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A savage place: Andaman tribals don’t know what they’re missing by cutting themselves off from us
November 28, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
Two Dilliwalas having a chat about recent happenings. 1st Dilliwala: These Andaman tribals who are said to have killed that American tourist who landed up on their island are a really savage lot. 2nd Dilliwala:…
November 28, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
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After hello: How do intelligent adults communicate with youngsters? By asking dumb questions 😜
November 27, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
You would think that with all this information technology slapping us in the face by now adults would have upgraded their dialogue when it comes to talking with youngsters. Amazing how gen after gen they say…
November 27, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
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The Joke’s on US-A: A historian replaces a comedian at White House Correspondents’ dinner 😜
November 26, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
US President Donald Trump knocked the stuffing out of a modern Washington media tradition on Thanksgiving week, forcing the White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) to forgo its satire-laced and laughter-filled annual dinner in favor of…
November 26, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
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Private limited: How to find a new heir to run an old family business 😜
November 21, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
Mom and son discussing future plans for their Family Business. Son: That chap who keeps talking about his 56-inch chest is losing it. Imagine, daring us to appoint anyone but a Family member to be…
November 21, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
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My sweet weed: Ganja got such a bad rap but it’s really fighting back now 😜
November 20, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
Cannabis hasn’t just made a comeback, it’s going mainstream. Everyone is smoking, vaping or literally eating weed. Of course ganja has always been popular in India – i worked in advertising in the 90s and…
November 20, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
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Statue-mev Jayate: In government by slogan, only tall tales shall triumph 😜
November 15, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
The Iron Man is clad in irony. His Statue of Unity is the flamboyant statement of the most divisive PM of post-Partition India. At 182 metres, it soars 54 metres higher than the previous record…
November 15, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
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Puppet theatre: The many strategic advantages of having a proxy PM 😜
November 14, 2018, 2:04 AM IST
The Big Boss and his Aide-in-Chief having a confabulation. Big Boss: I see that those Oppositionwalas who are trying to form a Third Front, or Grand Alliance, or Mahagathbandhan, or whatever they call it, are…
November 14, 2018, 2:04 AM IST
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First love: Cupid does not even have that many arrows – and 20 minutes 😜
November 13, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
I was asked the other day at one of those intellectual party game evenings what i thought was a person’s most bittersweet experience. Easy. Falling in love for the first time. You are young, smitten,…
November 13, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
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Mobile India: More and more Indians are here, there and everywhere 😜
November 7, 2018, 2:03 AM IST
India has become more mobile than ever before. And this hasn’t to do with the possession of mobile phones. It has to do with going places, literally. Thanks to the Great Indian Diaspora, Indians have…
November 7, 2018, 2:03 AM IST
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A sprinkling of tinkles: Water, water everywhere? But not a drop of difference 😜
November 6, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
Capital’s air is plumbing new depths of toxicity despite government efforts to clean the particulate matter through techniques such as sprinkling water. We met Dr Pawan Gandagi, highly disregarded scientific adviser to Delhi’s environment ministry: Q:…
November 6, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
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Tall statues, small people: The 182m Sardar Patel statue is unveiled. India’s late heroes in a conversation that wasn’t 😜
November 5, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
Sardar Patel: So, my dear Jawaharlal, I see that my new statue is far taller than any one of yours. Nehru: But my dear Vallabhbhai, I have an entire university named after me, a memorial in the…
November 5, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
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Thain thain: The e-age gave wings ’n’warts, we’ve taken it all. For lungs’ sake, yield to e-crackers too
November 5, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
For north India – gasping with a bad air day every Diwali – it would be better if the lights and sounds of the festival could receive an electronic form. One certainly hopes e-crackers can…
November 5, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
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Akhand Bhartis: On top of the shopping list of well-heeled Indians are new nationalities 😜
October 31, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
What do wealthy Indians who have everything – a penthouse on Malabar Hill, a villa in Goa, a Maybach luxury limo which comes with a price tag of Rs 5 crore plus – buy next?…
October 31, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
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Strangers on a plane: You freely exchange confidences you would never do on terra firma 😜
October 30, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
So you are at the airport and your flight is late and you make friends with a perfect stranger in the waiting area or he is sitting next to you on the aircraft and you…
October 30, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
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Draw of the luck: The miseries brought on by winning vast millions at the lottery 😜
October 29, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
The odds of winning one of America’s two major lotteries – Mega Millions and Powerball – are so miniscule that it is said the chances of a buyer dying on his or her way to…
October 29, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
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Brothers in arms: Pakistan to piggyback on China to send first man to space
October 29, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
Pakistan perhaps regards India affectionately as its twin brother joined at the hip. It has resolved to send its first astronaut to space in 2022, the same year India plans to launch its own manned…
October 29, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
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PM’s paradox: Shashi Tharoor’s new book being discussed by the Big Boss and his Aide-in-Chief 😜
October 26, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
Aide-in-Chief: That Tharoor fellow has done it again. Big Boss: What’s he done this time? Said that India is becoming a Hindu Pakistan? A-in-C: Worse. He’s written a book about you. BB: Written a book…
October 26, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
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#Who’sToo? It’s not just men vs women, it’s also women vs wimmin. Good for us. 😜
October 25, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
Nuance, like truth, is the first casualty of war. And in #MeToo’s eyeball-to-balls confrontation, it’s easy to fall for the rigid male-female binary. Easy but stupid. How much soul-searching is happening in the Boys Club,…
October 25, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
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Naam ke vaste: Name-changing can become a real game-changer in helping us fight terrorism 😜
October 24, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
We keep changing the names of places so that we can keep calling them by newer and newer names. The latest place to have a proposed name change is Allahabad, which the state government wants…
October 24, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
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Uncleji listen up: Indian men, their magic underpants and #MeTooIndia 😜
October 23, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
A male friend called M, moved to a foreign country. One night he got chatting with another guy at a bar. Two drinks in the guy asked M if he was gay and perhaps interested…
October 23, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
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