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Minnie Antoinette: Some baked cake, the bread of the rest was washed away 😊
May 20, 2021, 2:00 AM IST
The impact of Tauktae once again reminded me of what the columnist Busybee wrote years ago. He had wryly observed that ‘The difference between those who love the monsoon, and those who hate it is…
May 20, 2021, 2:00 AM IST
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Swadeshi variant: How India is making international headlines for its pioneering role in the pandemic 😊
May 19, 2021, 2:00 AM IST
Addressing a press conference to which representatives of the international media were invited, a spokesperson for the Swadeshi Jagran Bunch – whose rousing slogan is V R 4 U: Bharat Mata ki Joy! – traced…
May 19, 2021, 2:00 AM IST
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Dreams are Patel: An actor from the Gunda universe can make it to the Marvel universe 😜
May 18, 2021, 2:00 AM IST
Marvel, the most successful franchise in the world after BJP (the recent ‘The Falcon and the Winter Soldier’ being Marvel’s analogue to BJP’s ‘West Bengal elections’), recently unveiled its next generation of products (note I…
May 18, 2021, 2:00 AM IST
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Kaun banega challenger: After assembly poll results, politicians compete to become opposition Neta No 1. A conversation that wasn’t 😜
May 17, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
Mamata Banerjee: Narendra Modi taunted me with “Didi oh Didi”, I turned it around to Didigiri-oh-Didigiri. After my stunning third win, I’m clearly most suitable as unquestioned leader of a united opposition. Anyone else for…
May 17, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
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Sixth sense: The virus can make us lose touch with smell and taste, and other things as well 😊
May 14, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
Two of the early symptoms of catching the wretched coronavirus are a loss of two of the five senses that we are credited to possess: the sense of smell, and that of taste, known in…
May 14, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
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Wordy opponents: The sad slow death of meanings as we have always known them 😜
May 13, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
The lexicon is now a laxicon thanks to the cavalier manner in which we keep altering the way we use words. Old meanings are victims of ID theft. Parts of speech behave like quick-change artistes,…
May 13, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
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Kumbh with me: As millions made a grand splash, guess which scientific principle was proved? 😊
May 12, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
Two kumbhis returning to their distant homes after the maha mela, looking all scrubbed and fresh and clean following their dip in the Ganga. 1st kumbhi: Wow! That was one heck of a mela, a…
May 12, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
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Too fat for its follicles: To keep hair here we overfeed it … and then it cries to go on a diet
May 11, 2021, 2:00 AM IST
Nana, said my granddaughter, she of acute perception, you don’t have any hair. That’s because Nana is getting old, darling, said my daughter without any feeling whatsoever. And how, said my wife, adding a warm…
May 11, 2021, 2:00 AM IST
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Just tell us why: Bill and Mel, not knowing the reason for your divorce is tearing couples apart 😜
May 10, 2021, 2:00 AM IST
Some divorces we see coming, like the Kim-Kanye one. Some we wouldn’t mind – like the Trumps, Clintons or Beckhams. And some we just cannot process. We read about it, but the words don’t register….
May 10, 2021, 2:00 AM IST
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Covid’s Cupid: A virus-induced quarantine scripted the re-enactment of a youthful romance of long ago 😊
May 7, 2021, 2:00 AM IST
When Bunny and I were simultaneously struck down by the nasty bug and put ourselves in home quarantine, added to the anxiety of possible hospitalisation, or worse, was the emotional dislocation of having lost our…
May 7, 2021, 2:00 AM IST
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Aar parchhi na! That very emphatic phrase in Bengali says it all and is the last word on any subject 😊
May 5, 2021, 2:00 AM IST
Though neither of us was born there, both Bunny and I grew up in what was called Calcutta and spent much of our adult life there. As a result we imbibed, through our pores as…
May 5, 2021, 2:00 AM IST
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Interiors monologue: A revamped house for Mr Johnson vs everyman’s quest for corona-era comfort 😊
May 3, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
A refurbished house for Mr Johnson – that’s all the UK prime minister wanted. The pandemic had scuppered his India visit. Home is the sanctuary where everyday working people recover from Covid-precipitated disappointments. Some have…
May 3, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
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Oscarona: Sunday’s winners reflect our fractious times
April 29, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
This year the shimmering, shimmying Academy Awards ceremony looked like it had hired Marie Kondo. The gags were gagged, the red carpet rolled up and there’s only that much shock and ‘Aww!’ you can fake…
April 29, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
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Scales of justice: Remember the ones that used to weigh both you and your luggage
April 27, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
Remember those weighing machines we all had and we called them scales and they lay under the cupboard or in the bathroom and were dented and rusty and the window was blurred and you had…
April 27, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
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I’m leaving on a jet plane: But first line up for RT-PCR test, wait eternally for results, fill forms, download app
April 26, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
Young Lochinvar won’t come out of the West. He can’t just wake up and decide impulsively to go kidnap the woman he loves who is getting married to another man as we speak. He must…
April 26, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
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Vexing diplomacy: By exporting anti-virus vaccines to 90 countries India wins bouquets abroad and brickbats at home 😊
April 23, 2021, 2:00 AM IST
Several Native American communities of the North West Pacific Coast have a traditional ceremony called ‘potlatch’, meaning ‘gift’, which forms the economic, social and political keystone of their societies. In order to gain respect and…
April 23, 2021, 2:00 AM IST
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Et tu, O2: Pranayama rescues and reflects the pandemic 😊
April 22, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
The oxygen shortage has left us gasping. Patients seriously hit by Covid need desperate interventions. Everyone else is trying to build up a lung-filled buffer against a virus more unstoppable than PM-ji at poll-time. Since…
April 22, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
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Body political: Corona curfews, lockdowns, come what may, for one lot of people it’s all business as usual 😊
April 21, 2021, 2:00 AM IST
Two politicos taking a moment off from election campaigning. 1st politico: What a bunch of losers and sad sacks all these people are, moaning and groaning about how their sources of livelihood have been hit…
April 21, 2021, 2:00 AM IST
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Keep distance, neta style: In poll season politicians interpret ‘do gaj doori’ in their own way. A conversation that wasn’t 😊
April 19, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
Narendra Modi: Mitron, I’ve decided to cut down on my rallies in Bengal even though drone cameras are making rallies look jam-packed. Never mind, my Mann Ki Baat is reaching lakhs of people anyway. Sonia…
April 19, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
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Lawn rangers: The green, green grass of home is never greener than when it’s not real grass
April 16, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
Bunny and I had always lived in apartments, and it was her dream to one day have a home with a small patch of grass, a lawn. When some 20-odd years ago we moved to…
April 16, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
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