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Unwrapping the season

December 9, 2024, 5:00 AM IST

All its gift-giving is quite stressful First came Diwali. And now the end of the year brings another blur of festivals, celebrations and holidays that send gift-giving into a frenzy. Even for those who appreciate…

December 9, 2024, 5:00 AM IST

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IAmFedUp@co.in

May 21, 2024, 8:04 AM IST

How much technology can human beings handle, before they give up in despair? When do people hit their personal ‘thus-far-and-no-further’ moment? Did that awakening happen when they faced the horror of never returning to the…

May 21, 2024, 8:04 AM IST

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Mrs P’s pulao

April 16, 2024, 8:21 AM IST

Last week, I made pulao – not just any old pulao, but Mrs Punhani’s pulao. Because, like every girl who went to school with me will swear, that is the only way to make it….

April 16, 2024, 8:21 AM IST

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Below the Vindhyas: There are UPites, Biharis, Malayalees, Tamils settled in Bangalore. Or Bangaloreans

January 9, 2024, 8:26 AM IST

“The boy is a Bangalorean,” my neighbour explained with relief as she announced her daughter’s engagement. And all the apartment aunties congregating on the katte(bench for non-Bangaloreans) nodded approvingly. Somewhere along the way, our loyalties…

January 9, 2024, 8:26 AM IST

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English as she is spoke: Nothing black and white about it

December 1, 2015, 12:03 AM IST

A couple of generations back (think Nehru, Nirad Chaudhuri et al), urban India spoke English with a clipped British accent. The educated classes were more Brit than the Brit themselves. They did the Times crossword,…

December 1, 2015, 12:03 AM IST

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