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The Lure of Teen Patti?
November 5, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
Come Diwali time, particularly in North India, the ‘taash parties’ get underway with a good degree of seriousness. For some not immediately comprehensible reason, gambling is considered auspicious at this time of the year, and…
November 5, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
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The anatomy of disenchantment?
October 29, 2018, 1:00 AM IST
Barring the most committed supporters of this government (and this is not a small number), the general feeling, including reportedly within BJP circles, is that the party will not do as well in the next…
October 29, 2018, 1:00 AM IST
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#MeToo as social regulation?
October 22, 2018, 2:20 AM IST
There are many things remarkable about the #MeToo movement in India. That so many courageous women came out into the open and shared their trauma. That they managed to break down the defences of the…
October 22, 2018, 2:20 AM IST
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The technologies not invented
October 15, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
What if the undetectable bomb was invented? What if we could read each other’s minds? What if we could see through clothes? None of these technologies is beyond the realms of possibility. Indeed, in some…
October 15, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
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The pleasures of chocolate
October 8, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
Come festival time, and the boxes of gifted goodies start piling up. Dry fruits and various local mithais have always been the staple, but in the last few years, some new entrants have found their…
October 8, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
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The social face of business?
October 1, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
“In an emergency, anywhere in India, someone from our side will be with you within an hour”. This was how two Indian entrepreneurs, involved with the textile industry were trying to communicate the scale of…
October 1, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
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The lottery as idea
September 24, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
Recently, there were news report of a farmer in Punjab borrowing Rs 200 to buy a lottery ticket which went on to win him a prize of Rs 1.5 crore. We hear these kinds of…
September 24, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
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The rise of female entrepreneurship?
September 17, 2018, 7:30 AM IST
Everywhere one travels in the country, one comes across a new breed of female entrepreneurs. They don’t give themselves that label, but in a variety of small ways, entrepreneurship is blossoming at the smallest unit…
September 17, 2018, 7:30 AM IST
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Aboard the Nostalgia Express
September 10, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
According to newspaper reports, the railway reservation chart is now history. And for generations of Indians, the meaning of rail travel has been altered. Bit by bit, railway travel as we once knew it is…
September 10, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
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An ecosystem of fear?
September 3, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
The arrest of several rights activists across the country on charges of having Maoist links has created deep disquiet among many commentators. Accompanied as it is, by a new label- ‘Urban Naxals’, it is being…
September 3, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
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Re-negotiating our freedoms?
August 27, 2018, 6:50 AM IST
Is WhatsApp to blame for the lynchings that have taken place in the country recently? There is no doubt that WhatsApp messages have played a key role in some of the incidents, but how valid…
August 27, 2018, 6:50 AM IST
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The pleasures of bargaining
August 20, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
Growing up, going shopping with older female relatives was always a nightmare. They took inordinately long, visiting at least a dozen shops before even thinking about buying something. They seemed most interested in the least…
August 20, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
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The new public spaces
August 13, 2018, 6:30 AM IST
Using paper towels in a toilet at an Indian airport feels surreal to those who have grown up in another India. There is a wholly unfamiliar sense of crisp hygiene that accompanies its use and…
August 13, 2018, 6:30 AM IST
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The decline of collective trust?
August 6, 2018, 12:50 AM IST
Across the world, we have stumbled upon a truly vexing and quite a fundamental problem- we can’t seem to able to authoritatively separate the real from the fake, fact from opinion, expertise from motivated opinion….
August 6, 2018, 12:50 AM IST
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Beyond the hug?
July 23, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
Much has already been said and written about Rahul Gandhi’s speech during the no-confidence motion debate. Even more has been said about the hug. Perhaps it is a testimony of how compulsively politics in India…
July 23, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
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#Everywhere – Decoding the hashtag
July 16, 2018, 6:30 AM IST
New worlds bring with them new signs. In the digital world, perhaps none is as ubiquitous as the hashtag. In a short time, the # has become part of our vocabulary, framing our exertions on…
July 16, 2018, 6:30 AM IST
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Downhill till 2019?
July 9, 2018, 1:00 AM IST
Over the last couple of weeks, a clear signal has emerged from the ruling party as to what the direction of its electoral strategy is. A series of signs, big and small, have confirmed what…
July 9, 2018, 1:00 AM IST
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The Advertising Mirror?
July 2, 2018, 6:30 AM IST
Hema, Rekha, Jaya and Sushma. To a generation of Indians, these four names evoke instant memories. Part of an advertising jingle that burrowed its way into our consciousness and took up permanent residence there, these…
July 2, 2018, 6:30 AM IST
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The fear of food?
June 25, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
If there is one fundamental change that has occurred over a single generation, it is in our attitude towards food. We now think of food as the presumed enemy, and every morsel that we put…
June 25, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
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Social media: Breeding the toxic?
June 18, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
The tools of a new world create new kinds of problems. Social media access creates opportunities but also gives rise to consequences of a kind not imagined earlier. The controversy around Atul Kochhar, much awarded…
June 18, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
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