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Running on empty: As petrol and diesel prices go higher and higher, we’ll all save more and more money 😜
September 19, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
In India we are witnessing a refutation of Newton’s law of gravity which says that everything that goes up must eventually come down: petrol and diesel prices have shot up like an Isro rocket and…
September 19, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
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In convenience: Everyone seems hell bent on making fun chores more strenuous 😜
September 18, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
There is just too much of convenience around. Take shopping. The fun of this sortie is in selecting every apple, testing the texture of the tomatoes, giving the bananas a gentle squeeze, making sure you…
September 18, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
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Donald ducks: Facing increasing flak at home, Donny rings up a buddy in India 😜
September 14, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
Donny: Gee, buddy, after all the flak I’m getting here, it sure is nice to talk to a sympathetic pal. You’re getting flak too, aren’t you, about that demonisation of yours, with people saying how…
September 14, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
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Machcher Jhol in Mayfair: Lon-don is redolent with mastaard oil? Erm, almost but not quite 😜
September 13, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
FOMO, that’s been my predominant feeling these past weeks. And, no, my Fear Of Missing Out is not at all minimised by its new, cool avatar, JOMO, the Joy of ditto. At every turn, I’m…
September 13, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
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Equal in love: It took gay pride to make me a proud Indian 😜
September 11, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
Section 377 has been amended to decriminalise homosexuality. It’s gone. It’s not coming back and it took gay pride to make me a proud Indian. This moment in time is entirely thanks to the enormous…
September 11, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
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Shut up, I’m a VIP! Plane tales about netas who are up in the air 😜
September 10, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
So enraged was Tamil Nadu state BJP president Tamilisai Soundararajan when student Lois Sofia shouted, “Fascist BJP down down,” when the plane they were travelling in landed at Tuticorin airport, that the VIP neta instantly filed…
September 10, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
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Take credit: Buy-now-pay-later systems like MAD make you feel like a prince till you become a pauper 😜
September 7, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
When i was a child growing up in what used to be called Calcutta, there were no credit cards, so there was no such thing as buying on credit. Day-to-day purchases – of groceries, veggies,…
September 7, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
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The big melt: Roger Federer has finally met his match – global warming 😜
September 7, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
It’s not easy to make tennis ace Roger Federer sweat. The Swiss maestro is as cool as a cucumber on court. He glides from side to side with the grace of a ballerina, mesmerising opponents…
September 7, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
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Terminally billed: The airline Maharaja is near dead. Long live the airport Maharaj 😜
September 6, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
If the terminus was renamed, could the terminal be far behind? Mumbai’s airport caught up with its railhead last week by ministerial decree aka tweet. Shri Suresh Prabhu, who too has moved from Railways to…
September 6, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
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Load of the rings: We’ll all end up becoming slaves to the ‘phoney’ wars being fought in India 😜
September 5, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
The government is busy cracking down on so-called ‘urban Naxals’ – social activists and academics who champion tribal rights, among other issues – for allegedly having links with banned Maoist organisations who plan to wage…
September 5, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
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Song sung blue: Amateur night rolls on as you stare into the bottom of your empty glass 😜
September 4, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
There you are at this decent party enjoying the now rare crispness of the conversation, relieved there are still some intelligent people on the planet when someone says, let’s have a song, Mrs Revti is…
September 4, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
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Fat Accompli: Carb-arians At The Gate 😜
September 3, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
Oil cartel meeting descends into recrimination over who is Lard of the Rings All cooking medium fat-cats from pantries across the world gathered around Kitchen Island to discuss matters of great girth and substance. Mother…
September 3, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
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Out of court: Supreme Court orders already overworked judges to inspect all places of worship 😜
August 31, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
With a 3.1 crore backlog of pending cases and 23,000 vacancies, judges will now have to do a ‘judicial audit’ of all temples, mosques and churches. – TOI news report. Two judges bemoaning the extra…
August 31, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
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Cult and culture: The ‘Naked Chef’ got stripped over his ‘cultural appropriation’? Why?! 😜
August 30, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
British celeb chef Jamie Oliver is being seared for ‘cultural appropriation’: he added ‘Punchy Jerk Rice’ to his supermarket range. According to the rageists, ‘jerk’ is a Jamaican spice which rubs up against chicken, or…
August 30, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
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Gone to pot: The latest addition to your loo has you sitting on the lakh of luxury 😜
August 29, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
It was a half-page, full-colour ad in a national daily. The product it was promoting came with a hefty price tag, being the latest thing in status symbols. So what was it? A top-of-the-line smart…
August 29, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
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Long and short of it: Choosing between hygiene and being longhaired like Rapunzel 😜
August 28, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
I love my India. And while i can tolerate most things about her – the heat, the dust, my mother in law – i cannot stand being called ‘Sir’. Yes, my flat chest may have…
August 28, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
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Aa gale lag ja: India and Pakistan need more not less of jhappiyan pappiyan 😜
August 27, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
When BJP MP, sorry, now Congress minister in the Punjab government Navjot Singh Sidhu hugged the Pakistani army chief Qamar Javed Bajwa he was accused of embracing the enemy. Sidhu made a splash as a…
August 27, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
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It’s an allergy: Every day we are discovering more and more things which can make us feel sick 😜
August 24, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
Like a super cop forever in hot pursuit of criminal elements, Medical Science, in capital letters, is tirelessly tracking down things which can make us ill. And one of the more common of these things…
August 24, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
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Kerala Sonnet: How many ways do we love you? Let me count the names 😜
August 23, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
‘Shall i compare thee to a sun-drenched beach … ?’ Alas it’s not the sun that’s done the drenching this monsoon of Kerala’s discontent. But why let the heart-wrenching images drown all that has made…
August 23, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
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Buck the system: The American dollar goes from strength to strength to strength 😜
August 22, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
America’s Almighty Dollar is getting Almightier and Almightier, and there seems to be no limit as to just how Almightiest it might eventually get. There was a time, within living memory, when the dollar was…
August 22, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
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