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Don’t do it: Discussing Taliban fashion, old vs new, gives it a big leg up
August 24, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
Okay here is the thing. If you write a piece on how the new generation of Taliban is accessorising fashionably, Taliban meets Ray-Ban, as if it was the Fall collection of Kabul (I am not…
August 24, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
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The Girlfriend Diaries: Watch out, all-women road trips are speeding your way
August 23, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
Alia Bhatt, Katrina Kaif and Priyanka Chopra are going on a road trip. Oh, to take off with other girls on a whim just to feel the wind in your hair! No need to pack…
August 23, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
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Out of Africa: We are all descended from the Mitochondrial Eve, the First Woman
August 20, 2021, 2:00 AM IST
As India’s first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru wanted his country to cultivate a ‘scientific temper’, a term which not a few present-day netas – who assert that cow urine can cure Covid-19 and that bovines…
August 20, 2021, 2:00 AM IST
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Finer protocols: Guess who isn’t coming to lunch, though the afternoon is shot to pieces
August 17, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
It is one of those lazy holiday lunchtimes and you are looking forward to a sleepy afternoon and some down time when the doorbell rings. And it is not Amazon but these people you are…
August 17, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
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Inglorious son: Where would family be if everyone was super judgy of their parents like Quentin Tarantino?
August 16, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
Hai hai what an ungrateful son. Is he even human? Quentin Tarantino, with a net worth of roughly $120 million, shares not a penny of that success with his parents. No house, no vacation, no…
August 16, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
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Weight and watch: Lockdown inactivity has led to a flourishing business which lives off the fat of the land
August 13, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
Ever since the pandemic struck, there has been a sharp rise in the incidence of obesity among the urban middle class, with young people being the worst affected. With restrictions in place and educational institutions…
August 13, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
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I-Day to We-Day: Neeraj Chopra & Co have given us a booster shot to revive true nationalism
August 12, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
Independence Day is round the corner. Beggar children are making the most of it, waving little paper flags at the car-borne idling at traffic lights. The tricolour has just had its greatest outing in a…
August 12, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
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Bats about cricket: Because of our obsession with one game we largely ignore all others
August 11, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
As a nation are we spoilsports? Do we, unintentionally, spoil all our other sports and games because of our monomania for cricket? Sports commentators and others are once again raising this often-asked question in the…
August 11, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
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Screen savers: Bollywood must be readying to bring the Olympic story to you, but you may not recognise it
August 10, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
Anytime India has a national achievement, wins a medal in Olympics or successfully goes to space, you can be sure that there is a flurry of phone calls in Bollywood on getting the rights for…
August 10, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
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Olympics for netas: Politicians can also win medals. Some suggestions on possible winners
August 9, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi: Medal for synchronised swimming. Brother and sister tweet in perfectly synchronised harmony when it comes to taking issue with the government. Akhilesh Yadav: Medal for cycling. Every five years before…
August 9, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
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Stun guns: Our Olympians have left world toppers gobsmacked. Us too.
August 5, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
Forget blond stunners like Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce or Alica Schmidt. Our athletes have done their own stunning at Tokyo. Last Saturday, PV Sindhu ‘stunned’ China’s He Bing Jiao. On Sunday, the Indian hockey team ‘stunned’ no-longer-Great…
August 5, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
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Deadly game: Life and Death are age-old adversaries across the chessboard of history
August 4, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
Life and Death face each other across an ageless chessboard. Life: I have the white pieces, so I’ll play first. Death: But of course. Unless you make your move, I can’t make my countermove. Life:…
August 4, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
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The right candidate: Only those below 35 need apply. Salary will be commensurate with experience. Catch-22
August 3, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
Job ads are such giveaways. ‘We are looking for just the right candidate.’ Really, and all this while you have been getting the wrong ones, what sort of HR do you have? ‘We are a…
August 3, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
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The lure of Comics
August 2, 2021, 5:00 AM IST
There is something about the comic book format that is so appealing. Growing up, bliss was nothing more than an unread comic book waiting to be dived into. It really didn’t matter what was featured…
August 2, 2021, 5:00 AM IST
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Don’t needle us: Two medical advances take the sting out of Covid vaccinations and blood sugar tests
July 30, 2021, 2:00 AM IST
If, like me and a number of people I know, you suffer from trypanophobia – a fear of needles – there’s some good news. An Ahmedabad-based pharma company has reportedly developed an anti-corona vaccine which…
July 30, 2021, 2:00 AM IST
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Coronalympics: ‘The Delta variant is outcompeting all other previous versions’
July 29, 2021, 2:00 AM IST
Delta held our attention and headlines these past months and it wasn’t going to let the Olympics steal its meddle. So, just three days into the great Games, came a Reuters report proving that this…
July 29, 2021, 2:00 AM IST
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Spaced-out tourism: Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos have out-of-this-world travel plans for an overcrowded Earth
July 28, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
Even as hill resorts in north India from Manali to Mussoorie were besieged by visitors from the hot summer plains in a rising tide of ‘revenge tourism’ fuelled by the prolonged pandemic lockdown which created…
July 28, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
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Bystander’s sorrow: That nobody is trying to surveil me is tragic commentary on my insignificance
July 27, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
The list of people being spied upon supposedly/allegedly by the authorities is out and I am pissed. Because once again, I have been excluded from the cool kids list. What am I doing wrong? Some…
July 27, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
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No pocket science: What do Indian billionaires think about the space odyssey of two Western ones?
July 26, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
Billionaires don’t seem to need spaceships to get their gravity to zero. Jeff Bezos’s comments after his space odyssey were so flighty that they made the giant leap for humankind’s tone-deafness. He thanked his employees…
July 26, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
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I got both: That’s the new pickup line in Covid vaccine era
July 23, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
The vaccine arrived quite like Vasco da Gama did in India, with a swagger. And then came the language problem. Garble, desi gyan and a government site in English – everyone’s an Alice in Vaccineland….
July 23, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
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