
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Thanks to email and SMS, we are losing the art of writing
July 4, 2013, 10:05 PM IST
It was always lovely getting a gift from the late Sabina Sehgal Saikia, the celebrated food critic of the TOI. Not only for the sake of the present itself but for the accompanying note which…
July 4, 2013, 10:05 PM IST
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Put on notice
July 2, 2013, 10:14 PM IST
Where the finance ministry is concerned, you’re damned if you do or don’t Does the right hand of the government know what its left hand is doing? More to the point, does the right hand…
July 2, 2013, 10:14 PM IST
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A Suitable Boy to bank on
July 1, 2013, 10:33 AM IST
Vikram Seth’s A Suitable Boy was about to come out. Everyone was talking about it. In fact, everyone had been talking about it long before this, thanks to the huge advance that the author had…
July 1, 2013, 10:33 AM IST
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In the bargain
June 27, 2013, 10:18 PM IST
Bunny recently bought a handbag with which she is very pleased. The bag itself — made of black leather and with lots of those zipped-up compartments that women seem to favour and in which they…
June 27, 2013, 10:18 PM IST
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Joke’s on us
June 25, 2013, 9:09 PM IST
Recently I was at the CALM (Creative Arts, Literature and Music) festival in Shillong. It was indeed a calm event: serious discussions interspersed with humour. At one session, the question was raised as to who,…
June 25, 2013, 9:09 PM IST
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Big change
June 20, 2013, 10:20 PM IST
The new 10-rupee coin shows that our economic woes are far from over On the economic front it’s not time to bring out the celebratory champagne, or even a nimbu-soda. And the reason for this…
June 20, 2013, 10:20 PM IST
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Political secrecy
June 18, 2013, 9:39 PM IST
All our netas are united in keeping hush-hush the source of their party funding Indian politicians, like politicians the world over, generally agree only to disagree. But on one thing all of them — whichever…
June 18, 2013, 9:39 PM IST
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The Empress of Idlipom
June 18, 2013, 10:37 AM IST
“She said She did not find your column at all funny. In fact, She said it was totally devoid of humour,” said Monu, my TOI colleague. He had just air-dashed back to Delhi from what…
June 18, 2013, 10:37 AM IST
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Flight control
June 13, 2013, 9:46 PM IST
As they try to boost their bottom lines, cash-strapped airlines are thinking up new ways to extract extra money from passengers. Here is an imagined conversation between the CEOs (Chief Extortion Officers) of two such…
June 13, 2013, 9:46 PM IST
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Mera Bharat mayhem
June 13, 2013, 2:48 PM IST
Despite all its claims to being the fountainhead of ahimsa and Gandhian non-violence, 21st century India is an extremely violent society. If any further evidence was needed, it was provided by the recent massacre of…
June 13, 2013, 2:48 PM IST
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Gold fever
June 11, 2013, 10:19 PM IST
In The Merchant of Venice, suitors for the hand of the rich heiress, Portia, must choose between three caskets, one made of gold, one of silver, and one of lead. The one who chooses the…
June 11, 2013, 10:19 PM IST
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How to become indestructible
June 10, 2013, 10:11 AM IST
Einstein once told Neils Bohr that “God doesn’t play dice with the universe.” However, it would seem that God – if indeed there is such an entity, be it in the non-form of a Higgs-Boson…
June 10, 2013, 10:11 AM IST
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Operation landgrab
June 7, 2013, 1:02 PM IST
The bulldozers came before dawn. They smashed down the wall of the gated residential community, uprooted scores of trees. When the security guards of the community protested, they were threatened by the policemen accompanying the…
June 7, 2013, 1:02 PM IST
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Your best bet
June 6, 2013, 10:06 PM IST
Though i hate both cricket and Bollywood — those two great subcontinental passions — i’ve always considered myself a typical Indian. That is, until the IPL spot-fixing expose revealed the amount and extent of illegal…
June 6, 2013, 10:06 PM IST
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Battleground NaMo
June 4, 2013, 10:17 PM IST
Narendra Modi is India’s most divisive politician.
June 4, 2013, 10:17 PM IST
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The Big B in my bonnet
June 1, 2013, 12:18 PM IST
Maybe it was all the fault of the British director Danny Boyle who made the movie Slumdog Millionaire. Or maybe it was the fault of Vikas Swarup who wrote the novel Q&A on which the…
June 1, 2013, 12:18 PM IST
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It just ain’t cricket
May 31, 2013, 1:24 PM IST
If over the past week World War III had been declared, newspaper and TV headlines in India might well have sidelined it. If the sun had risen in the west instead of in the east,…
May 31, 2013, 1:24 PM IST
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Enemy within
May 30, 2013, 10:19 PM IST
Who is India’s single biggest security threat? Pakistan? Or China? The answer is neither. The single biggest security threat the country faces lies not outside, but within its borders. This has tragically been highlighted by…
May 30, 2013, 10:19 PM IST
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