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Synthetic normalcy: When the bio-bubble is a 21st century variant of Marie Antoinetteâs cake corner
May 4, 2021, 2:00 AM IST
Look here, I love IPL. I love it as a celebration of the worst excesses of late-stage capitalism, as an amped-up mutation/ mutilation of the base game, and as spice for my social media bile,âŠ
May 4, 2021, 2:00 AM IST
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Humour has left me: Instead I am angry. I am angry because this crisis need not have happened
April 20, 2021, 2:00 AM IST
Itâs difficult to write a humour column, at a time when thousands across India are dying from a lack of hospital beds and oxygen cylinders, and experts warn us that we are only on theâŠ
April 20, 2021, 2:00 AM IST
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Kim Kardashian, I get: The House of Windsor no, with all their wealth built on supremely organised crime
April 6, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
There is a Bengali word called âadhikhyetaâ, loosely translated to âtoo much fuss over a trifleâ. I have always found this obsession with the British royal family exactly that. Adhikhyeta. From the times of LadyâŠ
April 6, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
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Bengal as beacon: After years of flight of Bengalis, the state has become to politics what PSL is to Dale Steyn
March 23, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
As I obsessively devour the drama of the Bengal elections, a few points seem to come up again and again as part of the narrative. One is the presence of âbohiragotosâ or outsiders, be theyâŠ
March 23, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
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Bengal: Final frontier: There is no more compelling reality television than the stateâs merry-go-round election
March 9, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
In the IPL you have a player being bought by a franchise, then telling the press that he has always wanted to play for that franchise. Till next year, when heâs let go and pickedâŠ
March 9, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
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Invisible buttons: You know they know you want to rise to their bait. Grit your teeth and ignore
February 23, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
One of the things you learn as a parent of a newborn is to not react every time they cry. Sure, there are times you have to get up and soothe or say âNo Noâ,âŠ
February 23, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
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For consistencyâs sake: Should you, not having written a book, have no right to criticise the ones I write?
February 9, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
Should Rihanna, by virtue of being not a citizen of India, keep her opinion of India to herself? Should Sachin confine his opinions only to cricket? Should you, by not having written a book, haveâŠ
February 9, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
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Strange new world: Coolie No 1 without Govinda. BJP in Bengal. K-pop. India winning a Test series in Australia
January 26, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
As a teenager from the 90s, there is so much in this new world that I just canât wrap my head around. Coolie No 1 without Govinda. BJP in Bengal. K-pop. India going to AustraliaâŠ
January 26, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
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Look in the mirror: Schooling Marco Rubio, once adversary and now love slave of Supreme Leader
January 12, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
After the storming of the Capitol by armed insurrectionists owing allegiance to the Supreme Leader, âsmall handsâ Marco Rubio, once adversary now love slave of aforementioned Supreme Leader, compared the situation to what happens inâŠ
January 12, 2021, 2:05 AM IST
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A lucky year: Because we made it through. And had a medical reason to not socialise
December 29, 2020, 2:05 AM IST
Usually, at the end of the year, I land myself up in a blue funk, contemplating yet another twelve months of âlack of weight lossâ, bad A1C numbers, and the general plateauing that characterises middleâŠ
December 29, 2020, 2:05 AM IST
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My fatherâs right: I am not a kid anymore, I shouldnât expect gifts and balloons on my birthday
December 15, 2020, 2:05 AM IST
Itâs going to be my birthday. Now my father tells me that I should grow out of wanting to treat this day as something I expect the world to notice. I am not a kidâŠ
December 15, 2020, 2:05 AM IST
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Oh woe is she: How stressful are the fabulous lives of Bollywood wives
December 1, 2020, 2:05 AM IST
In 1890, Jacob Riis wrote a book called How the Other Half Lives, where he documented, through photographs, the terrible living conditions of poor immigrants in New York City, revealing to affluent New Yorkers aâŠ
December 1, 2020, 2:05 AM IST
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Family first: Cadging an invitation to the White House for aunty and uncle
November 17, 2020, 2:05 AM IST
Dear Kamala, You wonât remember me, but I am your grandfatherâs third-removed cousinâs sonâs neighbour. We are all very proud of you for becoming the vice-president of the USA. I knew from the very beginningâŠ
November 17, 2020, 2:05 AM IST
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Simply Eclairs: A desi calculus for choosing Uncle Trump or Uncle Joe
November 3, 2020, 2:05 AM IST
As the US presidential elections come close, the question upmost in the desiâs mind, is âWho is better for India â Trump or Biden?â The easiest way to think about Joe Biden, and he isâŠ
November 3, 2020, 2:05 AM IST
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It wasnât romantic: Once upon a time I met the Devil in a theatre in Kolkata
October 20, 2020, 2:05 AM IST
One of the things I donât miss in the Covid world is movie theatres. Donât get me wrong, I love cinema, I just donât like the theatre experience. And this is not part of myâŠ
October 20, 2020, 2:05 AM IST
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Tinker, Tailor: Are your Pujo memories also aflush with shirt and pant pieces?
October 6, 2020, 2:05 AM IST
The festive season is upon us. The season for getting gifts. Things may have changed but when we were growing up, Level 2 relatives showed up before Pujo with a âshirt pieceâ or a âpantâŠ
October 6, 2020, 2:05 AM IST
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Rocking the dad bods: When the CSK âuncleâ squad was baby-sitting the baby-faced Sam Curran
September 22, 2020, 2:05 AM IST
One thing that I find sorely under-represented in competitive international cricket is people like me. You know, older, middle-aged people with dad bods, who may not be in the best of shape, whose body-fat percentageâŠ
September 22, 2020, 2:05 AM IST
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Remember when ⊠We used to actually visit each otherâs houses and eat out in large groups
September 8, 2020, 2:05 AM IST
Cooped up in the isolation wrought by Covid, where with a sinking GDP and the shooting-up in the number of the infected, we live in what Ravish would call a âdarr ka mahaulâ (an environmentâŠ
September 8, 2020, 2:05 AM IST
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Kamala pasand: We want to know, does she prefer Ilayaraja over AR Rahman? Does she also like mangoes?
August 25, 2020, 2:05 AM IST
Very soon, we will have the first Indian vice-president in the US, and I am so excited. Did you see that she even gave a shout out to her chithis, what an achievement for India, theâŠ
August 25, 2020, 2:05 AM IST
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What do you miss? I miss crowds, the happy din and noise not just of people we know but strangers
August 11, 2020, 2:05 AM IST
One of the ways of keeping yourself content, the ancient Stoic philosophers used to say, is to find happiness not in what âcould beâ but in what âisâ. For example, rather than pegging your happinessâŠ
August 11, 2020, 2:05 AM IST
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