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Beyond the Prime Meme: Reading while commuting is a delight open to all – including those on three wheels
October 4, 2021, 2:00 AM IST
In Ahmedabad, news you can use is pinched to its tiniest crumbs. It is not uncommon to see people in autorickshaws carrying a page of a newspaper, which apart from containing hot developments also packages…
October 4, 2021, 2:00 AM IST
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Woke-up call: Sometimes we have to unlearn language to get our language understood
October 1, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
I recently came across a newspaper article which asked me if I was ‘woke’. I thought it was a pretty dumb thing to ask. If I were reading the article obviously I was ‘woke’, unless…
October 1, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
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Dosa dilemma: When we have too many choices to make we might not have any choice at all
September 29, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
In the Calcutta of my childhood the best place to eat a dosa was the Madras Tiffin Room on Chittaranjan Avenue. Taken there by an accompanying adult I would choose between a plain dosa or…
September 29, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
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British bugaboo: The UK has discovered a super-sneaky new virus which targets Indian vaccine certificates
September 24, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
The British health authorities claim to have identified and isolated a unique, super-smart variant of the coronavirus which specifically targets people of Indian nationality who come to the UK as visitors. All such individuals, who’ve…
September 24, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
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Might and mane: People are returning to offices with noticeable hair jobs
September 23, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
It’s a bald truth. Receding hairlines have gone into free fall. A recent NYT report noticed that post-WFH offices are filled with the hair apparent. This suggests that the long months of the lockdown were…
September 23, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
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Maximum cities: Urban India is swallowing up rural India at a faster and faster rate
September 22, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
When Bunny and I moved to it from Delhi 25 years ago, Gurgaon really was a gaon, a village. At least the new Gurgaon was; the congested town of old Gurgaon was tucked away beyond…
September 22, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
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Covid, what Covid? Pandemic suffering identity crisis as people stop fearing it
September 20, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
Covid got Covid and died. That’s the rumour. Which explains why people are overflowing helter-skelter into streets and sidewalks, flying in the sky and swimming in the sea, eating out, going pubbing and trying out…
September 20, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
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Big ‘ben’ strikes again: Women are far more powerful than powerful men think
September 17, 2021, 2:00 AM IST
London’s iconic clock is wrapped under five-year restoration scaffolding; its famous bongs won’t strike till early 2022. Gujarat’s ‘Big Ben’, Anandiben Patel was rapped five years ago after Hardik Patel’s violent quota stir, stripped of…
September 17, 2021, 2:00 AM IST
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Weather vain: While climate change can be predicted, day-to-day rain or shine remains a guessing game
September 16, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
While we worry about climate change, we tend to overlook weather change. Climate is the sum total of meteorological phenomena as seen over years, decades, and even centuries. Weather is the same phenomena viewed on…
September 16, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
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Signs of our times: Enter at your own risk, it says. A 30% risk where they escort you off or a 100% where they shoot on sight?
September 14, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
Have you ever walked past one of those doors that say Staff Only and had this absurd desire to check it out? Even more so if it says Authorised Personnel Only. Are they some sort…
September 14, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
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Festival dotcom: Logging onto the Almighty makes for divine connectivity in Covid times
September 13, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
Ganesh Chaturthi celebrations begin the festive season, with Durga Puja and Diwali ahead. But scientists and doctors are warning of a third wave of Covid and this time it may be nastier variants. The spirit…
September 13, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
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Invoke and outvoke: To remove obstacles, channel your inner Ganesh
September 9, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
Tomorrow is Ganesh Chaturthi. Since everyone wants to end obstacles and kickstart auspicious beginnings, he is the pantheon’s most secularly worshipped deity. He is also a sporting kind of god. You can depict him in…
September 9, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
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Romancing yourself: That’s what your selfie is about. Cheers to filters and good angles
September 7, 2021, 2:00 AM IST
In the movie One Hour Photo, there is a line which goes like this: “If these pictures have anything important to say to future generations, it’s this: I was here. I existed. I was young,…
September 7, 2021, 2:00 AM IST
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Khushboo and bad boo: My aural traditions are better than yours. Smellier too
September 3, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
Scent of a Woman won Al Pacino an Oscar. Now there’s a Scent of a Nation. Australians are so addicted to their Vegemite spread that Melbourne has awarded heritage status to the yeasty aroma exuded…
September 3, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
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Class struggle is real: Teens had almost forgotten how school was. Not all of them are loving returning to it
September 2, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
As the Delhi government announced the reopening of city schools, a pall of gloom descended on my home. “This means I’ll have to pay attention in class and can’t just get away with googling answers,”…
September 2, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
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Desirably desi: A word which once had second-rate associations is now a matter of pride
September 1, 2021, 2:00 AM IST
Not so very long ago the word ‘desi’ was often used by us desis as something of less essential worth in comparison with a comparable product or service which was of foreign – preferred pronunciation…
September 1, 2021, 2:00 AM IST
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Life’s about nashta: Never let it get cold. And don’t answer the boss’s call while you are having it
August 31, 2021, 2:00 AM IST
Very often when you speak over the phone to friends and family they ask you if you have had nashta-pani. It is a cultural mandate and they are not asking for the menu: You don’t…
August 31, 2021, 2:00 AM IST
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See the small picture: A Jeeves lesson for Joe bhai, to help him cut through foreign thickets
August 30, 2021, 2:00 AM IST
In 2006, Joe Biden droned on till his gaffe bomb dropped: “You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin’ Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I’m not joking.” The joke is that…
August 30, 2021, 2:00 AM IST
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Patriot games: The Olympics can resemble the legendary white elephant of popular lore
August 27, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
According to popular lore, when the king of the country then known as Siam wanted to punish someone who’d displeased him, he would give the person the unsolicited gift of a white elephant, a rare…
August 27, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
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Who’s afraid of third wave? The festive season is upon us. Let us crowd out coronavirus
August 26, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
It used to be about life vs livelihood. The economy was the reason why everyone wanted to open malls and Mumbai’s commuter network. Now it is about life vs liveliness. Malayali Onam kickstarted the serial…
August 26, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
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