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Ex is the new BFF: I’ll be there for you, is the new divorce duet. Just not the way Kanye sings it
March 21, 2022, 2:05 AM IST
While we’ve been worrying over gale mein khich-khich being Covid or not, and whether love handles are easier to hide than thunder thighs, separated couples have been slowly inching closer and almost holding hands. We…
March 21, 2022, 2:05 AM IST
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Open letter to ‘bad boy’ Putin from his desi fan club
March 13, 2022, 4:37 AM IST
Aaderneey Putinji Sir, Privet! Zdrahst-Vooy! A-lyo! From your friends and admirers in India. Aap ka toh jawab nahi, sirji! Dikha diya, duniya ko! We are chanting Hindi-Russi bhai bhai, and hoping the Chinese won’t mind…
March 13, 2022, 4:37 AM IST
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From queues to Q-Comm: Jhatpat jaldi-haldi or fasta-pasta fatafat
March 10, 2022, 2:05 AM IST
Has time also become a four-letter word, screwing the grocery delivery business? Looks like it, seeing how every player is trying to outdo the latest quickie of its rivals. Eat your heart out, pizza. You…
March 10, 2022, 2:05 AM IST
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Poha politics: The humble chevda moves from beaten rice to beaten netas
February 24, 2022, 2:05 AM IST
Maharashtra isn’t among the poll-bound states but the state of its politics is as much of a finger-pointing, thoo-thoo, mean-mean, blame-shame arena as those in the throes of the electoral dice. In the latest slugfest,…
February 24, 2022, 2:05 AM IST
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Love, factually: How much of it will we really have amidst the schmaltz of V-Day?
February 10, 2022, 2:05 AM IST
The usual suspectors may not go after a celebration dedicated to love since they will be busy spreading this poll-time’s agenda of hate. In any case, their aversion to a so-called foreign perversion is unfounded….
February 10, 2022, 2:05 AM IST
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Don’t Abide With Me: So, what else should be Beating (a) Retreat?
January 27, 2022, 2:05 AM IST
It’s been quite an Embattled Hymn of the Republic, this Ganatantra Diwas. First it was Mamata & Co crying ‘Phoul’ over tableaux choices. Then came the protest against the jawan jyoti no longer being individually…
January 27, 2022, 2:05 AM IST
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Angry boys: Male gaze is an academic construct but male glare is a social media mania
January 17, 2022, 2:05 AM IST
In the 1980s, coy-ed was the earliest formal lesson children received in the gender divide. Boys who broke the “no yakking in class” rule would be sent to the girls’ row. Though all children look…
January 17, 2022, 2:05 AM IST
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Oh-My-Cron
January 15, 2022, 1:23 PM IST
“Tilt your head back,” the technician instructed as he advanced threateningly towards me with a swab stick in his hand. I felt as if I am going to be stabbed. To stop imagining things, I…
January 15, 2022, 1:23 PM IST
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New GST rule: Gargle, Steam, Temperature is my taxing regimen
January 13, 2022, 2:05 AM IST
The omnipresent, omnivorous, ominous Omicron has created a never-before phenomenon. The haves are speedily outnumbering the have-nots. It’s not just an economic marvel. Epidemiologists say that this insatiable but less virulent mutant could turn out…
January 13, 2022, 2:05 AM IST
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Medical Humor: Dr. Nobody
December 17, 2021, 5:58 PM IST
Dr Nobody during his early learning years in medical school: *Excitedly learns how to take a precise history from a patient. Learns the importance of family history in case diagnosis* Dr Nobody’s first history presentation…
December 17, 2021, 5:58 PM IST
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Walking on eggshells: Dissing Bengali Egg Torka Dal? Clearly I wasn’t ‘deem’ed fit
December 16, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
Oodi baba! Am I a glutton for punishment, na ki? Like us Parsis, Bengalis are ‘first responders’ to every issue; perceived slights turn them into a Rapid Reaction Force. So when last week, I passed…
December 16, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
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VOCational guidance: We are bugged by all kinds of Variants of Concern
December 2, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
Just as the normalcy train had resumed services, the B.1.1.529 strain has made it screech to a halt. The WHO pulled the alarm chain. South Africa and Botswana had conscientiously reported the new variant to…
December 2, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
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Adda-icted in Kolkata: Ei mago! The Maar-war-i has taken over the totemic Bangali adda
November 18, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
‘Kaaltchural appropriation cholbey na!’ Amader adda has been Marwarified beyond recognition, but no one is marching in protest against this eggless coup. Actually, no one is marching against anything in Kolkata. The only ‘unionised’ stuff…
November 18, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
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You love travelling? I don’t. Usually my nerves are frayed even before the vacation has started
November 8, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
Being a Bengali, I know I am supposed to love “bhromon” or travel, and I don’t know whether I will be dubbed a “bohiragato”, if I confess that I just do not. Because you see,…
November 8, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
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Glasgow galactica: Will COP26 be just another gabfest? Who cares, we’re all into space now
November 2, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
In HG Wells’s 1898 sci-fi page-turner, The War of the Worlds, Martians train ‘envious eyes’ on Earth. Then Mars attacks, deploying heat-rays and terrifying tripod-machines. We’re told theirs is a dying planet, whereas Earth is…
November 2, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
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Fuel for thought: The soaring prices of petrol and diesel caused by government taxes amount to a virtual ‘rasta roko’
October 27, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
A character in a Hermann Hesse novel observes that “Movement creates obstacles.” If you don’t move but stay put you’ll face no obstacles. The Greek thinker Xeno took this thought further by saying that all…
October 27, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
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Solar flexus: The India-UK green grid gives a new twist to old empire
October 21, 2021, 2:00 AM IST
Forget about the empire striking back. The former ruler and ruled are all set to tango together. Or rather suntango together. If Modi-Johnson sounds like an electrical fittings company, it’s not far off the mark….
October 21, 2021, 2:00 AM IST
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Shortchanged: There’s no way to minimise the woes of the vertically challenged
October 7, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
Don’t even try; it is too tall an order. We, five-feet-or-unders, may or may not find comfort in the recent report that while people worldwide grew taller between 2006 and 2016, the average height of…
October 7, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
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Health and wealth: Things which are good for you to eat and drink are even better for someone else’s bank account
October 6, 2021, 2:00 AM IST
According to an old saying, health is wealth. Like not a few tropes of vintage provenance it has more than an element of truth in it. Bunny and I often go to a small neighbourhood…
October 6, 2021, 2:00 AM IST
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Ex-post factor: G-23 takes on Congress’s ‘Ji, huzoor’ culture but has Rahul-Priyanka’s G-2 shown who’s boss?
October 5, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
Kapil Sibal recently said he and like-minded Congresswalas are ‘G-23, not ji huzoor-23’. That reportedly prompted some tomato-lobbing Congress workers to shout ‘Leave the party!’ while chanting ‘Rahul Gandhi zindabad!’ Gee, you’d say. Such loyalty…
October 5, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
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