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The news noose
January 16, 2013, 9:38 PM IST
“Has your year begun well?” i asked my downstairs neighbour. I was only trying to bridge the awkward silence that pervades in the lift, but the very civil and usually taciturn Mr Shanbhag tore into…
January 16, 2013, 9:38 PM IST
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Borderline cases
January 9, 2013, 8:23 PM IST
Faith is a good option when hope is aimed at — or lost Last week nearly 300 mediapersons converged on Amritsar and then crossed over at the Wagah border to complete our confabulations in Lahore….
January 9, 2013, 8:23 PM IST
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New Year revolution
January 2, 2013, 10:01 PM IST
Wring out the old, ring in the dawn of the Age of Ordinariness ‘May you live in interesting times.’ That’s what the Chinese say when they want to wish ill on someone. My single wish,…
January 2, 2013, 10:01 PM IST
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Mannus horribilis: For women, it has been a year of horror
December 26, 2012, 8:56 PM IST
Nirbhaya. We can give the unnameable Delhi victim a symbolic name. We can turn her into an icon and make a shrine of the hospital bed from which she fights so awesomely to live. But…
December 26, 2012, 8:56 PM IST
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It’s all Maya
December 19, 2012, 10:22 PM IST
Why care about the chronicle of a collective death foretold? Remember those cartoons of wild-eyed prophets of doom wearing sandwich boards which proclaimed ‘Repent, the End of the World is Nigh’? Well, now it’s only…
December 19, 2012, 10:22 PM IST
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Amazing grace
December 12, 2012, 9:06 PM IST
The serene power of Anita Desai and Leila Seth lit up our litfest Mindfests have become the sashaying ground of the cerebral celebrity. They strut about, masters (and mistresses) of the universe and of the…
December 12, 2012, 9:06 PM IST
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One fateful push
December 5, 2012, 10:01 PM IST
It`s still called ‘December 6’. America’s ‘9/11’ hadn`t yet changed the way we label momentous events, so no one talks of ‘6/12’, but it was arguably the first since ‘August 15’ or ‘June 26’ to…
December 5, 2012, 10:01 PM IST
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Mango people pickled
November 28, 2012, 11:00 PM IST
The ‘aam admi’ must indeed feel like the other ‘aam’. He is India’s favourite political fruit, and by that token, has been skinned, squeezed, shredded, chopped, pulped, dried, pickled and chutnified.
November 28, 2012, 11:00 PM IST
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Saheb, FB aur ghulam
November 21, 2012, 10:39 PM IST
Arre, bhau, what this Facebook-Seshbook means? Any face you show and you can be booked? Means, look at what happened to that young Shaheen. She was only honouring the legacy of Balasaheb, no? Like him, she was saying exactly what she felt…
November 21, 2012, 10:39 PM IST
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The whole nine yards
November 14, 2012, 8:20 PM IST
In Soniaspeak, design means ‘Never having to say you are sari’ Extinction looms large over traditional textiles, so Sonia Gandhi’s NIFT-y tips need to be taken seriously. Addressing the graduating students of the fashion institute…
November 14, 2012, 8:20 PM IST
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No city for young women
November 11, 2012, 9:34 PM IST
Mumbai has awoken again to a spectre that’s never really asleep. On November 7, a Spanish exchange student was raped in her flat. A day later Aryanka Hosbetkar had a corrosive chemical thrown at her face. These two women have…
November 11, 2012, 9:34 PM IST
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Litfest, pitfest
November 7, 2012, 9:50 PM IST
With our own TOI litfest coming up soon, we’re desperately seeking controversy OMG! We were basking in our fabulous line-up for the forthcoming Times of India Literary Carnival, but now we’ve got frozen feet. Clearly,…
November 7, 2012, 9:50 PM IST
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Greed. Not a deadly sin, merely a fallen angel
November 5, 2012, 5:47 AM IST
A twice-a-week series explores ‘ Greed, The City, And The Pursuit Of Happiness‘ , the central theme of this year’s Times of India Literary Carnival, December 7-9 , Mehboob Studios. When we decided to launch…
November 5, 2012, 5:47 AM IST
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Hurricane Indy
October 31, 2012, 10:40 PM IST
Sandy is a day at the beach. Our neta-hurricanes cane harder. We have known them all. Hurricane Randy, Hurricane Dandy, er uhmm, not quite yet Hurricane Ghandy with an ‘i’, so why such a fuss…
October 31, 2012, 10:40 PM IST
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Toilet straining: Jairam’s bottom-up approach to save women’s dignity
October 24, 2012, 9:39 PM IST
The minister for rural sanitation has lost his sanity, say his critics who seem to have lined up like rows of dawn defecators. When he said toilets were a higher priority than temples, Hindu fundamentalists…
October 24, 2012, 9:39 PM IST
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Alys and Faiz
October 17, 2012, 10:03 PM IST
One poet, two jails and history in a cache of love letters Salima Hashmi is successful ‘in her own right’ as we love to say. The Pakistani art expert and empowerment activist can assert her…
October 17, 2012, 10:03 PM IST
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The unbearable importance of being Amitabh
October 10, 2012, 11:14 PM IST
Dear Mr Bachchan, Here’s wishing you many happy returns of today with your family, film colleagues, friends and fans, which, i guess, adds up to approximately half the world. Does that make you obscenely lucky?…
October 10, 2012, 11:14 PM IST
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Rail fare upped (We are talking about food)
October 3, 2012, 10:48 PM IST
Western Railway is about to train its guns on its food. The Mumbai-Delhi Rajdhani will shortly introduce a “wide range of cuisines”, plus cater for the “increasingly health-conscious passenger”. Ho-hum. These blandishments are meant initially…
October 3, 2012, 10:48 PM IST
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Travels with Raj
September 26, 2012, 9:09 PM IST
So, Raj Travels finally succumbed to its king-sized travails last Monday, ending its four-decade- long tour. The beginning of the end came when its debt-beleaguered owner jumped off Mumbai’s Bandra-Worli Sealink barely two months ago….
September 26, 2012, 9:09 PM IST
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Similes sans smiles
September 19, 2012, 9:36 PM IST
We should all learn to avoid cliches, not ‘like the plague’ but, perhaps ‘like a tainted politician’. The headlines may make you throw up, but they also throw up great opportunities for creative and contemporary…
September 19, 2012, 9:36 PM IST
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