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The chef as guru
October 2, 2013, 10:24 PM IST
Sermons in the salmon? Marketing mantras in the moongbean? Or HRD tips in the harissa? Celebrity chefs are well-placed to dish out the wisdom of the sage. Among them is Australia’s Gary Mehigan. Count me…
October 2, 2013, 10:24 PM IST
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Dost on toast
September 25, 2013, 10:41 PM IST
Is ‘friendless’ King Khan the poorest guy in Bollywood? Shah Rukh Khan was quoted thus this week: “One day I said ‘Let’s call friends over’ and my kids said ‘You don’t have friends, Papa’.” Yeooo,…
September 25, 2013, 10:41 PM IST
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Let he who is without racism be the first one to be stoned
September 18, 2013, 11:07 PM IST
Shame on these Americans. They think they are so superior. Or wot? How mean they were to the ethnic Indian girl who was crowned Miss America even though she was born in the USA. OK,…
September 18, 2013, 11:07 PM IST
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Justice vs bloodlust
September 16, 2013, 8:40 AM IST
Please, let’s not call it ‘historic’. There is much that should disturb us about the immediate aftermath of last Friday’s death sentence. It will by no means be a ‘deterrent’ as the college girls said…
September 16, 2013, 8:40 AM IST
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Heathen confessions
September 11, 2013, 9:43 PM IST
It’s apt. Ganesh Chaturthi presides over the auspicious start of the festive season. The frenzied beating of drums has announced that it is now also open season. You are free to shoot down any spoilsport…
September 11, 2013, 9:43 PM IST
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Lungi tunes
September 4, 2013, 10:19 PM IST
After Chennai Express thundered into the box office, everyone’s headed to Madras Cafe. Like that film, this ubiquitous eatery could also cause heartburn. All week, the media has belched up the four-metro study in which…
September 4, 2013, 10:19 PM IST
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Don’t make her lose her face
September 2, 2013, 9:55 PM IST
First of all, a caveat. This is a trauma that only a raped woman experiences. She alone knows its intensity, and what she must live with, within herself. Therefore, she alone is entitled to make…
September 2, 2013, 9:55 PM IST
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Safety’s not a favour
August 28, 2013, 9:25 PM IST
‘Why was she there in the first place? Didn’t she have any sense?’ This rhetorical question keeps spicing up the talk du jour, the Shakti Mills rape case. It is offensive, even when not compounded…
August 28, 2013, 9:25 PM IST
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Letting go
August 21, 2013, 10:44 PM IST
How do you decide when to stop trying to save a beloved dad?
August 21, 2013, 10:44 PM IST
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Chauri Chaura is now pronounced ‘Chori Chori’
August 14, 2013, 10:38 PM IST
Independence Day should be an august presence, but it may again descend to a December of bleak stock-taking. We are told that far from redeeming our long-years-ago tryst in full measure, we can do so…
August 14, 2013, 10:38 PM IST
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Fifty shades of dark
August 7, 2013, 9:47 PM IST
Fair and lovely. Why should the two prance hand in hand like filmi romancers? Why should they be as inseparable as daal and bhat, chaniya and choli, or politicians and politicking? The activist-actor Nandita Das…
August 7, 2013, 9:47 PM IST
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The ‘Powerty’ line
July 31, 2013, 10:52 PM IST
Why not replace the ‘v’ and win a positive victory?
July 31, 2013, 10:52 PM IST
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Living with Atro-cities
July 24, 2013, 10:38 PM IST
Give them this day their daily bribes and forgive them their potholes. Forget their Detroit. Look at our detritus. Forget hi-tech number plates, give us good, low-tech roads. In Monday’s TOI, Maharashtra’s transport secretary told…
July 24, 2013, 10:38 PM IST
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Puppy love lost
July 17, 2013, 9:46 PM IST
Narendrabhai has been in dogged pursuit of the bitch goddess, success, so naturally he will have puppies on his mind — or under his car. The latest imModirate statement has again put him in the…
July 17, 2013, 9:46 PM IST
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The Gay Gatsby
July 10, 2013, 10:32 PM IST
Behind The Candelabra is over the top but it gets under my skin.
July 10, 2013, 10:32 PM IST
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An outsider parties with Global Rich Indians
July 3, 2013, 10:11 PM IST
It’s a hot Sunday evening in London, and there’s such a crush in the foyer of The Dorchester’s banqueting suite that it’s a wonder the ice-sculpted chalice of pink and ivory hydrangeas doesn’t melt. The…
July 3, 2013, 10:11 PM IST
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Girl uninterrupted: Investing in girls and women is not just the right thing to do, it’s also the smart thing
July 1, 2013, 10:16 PM IST
‘Shrushti’ means ‘world’. It’s the name of an unknown young Indian girl. Is there any other kind? Good question, but the world has come to hear of our little Shrushti thanks to The Girl Tree…
July 1, 2013, 10:16 PM IST
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‘Apro Charles’ in London
June 26, 2013, 9:28 PM IST
Reverse empire. There’s no dearth of it in London. For sure, worthies from other erstwhile colonies shine here, but the ‘brightest jewel’ must radiate the greatest luminaries, no? Lakshmi Mittal, who has tired of his…
June 26, 2013, 9:28 PM IST
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Watch the watcher
June 19, 2013, 9:02 PM IST
Let’s reverse the telescope and turn the cyber eye on netas instead There’s been turmoil in the nursery of individual freedom ever since we had the audacity to question USA’s eye-spy games on people’s private…
June 19, 2013, 9:02 PM IST
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Sickophancy
June 12, 2013, 9:11 PM IST
What’s with the body politic? If you had any doubts about it being sick, there’s enough proof thrown up every day. The fever has been unusually virulent ever since Narendra Modi was anointed to lead…
June 12, 2013, 9:11 PM IST
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