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Rishiâs Himalayan feat? Nah! Britain exited Britain years ago. Keep calm and curry onÂ
October 27, 2022, 4:05 AM IST
Everyoneâs been banging on about âourâ man in â10 Browning Streetâ, but these are just our usual âinsurance claimsâ â ensuring that we are the first with everything, from nose jobs to the British PMâsâŠ
October 27, 2022, 4:05 AM IST
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âGâ huzoor: Nothing so new, ji, about the latest telephony
October 6, 2022, 2:05 AM IST
The launch of 5G hijacked the headlines because it is expected to improve the whole spectrum of our lives as speedily. Itâs a Big deal. Really? The âGâ has been around forever. At the topâŠ
October 6, 2022, 2:05 AM IST
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Beastly tails: A gentrified jungle for posh cats in fancy furs and hot wheelsÂ
September 22, 2022, 2:05 AM IST
The PMâs sleek and spotted 72nd âbuddayâ present was a showstopper worthy of Indiaâs own 75th. So, rather than the usual caterwauling let us wish Oban, Tbilisi, Siyaya, Sasha & Co a quick recovery fromâŠ
September 22, 2022, 2:05 AM IST
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Sandwiching cultures: Itâs the original MNC, a co-opting multinational cooperation
September 8, 2022, 2:05 AM IST
The sandwich can be well-bread or working class, white, brown or almost black. Any which way, itâs always filling, whatever the filling. Let no toadie tell us that the Raj introduced this frog into ourâŠ
September 8, 2022, 2:05 AM IST
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Raj Kaput: What we got and giving back to our former rulers
August 25, 2022, 4:05 AM IST
Our present leaders are more obsessed with wiping out an earlier empire (along with a later dynasty) so, other than dismantling Macaulayâs âbabu-creatingâ education system, thereâs some respite from the âTharoorympleâ brand of Raj-bashing. However,âŠ
August 25, 2022, 4:05 AM IST
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Very filmi turn: How very hard the lives of Hindi movie moguls have become
August 23, 2022, 2:05 AM IST
Say I am a Bollywood movie mogul. Life used to be great once. And that was when we would get phone calls from Dubai ka don, have to pay extortion money, and even then haveâŠ
August 23, 2022, 2:05 AM IST
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Flagging concern: The tiranga sets my heart a-flutter. But only if and when it âŠ
July 28, 2022, 2:05 AM IST
⊠comes in its original material and accompanied with due ceremony. The inspired idea of Har Ghar Tiranga has bowed to crass convenience. First they said it no longer has to be made only fromâŠ
July 28, 2022, 2:05 AM IST
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In utter words: A booklet seeking to curb MPsâ use of âunparliamentaryâ language might give rise to verbal shenanigans
July 27, 2022, 2:05 AM IST
An MP, reading while walking, bumps into another MP. 1st MP: Sorry, I was so busy reading I didnât see you. 2nd MP: What are you reading? The latest bestseller? 1st MP: It is aâŠ
July 27, 2022, 2:05 AM IST
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Leo and behold: The National Emblem becomes a bone of contention between the government and the opposition
July 22, 2022, 2:05 AM IST
All of a sudden, an all-guns-blazing Open Season has been declared on the Asiatic lion, a highly protected species of which only some 600 survive in the Gir wildlife sanctuary in Gujarat. Conservationists and animalâŠ
July 22, 2022, 2:05 AM IST
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Late must wait: âFashionably earlyâ is the new cool. About time
July 14, 2022, 2:05 AM IST
Itâs official. Punctuality is back. And on time too. Various US-based arbiters of corporate etiquette say itâs an after-effect of the pandemic. We learnt how much more could be done with hours not wasted onâŠ
July 14, 2022, 2:05 AM IST
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Lena Dena Sena: Just one letter added or changed can create the opposite meaningÂ
June 30, 2022, 2:05 AM IST
It began with âlaughterâ. Adding an âsâ at the beginning of the word, turned it into distinctly unfunny âslaughterâ. So, I started making a list of these single-letter metamorphoses â saving it for a rainyâŠ
June 30, 2022, 2:05 AM IST
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Staging protests: Political drama is always a farce. What a tragedy
June 16, 2022, 2:05 AM IST
If one party stages a protest; the other is sure to dismiss it as natak-bazi. Congress workers put up a âFull Houseâ board outside the ED office where Rahul Gandhi was summoned in the NationalâŠ
June 16, 2022, 2:05 AM IST
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Return of the savages: As summer holidays loom, parents prepare for fresh turbulence
May 23, 2022, 2:05 AM IST
This April was unlike any other. As Covid receded, the mayhem of a new school session loomed large â the real school, not a dining table or the bedroom. It was greeted with wildly mixedâŠ
May 23, 2022, 2:05 AM IST
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Skinned, Alive! Now even coffee beans do a strip tease
May 5, 2022, 2:05 AM IST
Skin is in. Expose it, and you are hot. Consume it, and you are cool. The infallibly readable Sandip Roy informs us that Cascara, brewed from the skin of coffee berries, is what cafe societyâŠ
May 5, 2022, 2:05 AM IST
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Hostile takeovers: When push-the-envelope progressives meet someone like Musk actually pushing the envelope
April 19, 2022, 2:05 AM IST
How great it must be to be Elon Musk. While most of us, when dealt with bad service, can only shout impotently into the phone, âI want to speak to your manager,â he can simplyâŠ
April 19, 2022, 2:05 AM IST
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It used to be hearts: Now they make away with lemons and bridges, the robbers are so upwardly mobile
April 18, 2022, 2:05 AM IST
For the longest time Indians sang only about the theft of hearts: Chura ke dil mera, Dil chori sada ho gaya etc. Which involved sub-robberies, like that of sleep â Neend churayi meri â orâŠ
April 18, 2022, 2:05 AM IST
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Putinâs karma: The seeds of Moscowâs Ukraine misadventure were sown by Russian robber barons in the 1990s
April 15, 2022, 2:05 AM IST
In 1993 Bunny and I were in St Petersburg, Russiaâs second largest city, built by Peter the Great and lauded as the âVenice of the Northâ because of its Italianate architecture designed by Domenico TrezziniâŠ
April 15, 2022, 2:05 AM IST
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Head-mistress, fired: This morality business gets curiouser and furiouser
April 7, 2022, 2:05 AM IST
âHeadmistressâ is the latest victim of official/ officious morality. Maharashtraâs education officer, Ravindra Katolkar, recently ordered it replaced with âheadmasterâ regardless of gender since thatâs the only term recognised by the rule book. He citedâŠ
April 7, 2022, 2:05 AM IST
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Costly combos: Supposedly cost-cutting package deals can give you more than what you bargained for
April 1, 2022, 2:05 AM IST
Buying some instant coffee for me online, Bunny came across an economic anomaly. If she bought one packet of the product it would cost x rupees. If she bought 2 packets, the cost would beâŠ
April 1, 2022, 2:05 AM IST
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Decoupled? Bah! It is lose-lose trying to prise apart cuddlers in the park
March 31, 2022, 2:05 AM IST
These hardy perennials of public gardens cannot be uprooted. Good. Romance shouldnât become woe-mance. Take these tales from two cities. Mumbaiâs Victoria Terminus is now Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus. Kolkataâs as-unmissable Victoria Memorial retains itsâŠ
March 31, 2022, 2:05 AM IST
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