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Call it quits
May 29, 2013, 11:18 AM IST
Outraged Citizen and Disgruntled Denizen are having a conversation about this guy whom everyone agrees should resign. Outraged Citizen: This is really too much! It’s the final straw! We’ve put up with him and all…
May 29, 2013, 11:18 AM IST
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A walk in the clouds
May 27, 2013, 10:58 AM IST
We were in Meghalaya, ‘The Land of Clouds’. So what would be more appropriate than that we take a walk through the cloudscape. In Meghalaya, nothing is easier to arrange. From the state capital of…
May 27, 2013, 10:58 AM IST
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Good heavens, it’s a VVIP
May 25, 2013, 11:45 AM IST
Death is said to be the great leveller.
May 25, 2013, 11:45 AM IST
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It all ads up
May 23, 2013, 10:18 PM IST
Following the IPL spot-fixing expose, here’s a conversation between two IPL bookies, Doosra and Teesra. Doosra: All these cops snooping around are getting too much, i tell you. Just the other day, this bowler puts…
May 23, 2013, 10:18 PM IST
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Pak it up
May 21, 2013, 10:16 PM IST
Santa Claus has come early this year for Pakistan and India. And he’s come in the unlikely avatar of Nawaz Sharif, who’s been elected Pakistan’s prime minister for the third time, in the first ever…
May 21, 2013, 10:16 PM IST
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How to fix cricket ‘fixing’
May 17, 2013, 4:04 PM IST
How does one fix – put an end to – cricket ‘fixing’ – the rigging of cricket matches, particularly of the T20 variety as represented by the ongoing IPL series? Can fixed matches ever get…
May 17, 2013, 4:04 PM IST
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Time travel
May 16, 2013, 9:20 PM IST
Are we becoming time travellers, going backwards in time, like the hero of H G Wells’s novel The Time Machine? The thought struck me the other day when i read that a Page 3 regular…
May 16, 2013, 9:20 PM IST
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Protect yourself
May 14, 2013, 10:16 PM IST
Step by step, the Indian state has been giving up its most basic duties and obligations to its citizens and leaving them no option but to fend for themselves.
May 14, 2013, 10:16 PM IST
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No passage from India
May 11, 2013, 10:26 AM IST
It was once suggested that as more likely than not the Indian monsoon is late in coming, rather than being early or on time, the mon-soon should in all fairness, and for the sake of…
May 11, 2013, 10:26 AM IST
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Labour pains
May 9, 2013, 9:25 PM IST
In India, work expands to fit the number of people employed to do it.The other day we were driving through western UP along a road that called itself a National Highway and which was a…
May 9, 2013, 9:25 PM IST
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Caste out
May 7, 2013, 9:22 PM IST
If ‘jaath’ gets equated with race, India would become the world’s most racist country. Is India the most racist country in the world? When South Africa practised the racist policy of apartheid which segregated white…
May 7, 2013, 9:22 PM IST
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Liberation from movement
May 4, 2013, 9:34 AM IST
In one of Hermann Hesse’s novels, an Oriental sage makes the observation that “Movement creates obstacles”. The implications of this are obvious. It is the desire to move – in any direction, forwards, backwards, sideways…
May 4, 2013, 9:34 AM IST
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IPL epidemic
May 2, 2013, 8:05 PM IST
The TV is screaming, shouting, roaring, wailing, hooting with peals of hysteria. Has North Korea attacked South Korea? Has the BJP nominated NaMo as its official PM candidate? Has Sachin Tendulkar finally announced retirement? Has…
May 2, 2013, 8:05 PM IST
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Faith as spiritual homeopathy
May 2, 2013, 9:53 AM IST
When Bunny was recently suffering from a bout of sciatica, several friends suggested that she might try homeopathy. “Even if it doesn’t work, you’ve got nothing to lose; even if it doesn’t help you, it…
May 2, 2013, 9:53 AM IST
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Looking for a flat in Delhi – II
May 1, 2013, 11:07 AM IST
So, under my new name – ‘Mr Jagdish’ instead of the suspiciously minority-sounding ‘Jug Suraiya’ – I resumed my flat-hunting in Delhi, with property dealer Anil Makhijani as my friend, philosopher and guide in my…
May 1, 2013, 11:07 AM IST
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Popular myths
April 30, 2013, 8:56 PM IST
There is a belief that in the 2014 elections those who favour social liberalism will vote for the Congress-led UPA and those who favour economic liberalism will vote for the BJP-led NDA. Such a formulation…
April 30, 2013, 8:56 PM IST
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Looking for a flat in Delhi-I
April 30, 2013, 9:55 AM IST
It was August, 1987. Bunny and I had just come from Calcutta to take up residence in Delhi. Looking for accommodation, we met our first Delhi property dealer. “Hello, ji. I am Anil Makhijani,” said…
April 30, 2013, 9:55 AM IST
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Return of the Raj
April 25, 2013, 11:17 PM IST
Would-be tourists from India will save Britain from recession.
April 25, 2013, 11:17 PM IST
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Origin of graft
April 23, 2013, 10:15 PM IST
Which came first, the chicken or the egg? With graft cases – or at least, exposes of graft – daily on the rise, the Indian variation of the chicken-and-egg riddle might well be: which came…
April 23, 2013, 10:15 PM IST
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Who’ll be the lion king?
April 20, 2013, 11:24 AM IST
The collective word for lions is ‘pride’.
April 20, 2013, 11:24 AM IST
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