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Bengaluru: The closest thing India has to urban utopia
May 20, 2026, 3:37 PM IST
Disclaimer: (before some Bengaluru resident files an FIR for cultural trespass) I write this as an outsider, a repeat visitor and therefore a dangerous man with confidence but limited municipal authority. This piece was triggered…
May 20, 2026, 3:37 PM IST
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Those who pressure-cook Kosha Mangsho should not be trusted with civilisation
May 12, 2026, 4:46 PM IST
There is a particular kind of person one encounters increasingly in modern urban India. They wear smartwatches that congratulate them for standing up, use phrases like “life hack” without irony, and believe every problem can…
May 12, 2026, 4:46 PM IST
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The misfit next door and the art of making a good club sandwich
May 6, 2026, 5:53 PM IST
Right next to the Taj in Mumbai, that grand, perfectly lit overachiever of Indian hospitality, sits the Royal Bombay Yacht Club, looking like it has absolutely no interest in competing. If the Taj is a…
May 6, 2026, 5:53 PM IST
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The great Indian lounge: Where privilege stands in queue
April 28, 2026, 8:09 PM IST
There was a time when an airport lounge did not need to announce itself. It simply existed like a well-read person in a noisy room. You entered, lowered your voice without being told to, and…
April 28, 2026, 8:09 PM IST
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Forty-six, or how a perfectly good day masqueraded as a disaster
April 12, 2026, 8:38 PM IST
Forty-six does not arrive with ceremony. It slips in quietly, like a meeting that could have been an email. But let me be honest: on the day itself, there was nothing quiet about it. This…
April 12, 2026, 8:38 PM IST
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The treadmill tightens: Inside the middle-class compression
April 7, 2026, 2:04 PM IST
There is a particular kind of Indian optimism that survives every data point. It lives somewhere between the annual appraisal and the Diwali bonus, between the polite nod in a townhall and the quiet calculation…
April 7, 2026, 2:04 PM IST
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Plenty of content but a shortage of journalism: Where everything is summarised and nothing is understood
March 30, 2026, 3:34 PM IST
There was a time, not very long ago, when journalism believed in the tyranny of the five questions. Who. What. When. Where. And, if the newsroom gods were feeling generous, Why. It was efficient. Respectable. Industrial. Facts…
March 30, 2026, 3:34 PM IST
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The Bhadralok at the Polo Ground: The horses will return, the ground may not
March 23, 2026, 1:24 PM IST
Sunday afternoons, in a certain version of India, still carry the faint echo of hooves. Not the hurried, honking chaos of our usual lives, but a slower, more deliberate rhythm. Leather on grass, mallet meeting…
March 23, 2026, 1:24 PM IST
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Menu cards and other works of fiction at 35,000 feet
March 11, 2026, 9:03 AM IST
Air travel is one of those modern experiences that sits delicately between aspiration and mild disappointment. Somewhere between the optimism of the boarding gate and the philosophical resignation of the baggage carousel lies a curious…
March 11, 2026, 9:03 AM IST
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The quiet defiance of bespoke: Why some of us still go to tailors
March 3, 2026, 6:26 PM IST
To walk into a tailor’s shop today is to commit a small act of cultural rebellion, not the dramatic sort that involves barricades or slogans, nothing that will trouble the stock market, but rebellion nevertheless….
March 3, 2026, 6:26 PM IST
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On rightsizing, righteousness, and the myth of corporate love
February 24, 2026, 6:58 PM IST
Somewhere between your third weekend review call and your fifth performance calibration, you began to believe something rather tender: that work notices, it keeps score, and it has memory. It does keep score. It just…
February 24, 2026, 6:58 PM IST
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What got you here won’t get you there (and why some of us are not in a hurry)
February 16, 2026, 3:24 PM IST
‘What got you here won’t get you there.’ It is one of those sentences that arrives wrapped in concern and delivered with kindness, yet leaves behind a faint residue of reproach, as though one has…
February 16, 2026, 3:24 PM IST
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The VIP Ticket and the Fine Art of Being Sidelined: What Feudalism in a QR Code Looks Like
February 11, 2026, 2:44 PM IST
There is something uniquely Indian about paying a super-premium price for a VIP ticket and still being made to feel like a gatecrasher at your own expense. That was the experience at Anoushka Shankar’s Chapters Tour…
February 11, 2026, 2:44 PM IST
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Budget and the great Indian middle-class delusion
February 4, 2026, 1:27 PM IST
This is my twenty-fifth year in journalism, and my twenty-fifth Union Budget. Once upon a time, it was a three-day carnival. It began with the Railway Budget, moved to the Economic Survey, peaked with the…
February 4, 2026, 1:27 PM IST
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The 4:30 AM Delusion and the Man Who Stayed Put
January 26, 2026, 6:57 PM IST
Every generation invents its own idea of virtue. Ours wakes up early, announces it loudly, and expects applause before breakfast. Somewhere between the ice bath and the smoothie, discipline stopped being a private arrangement with…
January 26, 2026, 6:57 PM IST
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Scott Adams is gone. The pointy-haired boss lives on.
January 16, 2026, 10:13 PM IST
Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert, died on January 13, 2026. It feels strangely fitting that the news arrived without spectacle, because Adams spent a lifetime observing how the most consequential things in organisations rarely…
January 16, 2026, 10:13 PM IST
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What’s wrong with you? A civilisation-sized misunderstanding, with footnotes
January 12, 2026, 6:30 PM IST
We live in an era that greets survival with suspicion. If you’ve made it this far, career intact, family functioning and spine still vaguely upright, the first instinct is not admiration but diagnosis. Yes, but…
January 12, 2026, 6:30 PM IST
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The end of volume or velocity journalism has been announced before. It never quite arrived.
December 29, 2025, 5:49 PM IST
I spent these December weekends doing what digital editors now perhaps do on long weekends – watching lines fall. Traffic charts, update notes, before-and-after comparisons, the familiar ritual of trying to locate meaning in a…
December 29, 2025, 5:49 PM IST
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Dear LinkedIn, no more shapes: I’m already emotionally acute
December 10, 2025, 11:31 AM IST
Geometry, for most of us, ended the day we closed our Class 10 maths textbook and vowed never to think about isosceles triangles again. It was a dignified subject once. It helped build pyramids, chart…
December 10, 2025, 11:31 AM IST
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The off-platform Martians theory and other fantasies we should retire
November 28, 2025, 2:24 PM IST
Every now and then a theory wanders out of the savannahs of LinkedIn, a place where confidence is abundant and evidence is optional. The latest one suggests that on-platform users behave like Earthlings and off-platform…
November 28, 2025, 2:24 PM IST
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