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A tank for JNU: Its VC has a brilliant proposal which must be taken forward 😜
July 29, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
Whoever thought of awarding graduates of the National Defence Academy degrees issued by Jawaharlal Nehru University must have had a great sense of irony. The army and JNU – each a centre of excellence in…
July 29, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
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Bottoms up: A low-slung menswear fashion that appeals not to posterity but to posteriorerity 😜
July 28, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
I’d been noticing that, all of a sudden, a growing number of men, particularly young men, seemed to be losing a lot of weight – or at least a lot of inches – from their…
July 28, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
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Teary of relativity: How many words (and worlds) can you find in ‘nepotism’? 😜
July 27, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
Thanks to the snub appeal of Kangana Ranaut vis a vis the pedigreed brats of Bollywood, everybody and his/her body sculptor now knows the meaning of ‘nepotism’. It is loosely related to the ‘crony capitalism’…
July 27, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
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Prez briefing: With the appointment of Ram Nath Kovind as Rashtrapati, India makes constitutional history 😜
July 26, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
As Ram Nath Kovind makes himself comfortable on the gaddi at Rashtrapati Bhavan, India can take justifiable pride in the fact that it has made constitutional history. It’s not just the fact that Ram Nathji…
July 26, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
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Two blue ticks: You know they know you know they have read the message 😜
July 25, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
Nothing makes one feel worse than watching a WhatsApp message turn from two grey ticks to blue and you know the person you sent the message to has read it and there is still no…
July 25, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
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Bland on the run: Sean Spicer’s resignation shows spicing it up may not be a good formula 😜
July 24, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
Given the lack of political seasoning that was attributed to the Trump presidency when it assumed office in January this year, the appointment of a man named Sean Spicer as its spokesperson was greeted with…
July 24, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
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Out of step: Why we Indians talk the talk, talk the walk, but don’t walk the walk 😜
July 21, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
Two Size XXL city gents having a chat. 1st gent: Did you read that report in the TOI that in order to keep fit we should walk 10,000 steps every day, and that Indians are…
July 21, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
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Storm in a P-cup: Is Parliament’s ‘monsoon preparedness’ as leaky as that of municipalities? 😜
July 20, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
Shri Meghnad Rainkar of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) was in full angry flood. “All the time media is berating us only for lack of monsoon preparedness, but why they are not asking same questions…
July 20, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
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Point of sale: Products made to serve one purpose, are often marketed for something quite different 😜
July 19, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
The other day i was struck by an ad for a mobile phone. Ads featuring mobile phones are even more common than ads featuring Amitabh Bachchan. So what was it about this ad that i…
July 19, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
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Smartphone capers: How Digital India can end up wasting tax payers’ money 😜
July 18, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
Last week a comedian got in trouble for essentially photoshopping dog ears and a snout on to an image of our Great Leader and then tweeting it. Now it would be one thing if Great…
July 18, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
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Yadav & Sons Pvt Ltd: Lalu Prasad was once photographed milking cows, now he’s accused of milking the system 😜
July 17, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
Bihar’s original kanhaiya who famously said, “Jab tak samosa mein aloo hai, tab tak Bihar mein Lalu hai,” finds himself eating some rather sour potato chips. For years while the price of the aloo went…
July 17, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
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Wild ghoos chase: The country’s biggest service sector is in a quandary thanks to GST 😜
July 14, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
Two representatives of an unorganised sector which is the biggest service provider in India. 1st representative: This GST business is creating a lot of golmal for us. Gol has never been more mal, thanks to…
July 14, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
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What’s in a rename? Might as well take this mania to its looniest lengths? 😜
July 13, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
Improved infrastructure means renaming only, no? Like Henry Ford, civic minders think ‘History is bunk’; selective history anyway. Junk the reminders of Mughal rule, British raj, and post-colonial dynasties, and replace them with icons who…
July 13, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
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Plane talk: Some feel that selling Air India is like selling their birthright 😜
July 12, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
Two netas in worried conversation: 1st neta: What is all this nonsense about privatising Air India? I just can’t understand it. 2nd neta: Neither can I. How on earth can anyone privatise something that has…
July 12, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
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Who invited this peasant? Fish knives, mineral water and other foolish fripperies 😜
July 11, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
Went for a rarefied dinner the other day and the people on the table were spooning their soup outwards to come in, like rowers in a boat caught on a tide and for sheer affectation…
July 11, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
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Body politic: From Trump’s glad-handling to Modi’s ‘hug gale lag ja’ 😜
July 10, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
More attention is being paid to body language in international politics than at any other time, thanks to ceaseless TV coverage of meetings between world leaders. Whether it is President Trump’s glad-handling and back-slapping, or…
July 10, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
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Take a tip: Why the US is a hand-out country in the real sense of the term 😜
July 7, 2017, 2:03 AM IST
On a recent visit there, i noticed a curious thing about America. Despite Donald Trump cutting back on a whole lot of social subsidies – or perhaps because of it – the US is truly…
July 7, 2017, 2:03 AM IST
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Yoga doesn’t always help: Sometimes you end up doing the I-can’t-get-up asana 😜
July 5, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
If you’re on your yoga mat right now trying to figure out which leg or hand to move to un-entangle yourself, take a deep breath. Here come some new studies that almost stand this traditional…
July 5, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
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Band baaja tax: It was announced with fanfare, but will the good and simple tax bajao our band? 😜
July 3, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
When the Goods and Services Tax was announced at midnight, VIPs stayed awake, citizens had a sleepless night and many businessmen lost their sleep. Bengalis have been worried for a while because now a 5%…
July 3, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
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Nagin dancing groom: He sets the bride swaying – away 😜
July 1, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
Daaru and desi weddings have a rummy relationship. It often begins with a heated discussion about whether to have an alcoholic wedding or non-alcoholic. Then, even when the sobersides score the official victory, they can…
July 1, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
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