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The many worlds of India and Barack Obama
November 9, 2010, 1:21 PM IST
When Barack Obama comes to India, he will be coming not just to another country but to a civilisation comprising many worlds and many centuries that co exist not just side by side but are…
November 9, 2010, 1:21 PM IST
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Swagatam – welcome to proto call
November 6, 2010, 2:19 PM IST
If the business of America is business, the business of India is protocol. This appears to be truer than ever as official India readies itself to greet President Barack Obama. From the people he’s bringing…
November 6, 2010, 2:19 PM IST
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Jargon jagran
November 4, 2010, 9:41 PM IST
A new buzzword is doing the rounds, not just in Delhi, but all over the country. The word is interlocutor. And the context is Kashmir. Kashmir is a touchy subject in India, as Arundhati Roy…
November 4, 2010, 9:41 PM IST
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Smiley’s business
November 4, 2010, 8:23 AM IST
When the Berlin Wall came tumbling down, it raised the question: Had the spy finally come out of he cold; had George Smiley in his trench coat walked away into the last sunset? With the…
November 4, 2010, 8:23 AM IST
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Superhero downsized
November 2, 2010, 9:14 PM IST
Superman isn’t the same anymore; neither is Barack Obama. The mightiest and arguably the best-loved of all American comic book heroes for well over half a century, Superman has recently been relaunched by his publishers…
November 2, 2010, 9:14 PM IST
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The Casanova complex: Why men are such womanisers
November 1, 2010, 11:22 AM IST
The cost is prohibitive, the position ridiculous and the pleasure transitory. Lord Chesterfield’s summary pronouncement on sex could be an apt postcoital-script on the expose of Tiger Woods’s compulsive promiscuity which created a sensation in…
November 1, 2010, 11:22 AM IST
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Courtesy call
October 28, 2010, 8:49 PM IST
Sawasdee ! That word – pronounced with a charming lilt, Sa-was-d e e, and accompanied by a gracious bow and a namaste – was the word i heard most frequently during my recent visit to…
October 28, 2010, 8:49 PM IST
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If freedom fail
October 26, 2010, 9:35 PM IST
(This piece is a comment) Freedom to dissent is one of the basic tenets of any true democracy. But can that freedom include the freedom to break away from the polity that constitutionally guarantees the…
October 26, 2010, 9:35 PM IST
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Right to complain
October 21, 2010, 9:12 PM IST
Through no particular fault of the airline I was travelling by, I was having a bad flight. It’s not that my seat was particularly small or cramped; it just felt that way because the passenger…
October 21, 2010, 9:12 PM IST
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Kashmir bargain
October 19, 2010, 9:35 PM IST
Should India trade the Valley for a permanent UN Security Council seat?
October 19, 2010, 9:35 PM IST
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Quiet, please
October 15, 2010, 12:05 AM IST
In an overcrowded world, silence and solitude are the ultimate luxuries
October 15, 2010, 12:05 AM IST
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Improvised India
October 12, 2010, 8:38 PM IST
(This piece is a comment) The Commonwealth Games have shown yet again that India has a knack of winning by the simple expedient of throwing away the rulebook. The harvest of medals reaped by our…
October 12, 2010, 8:38 PM IST
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Numero Uno? No. 2’s better
October 9, 2010, 3:36 PM IST
Being No. 1 is highly overrated. Too much is made of the first, or No.1, of anything: the first achievement, the first anniversary (which, of course, is also an achievement of sorts). Everyone knows the…
October 9, 2010, 3:36 PM IST
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Thumbs down
October 7, 2010, 9:31 PM IST
The result of two million years of evolution: C U L8R
October 7, 2010, 9:31 PM IST
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Suffer the children
October 5, 2010, 8:57 PM IST
(This piece is a comment) The most shocking part of Delhi’s recent case of child abuse over a period of 18 months a school van driver repeatedly drugged, raped and sodomised three children aged between…
October 5, 2010, 8:57 PM IST
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Ghoos story
October 1, 2010, 5:31 AM IST
(This is a humorous piece) In India, the big ‘C’ stands not so much for ‘Cancer’ as for ‘Corruption’. Corruption, which seems to thrive at all levels, is perhaps the single biggest threat to our…
October 1, 2010, 5:31 AM IST
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Face the flak
September 28, 2010, 8:37 PM IST
(This piece is a comment) Even if the Commonwealth Games go off without any further glitches and that’s a big if indeed India has already received a damning press internationally because of the shameful squalor,…
September 28, 2010, 8:37 PM IST
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Indutva
September 27, 2010, 1:23 PM IST
(This piece is a comment) Like most, if not all, Indians, I face an identity problem. And the problem is not that I don’t know who I am; the problem is that that there are…
September 27, 2010, 1:23 PM IST
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Life Sucks
September 23, 2010, 9:24 PM IST
(This is a humour piece) When I was a kid growing up in Calcutta, vampire movies starring Christopher Lee as the blood-sucking Count Dracula were hugely popular. The character was based on Irish novelist Bram…
September 23, 2010, 9:24 PM IST
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Ayodhya alternative
September 21, 2010, 8:39 PM IST
(This piece is a comment) The country is holding its breath before the high court judgement on Ayodhya on September 24. Will the masjid/mandir issue erupt again in violence? Both the government and the BJP…
September 21, 2010, 8:39 PM IST
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