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What goes up, stays up?
November 30, 2020, 2:00 AM IST
Conventional wisdom has it that no party or ideology can stay in power forever. The evidence over the years supports this view. The most dominant and seemingly impregnable regimes can bite the dust, sometimes spectacularly…
November 30, 2020, 2:00 AM IST
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The Covid Paradox
November 23, 2020, 2:00 AM IST
Living under the Covid cloud for 8 months now has been instructive. From a time when all conversations, both in the public and private spheres tended to centre around the pandemic and its transformative impact…
November 23, 2020, 2:00 AM IST
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What democracy is capable of
November 9, 2020, 2:00 AM IST
The world heaves a sigh of relief. American democracy took its time, creaked mightily as it crawled its way to redemption, but finally it delivered what the world had been waiting for. Deliverance from Donald…
November 9, 2020, 2:00 AM IST
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The Body as a Stranger?
November 2, 2020, 5:00 AM IST
Historically, we have been estranged from our own bodies. The Covid crisis underlines just how little we understand our own bodies. For all the intense engagement we have with our own selves, we regard the…
November 2, 2020, 5:00 AM IST
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The photo album revisited
October 26, 2020, 2:00 AM IST
During the many months that one has been homebound thanks to Covid, one has had to rediscover aspects of the home that have otherwise been ignored. Closets have been cleaned, papers organised, some culinary skills…
October 26, 2020, 2:00 AM IST
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Advertising as politics?
October 19, 2020, 2:00 AM IST
The controversy surrounding the Tanishq ad has attracted a lot of comment. Both its contents and the company’s decision to withdraw it have met with fierce criticism, albeit from different quarters. The criticism of the…
October 19, 2020, 2:00 AM IST
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The Future of the Past?
October 12, 2020, 7:00 AM IST
What is it about the past that produces wisdom? Why is it so easy to believe that the ancients hold all the keys to truly deep wisdom? For civilisations to locate an essential form of…
October 12, 2020, 7:00 AM IST
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The power of disproportion
October 5, 2020, 6:00 AM IST
One doesn’t have to lie to tell an untruth. Of course, lying is the most direct and efficient form of untruth, but there are other ways too. For weeks now, the Indian state and much…
October 5, 2020, 6:00 AM IST
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Caught between reward and guilt
September 21, 2020, 1:30 AM IST
The Opposition in India is completely bereft of ideas. In any other circumstances, given the fact that that the country is facing crises on several fronts, both external and internal, the Opposition should have had…
September 21, 2020, 1:30 AM IST
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The trouble with exams?
September 14, 2020, 6:10 AM IST
A recent recruitment ad released by the IIT went viral. It was advertising a position for a dog handler, in itself an unusual vocation to need in an educational institution, and compounded the bizarreness by…
September 14, 2020, 6:10 AM IST
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Towards an uncivil society?
September 7, 2020, 6:00 AM IST
Whenever anyone mounts a critique of the current state of media encounters one particular counter-argument. Where were you when the tilt was the other way around, when the liberal narrative held sway in almost all…
September 7, 2020, 6:00 AM IST
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The urge to escape?
August 31, 2020, 6:00 AM IST
Don’t watch TV news. Not even by mistake. Not even if you are changing channels. That’s the only way that you will stave off insanity and shield yourself from the putridness that passes for news…
August 31, 2020, 6:00 AM IST
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MSD- One of a kind?
August 24, 2020, 4:00 AM IST
PM Modi has paid rich tributes to M S Dhoni holding him up as someone who epitomises the ‘spirit of New India’. He is by no means the only one to have described the contributions…
August 24, 2020, 4:00 AM IST
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The entrepreneurship magnet?
August 17, 2020, 3:00 AM IST
Growing up, I never wanted to be an entrepreneur. Coming from a non-business family, the prevalent mental image of business was both negative and distant. It involved money, transactions and loans, things that were considered…
August 17, 2020, 3:00 AM IST
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The power of someplace else
August 10, 2020, 5:00 AM IST
Given its sweeping impact on so many facets of our life, it is natural to think of Covid as a devastating event. We are homebound, we cannot travel, eat out, meet people as we please,…
August 10, 2020, 5:00 AM IST
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That feeling of numbness?
August 3, 2020, 1:30 AM IST
It was a moment of absurdity that seemed so right. A lady participant on India’s loudest news show, decided to eat lunch while others performed their usual rants. By the looks of it, she chewed…
August 3, 2020, 1:30 AM IST
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A matchmaking dead-end?
July 27, 2020, 1:59 AM IST
If there is one show on our TV screens that is creating the most conversation, it is Indian Matchmaking on Netflix. Halfway between a documentary and a reality show, it takes us into the world…
July 27, 2020, 1:59 AM IST
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An unlikely alliance?
July 20, 2020, 1:59 AM IST
For as long as one can remember the worlds of business and activism sat perched comfortably on opposite sides of each other. Activists thought of corporates as blood-sucking leeches that feasted on all forms of…
July 20, 2020, 1:59 AM IST
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Of memory and erasure
July 13, 2020, 5:00 AM IST
Questions are being asked of history. Statues are being toppled, institutions carrying names of those once thought of as great are being asked to reconsider their choice, and a film like Gone With the Wind,…
July 13, 2020, 5:00 AM IST
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The invisible hand of algorithms?
July 6, 2020, 2:00 AM IST
It is an experience that is widely shared. An ad suddenly pops up on social media about something that we were just talking about or even thinking about. Some of these thoughts may not be…
July 6, 2020, 2:00 AM IST
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