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Little big Goa
January 31, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
Over the years the tiny state has grown in size compared with the rest of the country Over the years, minuscule Goa has enlarged itself. It’s not that, like a sleeper wakening and stretching, it…
January 31, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
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Motu’s MRP
January 29, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
Magical new delivery apps threaten to put paid to traditional kirana shops across the country Poor Motu’s days seem to be numbered. Motu is the name ascribed to the two proprietors of the kirana shop…
January 29, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
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Fashion and b-i o
January 24, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
Changing styles in everything from clothes to cars is what keeps the wheels of commerce spinning At first I thought it was a case of mass somnambulism, people walking in their sleep. Men and women…
January 24, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
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Her(culean) labour
January 22, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
An update of an old saying: A man might stare from sun to sun, but a woman’s work is never done Intrigued by the hornet’s nest stirred up by a corporate bigwig’s exhortation to office-goers,…
January 22, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
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Caste a doubt
January 17, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
A questionnaire asking me for my pecking order in the social hierarchy would leave me dumbfounded Along with Bunny I find myself caught in the crossfire of a caste war. Following the example of Bihar,…
January 17, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
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Musk kalandar
January 15, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
The SpaceX and Tesla tycoon is using his megabucks to play an international Game of Thrones Elon Musk, by far the world’s richest individual, worth over $421bn, is playing an international Game of Thrones. By…
January 15, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
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Don’s akhand America…then what?
January 13, 2025, 7:33 AM IST
The US prez-elect’s territorial expansionism could start a global Operation Landgrab His detractors say that as US prez-elect, Donald Trump makes a great standup comic. As proof they might adduce his recent one-liners about making…
January 13, 2025, 7:33 AM IST
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Great Indian kitchen
January 10, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
A Bihari banquet brings home the culinary and cultural diversity of the country I last visited Bihar in the mid-70s to interview Jayaprakash Narayan – JP as he was called by his followers – in…
January 10, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
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Enlarging America
January 8, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
By wanting to buy Greenland, Trump hopes to revive a time-honoured US real estate tradition Donald Trump seems ready to modify his MAGA mantra, Make America Great Again, to Make America Greater Again. Not content…
January 8, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
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GRAP trap
January 6, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
To tackle the problem of pollution, authorities might need to learn the ABC of AQI As the new year dawns NCR continues to GRAPple with the deadly bane of pollution – a recent proposal being…
January 6, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
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A singular man
January 3, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
I recall a meeting with someone who embodied that most uncommon of qualities, common decency I had mixed feelings about the meeting. I was eager to meet someone whom I greatly admired and respected. Yet,…
January 3, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
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Call it off!
December 27, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
148 years after Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, we’ve uninvented it In March 1876, Alexander Graham Bell made the world’s first telephone call. It lasted for less than ten seconds and consisted of nine…
December 27, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
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A taste for Xmas
December 25, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
The many flavours of a singular recipe embody the spirit of the season of goodwill to all I developed a savour for Christmas the first time I had a piece of the cake that bears…
December 25, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
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Post dated
December 20, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
A surprise Yuletide visitor has brought us a wonderful Christmas present Last week Bunny and I received a surprise visit from a bearer of gifts who, in our minds, had long become a myth. No,…
December 20, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
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Yankee, come home
December 18, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
India should cash in on the boom in outward-bound anti-Trump migration from US As Donald Trump prepares to preside over the Oval Office, America is on the move, literally. According to reports, many thousands of…
December 18, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
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Ill bill
December 13, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
The benefits of medical insurance weigh against the pathological compulsions of VFM In his timeless classic, Three Men in a Boat, Jerome K Jerome in one of the delightful diversions for which his books are…
December 13, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
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$ vs the world
December 11, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
The almighty American dollar mightn’t be mighty enough to isolate itself from all other countries US prez-elect Donald Trump is flexing the muscles of the almighty American dollar, in which over 80% of all international…
December 11, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
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Kanji winters
December 6, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
After a scorching north Indian summer, the golden sun of winter brings a 24-carrot treat North India’s winter of polluted discontent, which makes daily headlines, is compensated for by a sudden efflorescence of vegetables and…
December 6, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
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The great escape
December 4, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
The world might be all set to witness a new wave of international refugees and illegal migrants The world is bracing itself for an additional flood of refugees and illegal migrants seeking sanctuary from civil…
December 4, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
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Pest uncontrol
November 29, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
An unwelcome visitor in the house gives rise to thoughts about unwanted intruders at large The first sign that we had an unwelcome visitor at home was food that was left briefly unattended in the…
November 29, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
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