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Call to account: Along with Vijay Mallya and Nirav Modi, I’m a bank’s Non-Performing Asset (NPA) 😜
October 19, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
A large number of Indian banks are having to declare their non-performing assets (NPAs), loans given by banks to people who then fail to repay them, which includes wilful defaulters like Vijay Mallya and Nirav…
October 19, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
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How do you ‘do’? Four-letter word? Bah! Beware the innocuous two-letter word 😜
October 18, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
So ‘do’ has entered the treacherous waters of sexual harassment. It was but a routine response at wedding altars. Now it has been elevated to the high altar of legal dissembling. To wit: “Milord, the…
October 18, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
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Totally fed up: Why Indians are justified in feeling we’ve got more than enough on our thali 😜
October 17, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
Indians are literally a fed up lot, more than any other nationality in the world. And what’s made us so fed up? More than the falling rupee against the dollar and the resultant record high…
October 17, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
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Littlest drop of dignity: After excellencies, distinguished guests, dignitaries they get to us L and Gs 😜
October 16, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
Why is it that we introduce chief guests as people who need no introduction and then we proceed to send everyone to sleep with a lengthy introduction of their stellar achievements. In reply that worthy…
October 16, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
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Trendy uniform: How fashion turns us into cookie-cutter lookalikes of each other 😜
October 12, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
It seemed someone was stalking me. This young guy was following me around wherever i went, on my way to and from my office, inside a mall, in the local grocery shop. And when i…
October 12, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
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Promise trick: Nitin Gadkari bowls a googly again to his colleagues in government 😜
October 11, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
Union minister Nitin Gadkari has once again put his government in an embarrassing spot. Appearing as a guest in a reality TV show, Gadkari said that his government had come to power in 2014 on…
October 11, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
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Girl can dream: First I wanted to be Martina Navratilova then Madhu Sapre 😜
October 9, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
I am not an athlete, i wasn’t born with what i call anatomical or muscular intelligence, and any physical practice – except walking perhaps – is unnatural to me. That said all i have ever…
October 9, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
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Namaste, I am Bapu: Gandhi’s statue came to life and met today’s politician. A conversation that wasn’t 😜
October 8, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
Gandhi: Namaste. I am Bapu. I came to see whether you are celebrating my birthday by following my teachings. Aaj ka Neta: Bapu who? Gandhi: You know, the father of the Indian nation. Mohandas Karamchand…
October 8, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
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Con text: Mobile phone messaging is proving to be a public menace 😜
October 5, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
Of late, i’ve noticed that i keep bumping into people, often people who are complete strangers, and likely to remain so. Or rather, they keep bumping into me. Literally. At first i thought it might…
October 5, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
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Going green: Blighty isn’t Roast Beef land. It’s all ‘Love In The Time Of Kale-era’ 😜
October 4, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
Meat your fate; the Plant Empire Strikes Back. The Healthy Bodies in a Healthy Planet army has taken over the world in a bloodless coup. In distant days, desi shakaharis holidaying in the West, and…
October 4, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
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To sum up life: Left end will you please meet the right end 😜
October 2, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
My friend Venky is taking his wife Padma to the Costa del Sol for a holiday for their anniversary and he tells me with great glee that he got a great deal on the tickets….
October 2, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
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The Kavanaugh stakes: Why appointing this beer loving Supreme Court nominee is critical for teetotaller Trump 😜
October 1, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
A titanic struggle is underway in the United States to fill in a vacant ninth seat on the Supreme Court bench currently tied at 4-4 between conservative and liberal justices. The ideological leaning of the…
October 1, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
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Hook or crook: SC’s directive to politicians to make public their criminal records could have unforeseen consequences 😜
September 28, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
Two criminals discussing the Supreme Court’s directive to poll candidates to publicise their criminal records, if any. 1st criminal: This Supreme Court ruling spells bad news for us. 2nd criminal: Very bad news. All this…
September 28, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
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Objection, Milord: How far back can you trace the age of dissent?
September 27, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
Since dissent is fast becoming history in India, it was apt for me to rediscover it in the British Museum. Ian Hislop, editor of the famously thumb-nosing, snook-cocking ‘Private Eye’ combed through the museum’s humungous…
September 27, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
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Iz eet a bird? Iz eet a plane? Iz eet even a poll issue? L’affaire Rafale-Reliance, as reported after ze deep Gaulois intakes 😜
September 27, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
Alors! Quel malheur! Mon Dieu! Albert Camus! Oo would you ratheyr believe? An ex-presidente of France with a surname that iz so suspiciouslay ze name of another countray? Or ze governments of two great nationes…
September 27, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
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Big toots: Making the horns on vehicles less noisy will put a spoke in the nation’s wheels 😜
September 26, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
To curb increasing noise pollution the authorities are planning to limit the decibel levels of all automotive horns – TOI news report. The nation’s drivers – of trucks, buses, taxis, cars, three-wheelers, two-wheelers – are…
September 26, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
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Bigg love: Don’t be jealous of Jalotaji, frankly i am inspired by him 😜
September 25, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
Anup Jalota, 65, is dating Jasleen Matharu, 28. That is a 37-year age difference. They met like most couples do – in class, he was her teacher, she was his student. The relationship was unveiled…
September 25, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
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Chamchagiri ki jai – The loyalty test: Will you wash your leaders’ feet and drink the water? 😜
September 24, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
BJP MP Nishikant Dubey was recently mocked on social media because one of his supporters, Pawan Sah, first washed Dubey’s feet, then drank the water in which the feet were washed, as a mark of…
September 24, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
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Mehman Mallya: An Indian prison is being prepared to accommodate the King of Good Times as a guest 😜
September 21, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
Even as BJP and Congress trade charges as to who helped absconding liquor baron Vijay Mallya to loot banks and flee the country, prison authorities are preparing suitable accommodation for the wilful defaulter should he…
September 21, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
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Artist in the orchard: A friendship ripened amidst the chikoos of Gholvad
September 20, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
Mehlli Gobhai was the ultimate in urbane cool, strolling insouciantly between SoHo galleries and SoBo mansions. How then did i have the temerity to turn him into a rural animal, Rousseau’s ‘noble savage’? This is…
September 20, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
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