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Big Bhaiyya is watching: Which means he won’t let us watch what we want to 😊
March 11, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
To the diktats on what to eat, whom to love and how to pray, add ‘what to watch’. The latest example of ‘minimum government’ is the imminent control of OTT platforms. You could call it…
March 11, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
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Women of the Year: Many were XXed out, but some still gave cause for applause 😜
March 4, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
March 8 is round the corner. But a Women’s Day is only as good as our fortunes in the past year. Take the Dickensian paradox. ‘It was the best of times’ for XX chromosomies? You’re…
March 4, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
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Breaking news: Fair, frank and fearless? Mad or wot? The powers demand the opposite 😊
February 25, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
Should we add another F word to what’s being done to media? ‘Breaking News’ was once our profession’s most coveted slug, but television anchors had set it totally adrift with such absurd overuse. Now please…
February 25, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
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Power toolkits: Cut her to size? Here’s a user’s manual for the DIY sarkar 😜
February 18, 2021, 2:00 AM IST
A toolkit used to be a household essential. All of a sudden it has become the manual for sedition-secession. In the past week, Disha Ravi has turned from eco-activist to Khalistani. Apart from the ominous-omniscient…
February 18, 2021, 2:00 AM IST
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Kitchen Kichie-Coo: If food be the music of love, read on this V-Day 😊
February 11, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
Next Sunday is Valentine’s day, but how can we celebrate it when BJP chief ministers have fallen head over heels in laws branding love as anti-national? Jihad is declared on all forms, bar Hindutva’s authorised…
February 11, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
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Spelling out the Budget – where highlights of the finance bill live up to FM’s name
February 4, 2021, 3:00 AM IST
There are 16 letters in Nirmala Sitharaman’s name. Among her predecessors, they are matched by TT Krishnamachari, but pipped by the likes of RK Shanmukham Chetty, Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna, the two Chavans, Yashwantrao B and…
February 4, 2021, 3:00 AM IST
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NaMa MoDidi: East is east and best is best, and ne’er the twain shall greet 😊
January 28, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
Before Gujarat’s storied chief minister souped up Ahmedabad’s Kankaria lake, the gentle Reuben David had built a small but lively zoo on its shore. Here, he had created a Biblical ideal, the antithesis of the…
January 28, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
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SoU chhey? The answer to ‘What’s this?’ is ‘All things Gujarati’ 😊
January 21, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
Gujarat is the flavour of the fortnight. This week, the PM remotely flagged off eight trains connecting six states to Kevadia, site of his dream project, the Statue of Unity (SoU). Last week, the Shiv…
January 21, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
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High-flying exec or housewife, it’s the same unpaid drudgery
January 17, 2021, 6:00 AM IST
Kamal Haasan, Kangana Ranaut, and now the Supreme Court. If the energy spent on glorifying/damning/quipping about unpaid housework could get it done instead, no woman would have to do the dishes ever again. At least…
January 17, 2021, 6:00 AM IST
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WhatsApprehension: Forget Whatsnoop, anyone can mine big data from groups 😊
January 14, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
The current blockbuster seems to be ‘Saving Privacy Ryan’. From the Chairman to the chai-man, everyone’s Signalling concern and sending out distress Telegrams because WhatsApp changed its policy, and allegedly has enough leaks to give…
January 14, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
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Vaccing and Whining: Why the current vaccine war is like just another day in politics 😜
January 7, 2021, 2:00 AM IST
This was to be a declaration of freedom, telling Covid to Quit India, and declaring ‘Swavaccine is my birthright and I shall have it.’ But just when PM-ji proudly proclaimed that the world will look…
January 7, 2021, 2:00 AM IST
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Thank You, 2020: No earnings but much yearning and even more learnings 😊
December 31, 2020, 2:05 AM IST
This past year forced us to forget so many of our certainties, but let’s take stock of the insights we gained. Though its leitmotif, the novel coronavirus, was no fiction, it did reflect great literary…
December 31, 2020, 2:05 AM IST
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Cheering up The Season: Christmas Carols once again tweaked for our times 😊
December 24, 2020, 2:05 AM IST
’Tis the season to be jolly, but the only thing to go ‘tra-la-la’ about is that it ends this year of lockdown and downturn. It looked like 2021 would herald a turnaround thanks to The…
December 24, 2020, 2:05 AM IST
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Acne and ecstasy: Want a central vista to an emotional pandemic? Be an Agony Aunt 😊
December 17, 2020, 2:05 AM IST
Mumbai Mirror shuts shop this Saturday, also pulling down the shutters on my advice column to the lovelorn and life-torn. For 12 years, Giving Gyan said Grow up/ Shut up/ Face up/ Stand up to…
December 17, 2020, 2:05 AM IST
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Vaxing eloquent: Dr WhatsApp’s info is only 10% safe but 90% effective in injecting panic 😜
December 10, 2020, 2:00 AM IST
The imminent vaccine has given new ammo to the amateur experts. So, the pros are busier undoing the mis/ disinformation of these cons than doing their actual job of disseminating the true facts. My WhatsApp…
December 10, 2020, 2:00 AM IST
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Nap-a Valley: That quick lie-downer is in fact quite an upper 😜
December 3, 2020, 2:05 AM IST
The woke are waking up to the value of the ‘quick swoon on the sofa’. About time too. A recent article called ‘Let’s Stop Nap-shaming’ was an eye-opener. Its celeb advocates included the dishy Gwyneth…
December 3, 2020, 2:05 AM IST
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Stray thoughts: Prompted by ‘Apro Ratan’ giving every dog its Diwali day 😜
November 26, 2020, 2:00 AM IST
Ratan Tata certainly deserves a bow – and a Wow! The philanthrialist posted pix of spending Diwali with the local strays cared for by and at the conglomerate’s headquarters. Canine you believe it? There’s a…
November 26, 2020, 2:00 AM IST
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Words are all we have: Twist, turn, join, split, bend them to our whim 😊
November 19, 2020, 2:05 AM IST
Thanks to the gentleman deferred to as ‘VC’ at the TOI empire, I came to know that my fun with words had the grand label of ‘neologisms’. Thanks to my friend, Shashi, I’m putting down…
November 19, 2020, 2:05 AM IST
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Chiefs & Indians: Could Uncle Sam become Uncle Samosa thanks to all the Kamala rah-rah 😜
November 12, 2020, 2:00 AM IST
When Nixon put Spiro Agnew on his ticket in 1969, it was joked that ‘Jackie got herself a Greek running-mate, and now everyone wants one.’ The reference was to the assassinated John F Kennedy’s widow…
November 12, 2020, 2:00 AM IST
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Self-life: Being mortal, all of us have a go-by date
November 5, 2020, 2:05 AM IST
Arun Shourie’s latest, deep-thought book is ‘Preparing for Death’. This used to be the burden of the old. Now, to adapt Yeats, the times ‘are changed, changed utterly. A terribly uncertainty is born.’ Even just…
November 5, 2020, 2:05 AM IST
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