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Angrezi bachao: The so-called ‘Hindi heartland’ might do an about-turn and promote the cause of English
August 23, 2023, 8:25 AM IST
Every now and again the so-called ‘Hindi heartland’ of north India resounds to the call of ‘Angrezi hatao!’, ‘Chuck out English!’, which it perceives as an undesirable legacy left to us by our erstwhile colonisers….
August 23, 2023, 8:25 AM IST
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Goa getaway: Home sweet home is sweeter if we can go away from it once in a while
August 18, 2023, 9:20 AM IST
Bunny and I are once again in Goa, our favourite destination, to which we keep returning, again and again. If you like it so much, why don’t you just go and live there? People often…
August 18, 2023, 9:20 AM IST
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Kisses and hisses
August 16, 2023, 8:54 AM IST
The kiss is once again making media headlines – should that be liplines? – in the country. For many years there was a lively debate as to when, and if, Indian film censors would allow…
August 16, 2023, 8:54 AM IST
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Independence thoughts
August 11, 2023, 8:42 AM IST
I was born a few months before India saw its historic midnight tryst with destiny. So in a way, the two of us, my country and I, have grown up together. It’s been quite a…
August 11, 2023, 8:42 AM IST
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Local lucre: An innovative currency used in London’s Brixton could boost the economy of India’s neighbour
August 9, 2023, 8:02 AM IST
Suppose you lived in Delhi’s Karol Bagh, or Kolkata’s Kalighat, or Mumbai’s Churchgate, or Chennai’s Mount Road, and when you bought something – a meal in a restaurant, a pair of jeans or a sari…
August 9, 2023, 8:02 AM IST
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AI, AI, oh!
August 4, 2023, 7:00 AM IST
Two capital letters of the alphabet which could reverse 300,000 years of human evolution: Not so long ago the letters A and I, put together, would occasion controversy and consternation, and generally raise bells of…
August 4, 2023, 7:00 AM IST
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Sense and sensibility
August 2, 2023, 8:40 AM IST
Would Lord Krishna really be offended by a small scene in a Hollywood movie? In Jane Austen’s novel which bears the same name as the heading of this column, two sisters respectively represent Sense, meaning…
August 2, 2023, 8:40 AM IST
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Europe’s garam hawa and Brexit
July 29, 2023, 5:00 AM IST
The continent’s summer of sweltering discontent can only add fuel to the heated debate between ‘remainers’ and ‘leavers’ as UK heads into a bruising general election 2025 In Noel Coward’s song only mad dogs and…
July 29, 2023, 5:00 AM IST
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Throw them away
July 28, 2023, 8:37 AM IST
The other day, trying to cut open a tinfoil sachet of coffee with the kitchen scissors, I discovered that the blades had blunted. We need to get this thing sharpened, I said, and set in…
July 28, 2023, 8:37 AM IST
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Discovery of India
July 26, 2023, 8:32 AM IST
When I was a child, I heard about questions that Indians were asked when they went to foreign countries. In those days, foreign travel was a distant prospect, literally and metaphorically, for the majority of…
July 26, 2023, 8:32 AM IST
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Fugitive pies & vegan wellingtons! Has the brit way of life© vamoosed?
July 24, 2023, 3:30 PM IST
Where have all the chippies gone? Long time passing. Where have all the nice pubs gone? Long time ago. For the London tourist in search of so-near, yeti-so-far angrezi fare, it has got elusiver and…
July 24, 2023, 3:30 PM IST
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Readers beware!
July 21, 2023, 8:29 AM IST
Can the printed word be as injurious to the emotional health of the reader as cigarettes are to the physical health of the smoker? Recent developments in the publishing world suggest that the works of…
July 21, 2023, 8:29 AM IST
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Valuable veggies: The soaring prices of tomatoes could give rise to all kinds of new enterprise
July 19, 2023, 10:06 AM IST
In a daring daylight raid, 2,000 tonnes of tomatoes were looted yesterday from the Safal Suraksha Bank in central Delhi by dacoits which the police believe belonged to the dreaded Ghasphoos Gang, led by the…
July 19, 2023, 10:06 AM IST
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Outsourced India: For us the success stories of Rishi Sunak etc should be a matter of regret not rejoicing
July 14, 2023, 8:47 AM IST
There’s a post doing the rounds on social media that exults in the achievements of people of India origin who, transplanted to foreign fields, have reached the pinnacles of success. The gist of the post…
July 14, 2023, 8:47 AM IST
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Bird of Avon: A recent book claiming that Shakespeare was an Italian woman has created a Tempest
July 12, 2023, 8:09 AM IST
Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety, wrote Shakespeare in his play Antony and Cleopatra, referring to the Queen of the Nile. But could that description equally be applied to the playwright…
July 12, 2023, 8:09 AM IST
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Learners must learn to leave the master
July 7, 2023, 1:49 PM IST
In Paris in 1909 an unnoticed event occurred which eventually was to change forever the annals of not only French literature but that of the world. A 38-year-old son of middle-class Jewish parents, who spent…
July 7, 2023, 1:49 PM IST
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Travelling light: Many, if not most, of us carry too much luggage when we embark on our journeys
July 7, 2023, 8:03 AM IST
In the 1957 film The Spirit of St Louis, about Charles Lindbergh’s history-making solo flight across the Atlantic in 1927, the aviator, played by James Stewart, sits in the cockpit of his plane watching a…
July 7, 2023, 8:03 AM IST
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Population problems: There are too many people in some parts of the world and not enough in others
July 5, 2023, 7:47 AM IST
Has Mother Earth borne too many children for her to support? The world’s population has crossed eight billion. And though the population replacement rate – the number of children people have to replace themselves –…
July 5, 2023, 7:47 AM IST
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A taste for London
June 30, 2023, 3:00 AM IST
Shedding its stodgy image, the British metropolis has become one of the world’s top culinary capitals: Bunny and I are in a food court that’s over 1,570 square km in size. It’s called the Greater…
June 30, 2023, 3:00 AM IST
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Eternal India: When viewed from afar the ever-changing changelessness of the country is very reassuring
June 28, 2023, 8:18 AM IST
When I am in foreign parts, as I am while this is being written, I often feel a pang of homesickness. What do I miss most about India? Well, my home, of course, which over…
June 28, 2023, 8:18 AM IST
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