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One man’s meat is … No, no, no, these are chicken eggs, from the market 24 to a tray plus GST 😜
April 17, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
Now that the bar has been raised on shooting wildlife after the Salman Khan verdict imagine a political bigwig going for dinner to some zamindar’s country house and the host says, would you like some…
April 17, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
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Fake in India: Never let a slow news day turn into a no news day 😜
April 16, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
All the Newsmakers gathered in the Newsroom to discuss the coup in Newsdom. Fake News had taken over the News Cycle with speed, cunning, deception and outright mendacity, grabbing eyeballs and TRPs. Traditional Newsmakers were…
April 16, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
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Gold-plated politics: ‘India Shining’ Down Under. Up here netas add to their meddle tally 😜
April 12, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
Remember how the 2010 CWG scam was the beginning of the beginning of the NDA’s stunning 2014 victory? Now, with the Indian gold rush at the current CWG someone at least is fulfilling Modi-ji’s prediction…
April 12, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
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Bargains & bahgains: People can be made to buy not the product but the price tag 😜
April 11, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
Leafing through a magazine the other day, i came across an article which mentioned a brand of Indian whisky which sells for Rs 18,000 for a single bottle. Eighteen thousand bucks for one bottle of…
April 11, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
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The wrong position: All that follows if wife is considered the property of the husband
April 10, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
My last piece was about how India is the fourth most dangerous country in the world for women. And this week i can tell you one of the ways in which we as a nation…
April 10, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
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Bees saal baad: Salman Khan is convicted in the poaching case after 20 years. How’s that for Indian Standard Time? 😜
April 9, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
Some journalists who began their careers covering the Salman Khan blackbuck poaching case have ended it covering the Salman Khan blackbuck poaching case. After twenty long years of passing the buck, the judiciary has shown…
April 9, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
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Flight of fancy: Two netas bemoaning the proposal to sell off the national carrier 😜
April 6, 2018, 2:02 AM IST
1st neta: I really don’t know what this sarkar is thinking of, planning to sell our airline. 2nd neta: The sarkar’s not thinking. That’s the problem. First of all, its lack of thinking shows in…
April 6, 2018, 2:02 AM IST
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Your aunt’s painting: Keep it up on the wall, even if the horse looks like a crushed moth 😜
April 3, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
She was struck by the creative bug at the age of sixty and decided to paint rural scenes in oils with dogs and haystacks and little cottages and twisting pakdandis leading to green forests. She…
April 3, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
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On the ball: How they got their own back, for injustice cricketers did to them 😜
April 2, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
All the cricket balls gathered in the dressing room to discuss the latest tampering row. Most of them were shiny on one side and scuffed on the other side. They were sore and schizoid from…
April 2, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
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Corruption Price Index: Bofors and other scams as a measure of inflation 😜
March 30, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
Economists keep a hawk eye on the Consumer Price Index – a table which tells us what items of everyday use cost – to see if inflation is rising or being kept in check. However,…
March 30, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
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Political cricket: Don’t say ‘Balls!’ Everyone is tampering with data too 😜
March 29, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
‘Beware the Likes of March’. Steve Smith has been ‘unfriended’ by both ICC and the Rajasthan Royals; and India’s political captains too have hit ‘Share’ in the tampering controversy. Following the global revelation that ‘something…
March 29, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
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Gluten lootin’: Why a gluten-free diet is really a contradiction in terms 😜
March 28, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
Like not a few people whom we know, Bunny and i are trying to stick to a gluten-free diet. What is gluten, and why are people trying to free themselves from it? In the genre…
March 28, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
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Abaya or not: Prince Mo is giving Saudi women permission to do things, it’s very annoying 😜
March 27, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
In feminist news Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has decreed that women in Saudi Arabia no longer need to wear the black head cover or abaya. They have his Royal Highness’s permission to dress as…
March 27, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
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Neta come, neta go: Like migratory birds, politicians fly in different directions in poll season 😜
March 26, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
Navjot Singh Sidhu, first BJP MP now Congress MLA, recently scored what is called a classic “switch hit”. During the latest Congress plenary, Sidhu heaped eulogies on Sonia Gandhi in a speech that has turned…
March 26, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
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Modi vs the modi: Watch out, a revolt is brewing in every bania ki dukaan 😜
March 22, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
Rahul Gandhi’s rousing attack at the AICC plenary has led to great disquiet. Not in the BJP that you think, but in the traditional sellers of Bajra, Jeera, Pulses. It is rumoured in the mandi…
March 22, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
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Schools for scandal: There’s an unnecessary hue and cry about mass cheating in board exams 😜
March 21, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
Following reports that some 15% of the students who were to appear for their board exams in UP dropped out because the authorities cracked down on mass copying and other forms of cheating in tests,…
March 21, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
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Do phoo phoo: They never really inflate the lifejacket in those air safety demonstrations 😜
March 20, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
Airline speak is truly funny. Like when you are sitting in the waiting area and they say we will now pre-board small children. What is pre-board. Either they are boarding or they are not and…
March 20, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
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The Pakoda Chronicles: Love and longing among India’s street food 😜
March 19, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
Pakoda was beside himself with delight. No less a person than the Prime Minister of India had praised him for providing jobs to the masses. After long years, things were looking good for Pakoda and…
March 19, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
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Status symbols: What happens when all the states want to be special 😜
March 16, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
The PM conferring with his Aide-in-Chief about special matters. PM: That fellow in Andhra has set the ball rolling with his demand for a special status for his state. He’s got two of his ministers…
March 16, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
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Two gentlemen of Calcutta: Merwanji and Motabhoy are long dead but here’s their link to ‘PadMan’ 😜
March 15, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
‘Arunachalam Muruganantham’ is slipping off everyone’s tongue as easily as kollu rasam. So, i’m jumping on the Padwagon too. My story dates to a time when Akshay Kumar wasn’t even a Twinkle in his father’s…
March 15, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
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