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Hiss and tell: When a Wolff in sheep’s clothing got under a president’s skin
January 8, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
“If you want a friend in Washington DC, get a dog,” President Harry Truman is said to have once remarked in an effort to describe the political acrimony that is endemic in the US capital….
January 8, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
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Year of giving dangerously: If not giving in to the US, New Delhi will be giving out to the electorate
January 2, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
A new year is just like the old year with a new number. Groucho Marx could have said this but he didn’t. Happy New Yet Another Year. Stay with it. You have no choice. You…
January 2, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
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The Virushka virus: Virat-Anushka marriage implants American disease on Indian soil
December 25, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
When it comes to name blending, it does not work more often than it does. Take India’s first celebrity portmanteau couple for instance. Virushka sounds like a baby virus of Russian or Slavic origin. Viranus…
December 25, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
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Go west, and north and south: India should negotiate a new movement of people compact with the US, Canada, Australia, Russia
December 15, 2017, 2:05 AM IST
Standby for some more demonisation of immigrants and immigration in the United States after the latest attempted terrorist attack on the New York City subway system. In this mercifully cartoonish effort, a Bangladeshi immigrant injured…
December 15, 2017, 2:05 AM IST
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To neech his own: Mani talks, handing enemies plenty of ammuneechion
December 11, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
Contemporary politics in India – let’s call it rajneechi for the purpose of this brief comment – is a base sport. Even accounting for its lowly status, recent exchanges in this sphere is beneech the…
December 11, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
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The party is over, boys. Come to terms with the new reality: no means no
December 10, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
A watershed moment in women’s liberation, gender re-balancing, and sexual mores may be unfolding just now, at least among American elites to begin with. Powerful men are crawling on all fours into the doghouse in…
December 10, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
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The nukes of hazard: North Korea’s ascent to the nuclear high-table should bring total disarmament back into focus
December 4, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
In January 2017, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists’ Science and Security Board advanced its ill-famed Doomsday Clock by 30 seconds, to two and half minutes to midnight. The reset of the clock, hypothetically representing the…
December 4, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
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Sex and the seedy: Masculine concupiscence is finally meeting its come uppance
November 27, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
American media is overflowing with headlines about predatory sexual behavior from the country’s male celebrities and power brokers, broadly justifying the diva Mae West’s quip that if you “give a man a free hand, he’ll…
November 27, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
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Flying off the handle: Plain old hijacking doesn’t hold a candle to the newer in-flight confrontations
November 13, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
Among several laws of flying in airplanes one says the strength of turbulence is directly proportional to the temperature of your coffee. However, spilling a hot beverage on your lap is a minor hazard compared…
November 13, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
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Flying off the handle
November 12, 2017, 12:12 PM IST
Among several laws of flying in airplanes is one that says the strength of turbulence is directly proportional to the temperature of your coffee. However, spilling a hot beverage on your lap is a minor…
November 12, 2017, 12:12 PM IST
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Reign of the Milk Sheikh: After the White Revolution, Cereals lose Bran Equity and head to port
October 30, 2017, 2:06 AM IST
News from the Central Statistics Office (CSO) in New Delhi that Milk has become the Number One farm crop by value is causing great ferment in India’s Food Kingdom. Milk now constitutes 20% of agriculture output,…
October 30, 2017, 2:06 AM IST
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Republic of Outragestan: Americans are trying to steal a title that rightfully belongs to us Indians
October 16, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
An American columnist recently tried to appropriate for his country what is without doubt a major Indian malady. He proposed that “too many Americans are controversy junkies” and are “addicted to outrage”, and therefore, presumably,…
October 16, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
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Grand council of the Breads: GST, BJP, upcoming elections and how the khakhra crumbles
October 10, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
All the staple breads of India gathered around the kitchen table to discuss a matter of great importance. One of their kith and kin had been singled out for a handsome break in GST, and…
October 10, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
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Porn in the USA: So that’s what libidinous letches and lascivious libidos drooled over
October 2, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
The difference between art and pornography, mused Family Guy Peter Griffin, is a government grant. Occasionally, it can also be a family endowment. It might surprise some to know that Hugh Hefner, the Playboy publisher…
October 2, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
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Mandi Dabwali and India as Disasterstan
October 1, 2017, 2:45 AM IST
Every time I read or hear about a deathly man-made, man-aggravated disaster in India, two words come to mind: Mandi Dabwali. Doesn’t ring a bell, does it? Why should it? It was nearly 20 years…
October 1, 2017, 2:45 AM IST
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Dussehra and Diwali light up distant lands
September 30, 2017, 11:29 AM IST
In 1992, I happened to travel to South Africa to report on, among other things, the changeover from the apartheid regime, and the tour of the Indian cricket team — the first by an ICC-recognized…
September 30, 2017, 11:29 AM IST
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The Many Lies of Fakistan
September 29, 2017, 11:01 PM IST
Among the many monikers that have been bestowed on Pakistan in recent years – Terroristan, Jihadistan, Osamastan, AlQaedastan, Proliferationstan, Denialistan, Blackmailistan, Pakjabistan etc – the one that is current this week is Bullshitistan. No country…
September 29, 2017, 11:01 PM IST
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Why India did not become Playboy’s playing field
September 28, 2017, 11:17 AM IST
Hugh Hefner is dead, his desire to open Indian franchises unfulfilled. Playboy, the iconic magazine he bequeathed to the world, may well follow him to the grave, much of its sizzle now transported to the…
September 28, 2017, 11:17 AM IST
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The rational behind saying no to boots on ground in Afghanistan
September 27, 2017, 10:52 AM IST
It has been a little more than 30 years since the Indian military, bearing the acronym IPKF, for Indian Peace Keeping Force, intervened in Sri Lanka. It arrived at Sri Lanka invitation initially to guarantee…
September 27, 2017, 10:52 AM IST
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India v Pak: Indian Institute of Tu-Tu and Mein-Mein
September 24, 2017, 12:11 PM IST
Sushma Swaraj’s “We create IITs and IIMs; you create LeTs and JeMs” jibe at Pakistan yesterday at the annual UN jamboree reminded me of previous musings on the subject of India v Pakistan at UN,…
September 24, 2017, 12:11 PM IST
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