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Outdated dates: Why we tend to hang on to all sorts of things till they become useless
July 22, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
Having sprained my foot walking, I found a tube of anti-inflammatory cream in the recesses of a medicine container in which we keep first-aid items. I applied the cream, as directed for a couple of…
July 22, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
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In public view: For all our talk of privacy our lives are an open book to just about everyone
July 21, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
In the ongoing stand-off between the government and social media sites, one of the issues involved is that of the right to privacy. But just how private are our supposedly private lives? How much, or…
July 21, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
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Press 3 again: My adventures with Funnybank and its busy bee agents
July 20, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
I don’t get it. If all their agents are busy at 2am either they have a pretty messed up bank or they need more agents. Then the disembodied voice asks me if I wish to…
July 20, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
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Not so stiff upper lip: Sitting in a corner of a gymkhana club, ye olde Brown Sahibs discuss English football racism
July 19, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
Gymkhana Member 1: Morning, Brigadier. Do you have time for a quick Gin & Tonic with a dash of Angostura Bitters? Gymkhana Member 2: Certainly, old chap. The chota peg on the rocks and Shepherd’s…
July 19, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
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Bot rot! Has Customer Interface wiped out the human race?
July 15, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
Help! There’s a robot in my Helpline. Jeff Bezos will soon follow Richard Branson and Sirisha Bandla, another appropriated Indian-American, into outer space, but our cyberspace has been taken over by invisible aliens. When did…
July 15, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
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Let’s fake it! The coronavirus has given the Indian talent for jugaad greater scope
July 14, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
It was bound to happen sooner or later, and what’s surprising is that it didn’t happen sooner: A case of a fake anti-virus vaccine has been reported from Kolkata, where Trinamool Congress MP Mimi Chakraborty…
July 14, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
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Best inheritance: Nothing beats the genes of metabolism. So that food bounces off you even in your 40s
July 13, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
There was a time I used to be jealous of many things – of those who went pandal-hopping with a girlfriend during Durga Pujo, and those that were good enough to represent their school or…
July 13, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
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Litigation trouble: A tendency to go to court over trivial matters has put a price of 40 paise on Justice
July 12, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
Even as social media in the country and abroad mourned the death in judicial custody pending trial of Father Stan Swamy, the 84-year-old human rights activist who allegedly had links with a banned militant organisation,…
July 12, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
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Gobar gassers: Bullshitting is good. Don’t Dump it. Admire it
July 9, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
Bullshitters are never cowed down by being in a tight spot. They can stampede their way out of the muddiest situations. They even beef up their position with grand-sounding but entirely cooked up explanations and…
July 9, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
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Vax eloquent: The latest thing to gain snob appeal with people are vaccine brands
July 7, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
Some years ago, there was an advertising campaign for a television brand based on the slogan, ‘Neighbour’s envy, owner’s pride’, the message being that if you were the possessor of the TV being publicised your…
July 7, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
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He’s raking it in: Everyone calls this mobile phone grief counsellor when their fifth limb breaks down
July 6, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
A friend has started a service called Phone Trauma Stress Disorder, so same acronym … PTSD. He calls himself a mobile phone grief counsellor and is doing roaring business. He tells me that the mobile…
July 6, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
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Love’s nuance: For Indians the Other is us only. Exoticised, but also beloved
July 5, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
In India, to capture the portrait of the Other, one has to only take a selfie. The Other can be heard in the Punjabi accent being softened into contentment by masala dosa in an Ahmedabad…
July 5, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
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Calling names: How you’re known could reveal where your folks came from or what they did for a living
July 2, 2021, 2:00 AM IST
In the English-speaking world the family names of people often are a giveaway as to what their forebears did, as in Baker, Smith (for blacksmith), Fletcher (a maker of arrows), Taylor (tailor), and so on….
July 2, 2021, 2:00 AM IST
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Rice and fall: India and Pakistan battle over the EU’s GI tag on basmati
July 1, 2021, 2:00 AM IST
They had united in 1990 when the US-based Rice Tec tried to appropriate ‘Texmati’. In support of their unquestionable claim, they had cited its mention in Waris Shah’s 1766 Punjabi poem, Heer Ranjha. What’s far…
July 1, 2021, 2:00 AM IST
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Sarkari circles: The roundabout ways of the government and what they add up to
June 30, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
The most perfect shape in geometry is the circle. The sarkar in its various manifestations seems to wilfully or otherwise emulate the perfect roundness of the circle. To combat the deadly pandemic which has taken…
June 30, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
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With claws and teeth: The thing that makes reality real is conflict and negativity
June 29, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
Do you watch reality dancing/singing shows on Indian television? If you do, why? Is it because of the talent? Or is it because of the dancing in the singing shows and the singing in the…
June 29, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
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Salt of the earth: The more things change the more yesterday’s lakh feels like today’s thousand – and salaries have to keep up
June 25, 2021, 2:00 AM IST
Damodarbhai, as all us children referred to him, was the most eligible bachelor in the Kutchi community of Calcutta in the 1950s. In his latter twenties, he was tall, good-looking, had an amiable disposition which…
June 25, 2021, 2:00 AM IST
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Singing a swan-thong: Victoria’s Secret drops its sexist image and brings in Priyanka Chops
June 24, 2021, 2:00 AM IST
In the brand sirshasana of the millennium, lingerie-maker Victoria’s Secret is swapping male fantasy for woman power. The yearly fashion shows, telecast to over 100 countries, were an over-the-top circus that made the Folies Bergère…
June 24, 2021, 2:00 AM IST
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Hello clickbait: So go tell it to the fish, that Priyanka Chopra’s classmate is spilling the beans
June 22, 2021, 2:00 AM IST
These days on some news websites you get this sort of interrogative headline: ‘This person should open for India, most unexpected choice, says Kapil Dev.’ The other day I read, ‘He will beat Carlos Slim…
June 22, 2021, 2:00 AM IST
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The disappearing author: Enid Blyton’s characters call a midnight feast to discuss her whereabouts
June 21, 2021, 2:00 AM IST
Summer holidays have finally arrived and it is time for all the characters from the Enid Blyton books to meet at Seaside Cottage. On a nice sunny morning, the Famous Five, the Secret Seven, the…
June 21, 2021, 2:00 AM IST
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