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An inner sense of justice
November 25, 2012, 6:44 PM IST
For once, television went hungry. The hanging of Ajmal Kasab, that made-for television extravaganza starring hyperventilating news anchors, pontificating experts and dramatic background music, took place in a decidedly unspectacular way. Acting with uncharacteristic secrecy…
November 25, 2012, 6:44 PM IST
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Festivals: More pain than pleasure?
November 18, 2012, 7:07 PM IST
The day after Diwali, newspapers are full of reports about the festival. They don’t feature the celebrations or the joy of the festivities, but focus almost exclusively on the issue of pollution. How noisy was…
November 18, 2012, 7:07 PM IST
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How marketable is the market?
November 11, 2012, 6:57 PM IST
The rally that the Congress held in Delhi last week marked an interesting break from the past in that it overtly backed its recent run of economic reforms. Typically, both the BJP and the Congress…
November 11, 2012, 6:57 PM IST
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Decoding the new Karwa Chauth
November 4, 2012, 7:30 PM IST
Is Karwa Chauth sexist, asked a TV news channel the other day. And with good reason, it would seem. The idea of a married woman fasting for the long life of the husband does nothing…
November 4, 2012, 7:30 PM IST
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The magnificence of the multi-tiered tiffin-box
October 28, 2012, 6:21 PM IST
If the thali is a bungalow, sprawling in its abundant magnificence, the triple-decker tiffin-box is its apartment version. Not the boxy kind, constructed under some government scheme, but an Antilla of sorts, with the entire…
October 28, 2012, 6:21 PM IST
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The island of delusion
October 21, 2012, 7:32 PM IST
The Mallyas are not alone in being able to separate their sense of fun from the collapse of their reputations.
October 21, 2012, 7:32 PM IST
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The pornography of unnecessary detail
October 14, 2012, 7:49 PM IST
Some weeks back, we read news reports in various newspapers about an IRS officer who shot an obscene video of his wife and threatened to blackmail her for more dowry. Actually, we read a little…
October 14, 2012, 7:49 PM IST
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The toilet vs temple question
October 7, 2012, 8:32 PM IST
As is his wont, Jairam Ramesh has sparked off a debate by saying something provocative.
October 7, 2012, 8:32 PM IST
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The ’70s to 70: An unbroken zanjeer
October 6, 2012, 12:47 PM IST
Commerce does not lie. At 70, Amitabh Bachchan is the reason why KBC is among the top 3 shows in the country today. He continues to be the face of many brands, and is among…
October 6, 2012, 12:47 PM IST
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A weapon called grace
September 30, 2012, 6:38 PM IST
Something remarkable happened on the Internet last week. A picture of a young Sikh girl in the US with facial hair was posted in the ‘funny’ section on a social media site. This is hardly…
September 30, 2012, 6:38 PM IST
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Promoting equality unequally?
September 23, 2012, 7:17 PM IST
There are some familiar and very vocal arguments that have been put forward against the proposed legislation to make reservations in promotions.
September 23, 2012, 7:17 PM IST
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Overvaluing the symbolic
September 16, 2012, 6:46 PM IST
A cartoon that got its maker locked up on charges of sedition. A crudely provocative film that has set off riots in several parts of the world; this coming on the back of a doctored…
September 16, 2012, 6:46 PM IST
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The noisy silence in Parliament
September 9, 2012, 5:27 PM IST
Another turbulent parliamentary session comes to a damp end, having achieved little. Behind the perennially noisy scenes in Parliament lurks a deeper silence. It is as if our legislators no longer find too much relevance…
September 9, 2012, 5:27 PM IST
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The exception as the rule
September 2, 2012, 8:46 PM IST
What makes Unmukt Chand’s case for promotion into in spite of poor attendance a ‘rarest of rare’ case, deserving of extraordinary consideration?
September 2, 2012, 8:46 PM IST
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Social media & the freedom of expression
August 27, 2012, 8:51 AM IST
One can drive a very large truck of suspect cargo through the door marked ‘patriotism’. Once the integrity of the nation is invoked and the spectre of social and communal unrest is seen as being…
August 27, 2012, 8:51 AM IST
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Information as virus
August 19, 2012, 7:08 PM IST
As the world is becoming more intricately connected, its relationship with information is changing in a fundamental way. Three unconnected events -the killing of innocent Sikhs at a Wisconsin gurdwara, the exodus of North-Easterners from…
August 19, 2012, 7:08 PM IST
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The burden of independence
August 12, 2012, 11:17 PM IST
Yet another question asked of Mamata Banerjee, yet another person in jail. In the world that she lives in, it would appear that asking a question is not a sign of dissent but of some…
August 12, 2012, 11:17 PM IST
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Team Anna & the need for strategic clarity
August 5, 2012, 6:33 PM IST
After attacking politics for than a year, and spiritedly trying to prove that there was an alternative mechanism for bringing about change, Team Anna has crossed over to the other side. It wasn’t left with…
August 5, 2012, 6:33 PM IST
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Between outrage and empathy
July 29, 2012, 8:40 PM IST
As if the last few weeks never not horrific enough in terms of the number of barbaric atrocities committed against women, the so-called moral police has done its bit in Mangalore. In the latest instance,…
July 29, 2012, 8:40 PM IST
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Remembering the poetic masculinity of Rajesh Khanna
July 22, 2012, 9:07 PM IST
It is almost as if we were waiting for the man to die so that we could remember him. Not as he was at the time of his death but as we experienced him so…
July 22, 2012, 9:07 PM IST
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