Jug Suraiya VOICES
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Chaos is our dharma
February 15, 2011, 1:45 PM IST
It’s often said that India is functioning chaos. That seeming contradiction in terms is, in fact, not a contradiction at all. On the contrary, it is a confirmation of the truth about India and Indians:…
February 15, 2011, 1:45 PM IST
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ODIs and T20 just ain’t cricket
February 15, 2011, 1:41 PM IST
Everyone agrees that ODIs and Twenty20 are a stupendously popular success. But purists complain that they just aren’t cricket anymore. This argument misses the central point: ODIs and Twenty20 are a huge hit precisely because…
February 15, 2011, 1:41 PM IST
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Tiger mom vs Bharat Ma
February 10, 2011, 8:42 PM IST
Never mind Arunachal Pradesh, the Dalai Lama and other minor matters. What’s exercising Mother India about China is Amy Chua, the so-called ‘Tiger mother’ whose book on how to bring up children has become an international best-seller.
February 10, 2011, 8:42 PM IST
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Divide and misrule
February 8, 2011, 8:01 PM IST
Can India ever go the way of Egypt, or of Tunisia, where entrenched regimes have been deposed or look as though they soon will be? And the answer of course is ‘No’. For one thing,…
February 8, 2011, 8:01 PM IST
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Unmade-to-order
February 3, 2011, 8:12 PM IST
Little things keep going wrong to distract us from bigger things that could go wrong
February 3, 2011, 8:12 PM IST
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State of confusion
February 1, 2011, 8:08 PM IST
Is the government in office the same as the state? Not at all. Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee’s raised more than hackles last week when he suggested opposition parties who were stalling parliamentary proceedings ‘should join…
February 1, 2011, 8:08 PM IST
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Brass tax
January 27, 2011, 8:39 PM IST
Bunny and i are to blame. For all the money stashed away by a variety of Indian fat cats in foreign accounts from Switzerland to the Cayman Islands. No one quite knows how much loot…
January 27, 2011, 8:39 PM IST
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Thin edge of the veg
January 25, 2011, 9:53 PM IST
Do our experts know their onions? Speaking about the steep rise in the price of vegetables, particularly onions, and what to do about it, the deputy chairman of the Planning Commission, Montek Singh Ahluwalia, made…
January 25, 2011, 9:53 PM IST
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As good as it gets
January 24, 2011, 10:31 AM IST
(This is a book review.) The other day I once again bumped into Isabel Dalhousie – owner-editor of the Edinburgh-based ” Review of Applied Ethics” and a practising moral philosopher – who brought me up…
January 24, 2011, 10:31 AM IST
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Fast forward
January 20, 2011, 9:03 PM IST
The Suraiya household is no longer a land of milk and honey. Particularly milk, the consumption of which as a whitener for tea has been strictly rationed by Bunny. Neither of us drinks tea with…
January 20, 2011, 9:03 PM IST
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Competitive corruption
January 18, 2011, 8:22 PM IST
Hard on the heels of the Commonwealth Games scandal came Adarsh, followed bythe 2G spectrum rip-off followed in turn by the Citibank-based fraud. And as if all that were not enough, the mother of all…
January 18, 2011, 8:22 PM IST
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IPL slavery
January 13, 2011, 8:17 PM IST
In the mid-19th century Abraham Lincoln fought a civil war in America to free the slaves. In the 21st century, over 60 years after it gained independence, India continues to be enslaved. To cricket, particularly…
January 13, 2011, 8:17 PM IST
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Not saffron or green
January 11, 2011, 9:19 PM IST
Is so-called saffron, or rightwing Hindu, terror an answer to so-called green, or radical Islamist, terror? No, it isn’t. Terror – by whatever name it calls itself, or that others call it – is never…
January 11, 2011, 9:19 PM IST
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True Beauty Of Being
January 8, 2011, 12:04 PM IST
In Galsworthy’s Forsyte Saga, Soames, the rich and acquisitive Man of Property, is enthralled by the beautiful Irene. He wants to possess her beauty, the way he possesses the grand mansion he buys for her,…
January 8, 2011, 12:04 PM IST
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Let it all hang out
January 6, 2011, 7:54 PM IST
Even before Mukesh Ambani moved into his 27-storey, 7-star abode in Mumbai, super-luxury high-rises became the in thing, not only in Mumbai but also in Gurgaon and in all other parts of the country. Not…
January 6, 2011, 7:54 PM IST
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Sedition scam
January 4, 2011, 8:45 PM IST
The Indian state puts on a show of strength to hide its weakness.
January 4, 2011, 8:45 PM IST
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Tend your garden
January 3, 2011, 11:48 AM IST
Voltaire’s final word of advice to his readers was: Tend your garden. What did the French philosopher mean by this? Did he really want all of us to become gardeners, cultivating roses and mowing the…
January 3, 2011, 11:48 AM IST
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Make a khichri of it
January 1, 2011, 11:11 AM IST
Khichri? Yuck. That’s the standard response to the most maligned dish in the subcontinent. Its mention evokes images of invalids and upset stomachs. It’s a synonym for an inelegant mish-mash, an unappetising jumble. A ragtag…
January 1, 2011, 11:11 AM IST
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Motu’s rip-off price
December 30, 2010, 9:56 PM IST
Skyrocketing food prices finally compelled Bunny and me to switch from Motu to our local supermarket. Motu is the owner of the kirana or daily needs shop in the National Media Centre where we live….
December 30, 2010, 9:56 PM IST
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All India Radia
December 28, 2010, 9:45 PM IST
Far from subverting democracy lobbyists help to promote it
December 28, 2010, 9:45 PM IST
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