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Doing the rounds
March 7, 2013, 9:42 PM IST
Why it is that when you have a problem, everyone has it too Bunny is just recovering from a painful bout of sciatica, which she gets now and then, fortunately more then than now. Physiotherapy…
March 7, 2013, 9:42 PM IST
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Gender apartheid
March 5, 2013, 9:16 PM IST
Special banks for women will further ghettoise them Is India becoming a proponent of apartheid? Not apartheid based on race, but on gender? The recent proposal to create special banks which will cater only to…
March 5, 2013, 9:16 PM IST
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Shouldering the sky ourselves
March 5, 2013, 10:11 AM IST
The story goes that while Rabbi Eliezer was engaged in debate with his colleagues on an interpretation of a theological point in the Torah, the Jewish version of the Bible, one of the rabbis asked…
March 5, 2013, 10:11 AM IST
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Unlearnt lessons
March 2, 2013, 12:44 PM IST
No matter what surprises the FM’s budget did or did not contain, going by past performance one thing was a dead certainty – the budgetary allocation for defence (guns, bombs, planes, ships and other military…
March 2, 2013, 12:44 PM IST
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A raw deal
February 28, 2013, 9:15 PM IST
What are we having for dinner? i ask Bunny. Salad, she replies. But we had salad for lunch, i protest. So we did, and we’re also having it for dinner; and for tomorrow’s lunch, and…
February 28, 2013, 9:15 PM IST
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Middle-class myth
February 26, 2013, 9:23 PM IST
Dipak and Deepa (names made up) take pride in describing themselves as belonging to the great, and ever-expanding, Indian middle class, which is the most visible symbol of the country’s slow but sustained stumble to…
February 26, 2013, 9:23 PM IST
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Proof of the pudding
February 25, 2013, 10:39 AM IST
Those who are hoping that the finance minister may sweeten the upcoming budget with some sops for people whose household hisaab has been hit by persistent inflation may or may not be disappointed when PC…
February 25, 2013, 10:39 AM IST
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Load of rubbish
February 21, 2013, 10:02 PM IST
The other week Bunny and i were in Goa, but we didn’t manage to see too much of it. The reason that we didn’t see too much of Goa was not because as soon as…
February 21, 2013, 10:02 PM IST
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Poor no more
February 19, 2013, 10:33 PM IST
To fill its empty coffers, the sarkar might declare us all ‘rich’ There is a widespread feeling that the government – in order to fill its coffers and prune the growing fiscal deficit which is…
February 19, 2013, 10:33 PM IST
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Gaddi made for two
February 16, 2013, 11:16 AM IST
The line-up for the Great 2014 Prime Ministerial Race has been formed, and the two odds-on favourites – one of whom is expected to romp home past the winning post – are Gujarat chief minister…
February 16, 2013, 11:16 AM IST
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Wassup, dude – you dig this?
February 16, 2013, 11:09 AM IST
Just before the 2008 US elections – which, incidentally, made history by putting an African-American in the suddenly inappropriately named White House – the Times of India carried a lead editorial suggesting that since America…
February 16, 2013, 11:09 AM IST
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Designer names
February 14, 2013, 9:14 PM IST
People are calling people all sorts of things these days, all of them good Some friends of mine have a year-old granddaughter — a truly adorable one — called Kiara. Some other friends have an…
February 14, 2013, 9:14 PM IST
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Faces of terror
February 12, 2013, 9:35 PM IST
Was Afzal Guru’s crime more ‘heinous’ than that of Nirbhaya’s torturers? The widespread celebrations that followed the hanging of Afzal Guru, the conspirator in the 2002 terrorist attack on Parliament, was in stark contrast to…
February 12, 2013, 9:35 PM IST
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Jump on the banned wagon
February 9, 2013, 11:28 AM IST
Sociologists and other commentators often lament the lack of policing in Indian society, where our law enforcement agencies are too busy protecting political netas from real or imaginary harm to look after the safety of…
February 9, 2013, 11:28 AM IST
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Follow the leader
February 7, 2013, 10:06 PM IST
How Didi has made herself Kolkata’s most prominent landmark During a recent visit there, i discovered that Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee — known to all and sundry, particularly sundry, as Didi — has brought about wondrous ‘poriborton’…
February 7, 2013, 10:06 PM IST
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Golden ghoos
February 5, 2013, 9:43 PM IST
Bribery and corruption as a yardstick of social progress With his off-the-cuff remark at the Jaipur Literature Festival that OBCs, SCs and STs are among the most corrupt elements in Indian society, sociologist Ashis Nandy…
February 5, 2013, 9:43 PM IST
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Three tales of three cities
February 1, 2013, 9:51 AM IST
Kolkata, Mumbai and Delhi. Three very different cities, with very different personalities, like three very different people. Kolkata is like an elderly uncle, dressed in a slightly frayed kurta-pyjama, long retired after having been a…
February 1, 2013, 9:51 AM IST
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Festive mood
January 31, 2013, 8:32 PM IST
India has always been a country of festivals: religious festivals, social festivals, you-name-it festivals. And now we have a new type of festival in India. It’s called the literary festival, or lit fest as it’s…
January 31, 2013, 8:32 PM IST
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Rough justice
January 29, 2013, 9:59 PM IST
In an interview to a magazine supplement, Bollywood actor John Abraham, who is perhaps better known for his impressive musculature than his intellectual acuity, said that if the government did not take prompt action to…
January 29, 2013, 9:59 PM IST
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The karmic law of wrongdoing and redemption
January 28, 2013, 10:16 AM IST
The world was shocked when the iconic sportsperson Lance Armstrong – who successfully combated cancer and went on to win the Tour de France cycling championship a record-breaking seven consecutive times – was accused of…
January 28, 2013, 10:16 AM IST
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