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Scrappy New Year: Our endlessly scrapping netas make New Year resolutions. A list that isn’t 😜
January 1, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
Narendra Modi: No more Mann Ki Baat folks, it’s time for me to finally listen to janta ki baat. From now on the people will talk and I will listen, although the Doordarshan cameras have…
January 1, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
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Dhamadham must calendar: Please spare us one more year of living predictably 😜
December 28, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
Time once more to wring out the old and pray that 2018 will bring us closer to a 20-20 vision. 2017 ended as a ballot-box office year: little doubt that Modi will be Baahubali in…
December 28, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
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Point of sale: By making you think you’re saving money, sellers get you to buy stuff you don’t need 😜
December 27, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
It’s a banner headline, on the front page of the newspaper, and it’s got everyone all worked up. What’s happening? Has North Korea launched a missile strike at America and started World War III? It’s…
December 27, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
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Relentless wireless: Come in T for Tango, this is G for Gamma 😜
December 26, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
We have all seen those war movies where the bloodied hero is in a trench and he yells into his field wireless, this is Alpha, Juliet, Delta, come in Bravo, Echo, Foxtrot, we are taking…
December 26, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
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The Virushka virus: Virat-Anushka marriage implants American disease on Indian soil 😜
December 25, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
When it comes to name blending, it does not work more often than it does. Take India’s first celebrity portmanteau couple for instance. Virushka sounds like a baby virus of Russian or Slavic origin. Viranus…
December 25, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
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Don’t bank on it: The money in your savings account could disappear overnight 😜
December 22, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
When i was eight, in order to encourage thrift my mother gave me a small round clay pot, with gaily painted horizontal stripes. The pot had a slit on top through which coins, or folded…
December 22, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
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Carol slinging: Merry Christmas or teri Christmas, it’s that time for season’s beatings 😜
December 21, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
Santa Claus hasn’t yet been ordered to come dressed in saffron. This would make us see red. The less-than-euphoric Gujarat election results may hopefully pull the reins on our deer with trishul-pronged antlers, but Christmas…
December 21, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
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Mum’s the word: A game of thrones that is being played in two different places 😜
December 20, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
Two not-so-young royal babalog discussing their career prospects. 1st babalog: I say, old chap, it’s jolly decent of your Mum to step down in your favour and let you take her place. I wish my…
December 20, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
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I don’t like infants: But one place I am willing to support their presence is – the office 😜
December 19, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
Last week i spent 13 hours locked in an aircraft with a screaming toddler. I checked in so late i did not have the opportunity to make my usual request which is to be seated…
December 19, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
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Back to ‘dhando’: Gujarat’s business is business and Ambani always scores over Rupani 😜
December 18, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
During the recent Gujarat election campaign BJP President Amit Shah said Rahul Gandhi must take off his Italian glasses to properly see Gujarat’s development. But in Ahmedabad’s Manek Chowk, chocolate pizza is Gujarat’s only Italian…
December 18, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
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Tongue-in-check: We really need to get rid of a very dangerous part of our bodies 😜
December 13, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
We might not know it, but we all suffer from skeuomorphism. What’s this? Some new, horrible disease that medical science has just discovered? Not quite. According to a recent report in the TOI, skeuomorphism refers…
December 13, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
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Walkman, floppy disks: Some of my favourite things are obsolete, the children have never even seen them 😜
December 12, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
So i am teaching these early teenage kids about audio tapes and transistors and they have never seen one. They cannot believe we would find a song only by running through the earlier ones or…
December 12, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
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To neech his own: Mani talks, handing enemies plenty of ammuneechion 😜
December 11, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
Contemporary politics in India – let’s call it rajneechi for the purpose of this brief comment – is a base sport. Even accounting for its lowly status, recent exchanges in this sphere is beneech the…
December 11, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
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BC, MC and other letters: Baffled Completely, Maha Confused about what offends nowadays 😜
December 8, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
There seems to be no end to offensiveness in this country. People keep making offensive films which distort history, among other things, and offend us. People eat beef, or we think they might have eaten…
December 8, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
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Harry ki shaadi: We Indians may not like the British Raj, but we’re still fascinated by British rajas 😜
December 4, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
We Indians may not have liked the British Raj but we’re fascinated by British rajas. When Prince Harry of England and Hollywood actor Meghan Markle announced their engagement, Indian media exploded with lots of royal…
December 4, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
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Markle-Sparkle: But is leap frog possible in the game of thrones? 😜
November 30, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
Even the most rabid republican will admit that despite the ruler’s penchant for headgear, the British monarchy is not old hat. Indian common sense may have abdicated in favour of a 13th –14th century Rajput…
November 30, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
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Dilli chodo: Thanks to its deadly pollution, people are fleeing the Capital – or are they? 😜
November 29, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
Two Dilliwalas trying to figure out how to become non-Dilliwalas. 1st Dilliwala: Thanks to its pollution, which has made it a deadly gas chamber, Dilli is putting Netaji in reverse gear. Netaji urged his INA…
November 29, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
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Where are my keys? It is one of those conspiracies of fate that man cannot find things in his wife’s bag 😜
November 28, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
You cannot find the car key and you need the car key. You need the car key so you can start the car which will not start without the keys and you are late already…
November 28, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
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Ban bajao: A movie-in-the-making about freedom of expression versus freedom of repression 😜
November 24, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
Two failed movie-makers wondering how to make a film that’ll be a smash hit. 1st filmmaker: Instead of being top shows, all my movies have been flop shows. I’ve made so many flops that I…
November 24, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
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Shell shocked: We can’t afford eggs because so many have been diverted to neta faces 😜
November 23, 2017, 2:09 AM IST
Benjamin Franklin wisely wrote ‘An egg today is better than a hen tomorrow’, but the 1700s didn’t have today’s skewed price ratio. As founding father of the USA, he knew that you can’t make an…
November 23, 2017, 2:09 AM IST
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