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Go Mumbai go: Pause, ask, but don’t give in
November 26, 2009, 3:56 PM IST
MUMBAI: It might seem impossible for politicians to shock us, especially in the aftermath of something like the 26/11 attacks which were permitted by their laxity, and exacerbated by their inept response. Yet one politician…
November 26, 2009, 3:56 PM IST
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Rape of the Aravalis: Photo blog 2
November 26, 2009, 2:27 PM IST
The ‘Pedalyatris’ were riding along a beautiful, desolate stretch of country road around Manesar in Gurgaon on a cool, misty morning when Ganesh exclaimed: What the hell is that! “Look to your left, look to…
November 26, 2009, 2:27 PM IST
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The candles Manmohan missed
November 25, 2009, 10:27 PM IST
I had visualized a 26/11 anniversary befitting the solemnity of the occasion with all parties’ leaders led by Manmohan Singh and Ratan Tata at Gateway of India paying homage to the innocent victims, saluting the…
November 25, 2009, 10:27 PM IST
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The Saviour At My Table
November 25, 2009, 9:09 PM IST
Morning shows the day, they say. But on that Wednesday exactly a year ago, even the balmy evening had given no inkling of the shadows to come. Oblivious of the Kuber offloading its unlisted cargo…
November 25, 2009, 9:09 PM IST
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Why I keep my mush and shave
November 25, 2009, 7:20 PM IST
Since this morning, I’ve got nine calls from friends asking if I’ve shaven my moustache off. The reason: Our paper has carried a story on its front page saying women prefer clean-shaven men. For those…
November 25, 2009, 7:20 PM IST
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Charity can and should be fun!
November 25, 2009, 5:37 PM IST
Charity can and should be fun!!! It’s the only way to captivate attention and make it a desirable way of life. The Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter work Project in Thailand was a memorable experience with…
November 25, 2009, 5:37 PM IST
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Involvement and Commitment
November 23, 2009, 1:15 PM IST
Dinner about to be served, a late frosty night in November, at a friend’s house in Amsterdam, then a senior auditor, and now a vice-president with KPMG, there was a sudden flutter as a serious…
November 23, 2009, 1:15 PM IST
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You be the judge in this child murder case
November 23, 2009, 12:00 PM IST
This blog is an appeal to you to be the judge in one of the most horrific and savage cases of child murder ever recorded. Here are the details which were forwarded to me by…
November 23, 2009, 12:00 PM IST
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Let’s stop jabbering about 26/11
November 23, 2009, 8:44 AM IST
The sole purpose of terrorism is to terrorise us. It is to create fear, gut wrenching fear, and spread panic everywhere. If terrorists can’t get that right, if they can’t whip up enough fear and…
November 23, 2009, 8:44 AM IST
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What we don’t mock anymore
November 22, 2009, 7:03 PM IST
Have we lost our ability to mock people, to see through those who posture and preen and puncture these pretensions with a dose of sardonic irony? We seem to live in a time when we…
November 22, 2009, 7:03 PM IST
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China has tamed India with help from Obama
November 22, 2009, 3:03 AM IST
India may not quite be yesterday’s Tanganyika but the assumptions
behind including it in a US-China joint statement weren’t dissimilar to
those imperial leaders who rolled out maps and coloured their spheres
of influence in red.November 22, 2009, 3:03 AM IST
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Cheap dollars stoke boom in India, Asia
November 22, 2009, 2:59 AM IST
It’s hard to remember the gloom and doom in India nine months ago. The Sensex had crashed along with real estate and commodities.
November 22, 2009, 2:59 AM IST
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Terror threat: We have lost the plot
November 22, 2009, 2:55 AM IST
The ebb from outrage to rage, its decline to umbrage, and then a drift
to amnesia is the narrative of the 12 months since the terrorist
assault on Mumbai, which shook India and startled the world.November 22, 2009, 2:55 AM IST
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Da Vinci Koda
November 20, 2009, 4:39 PM IST
Best-selling author Dan Brown has written a new international chart-buster called Da Vinci Koda which deals with a secret more profoundly perplexing than such eternal conundrums as the name of the houseboat Jesus stayed in…
November 20, 2009, 4:39 PM IST
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A Rs 6850 crore steel mill without bank loans or public issue!
November 20, 2009, 3:54 PM IST
This is as strange as it can get. The common charge against Indian entrepreneurs is that they create their enterprises with little investment of their own. Most of the money is raised as loan from…
November 20, 2009, 3:54 PM IST
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I won’t mind using sperms to defy age!
November 20, 2009, 12:20 PM IST
It was a cold evening in Delhi. Very very cold. So cold that I was trembling in my short dress. I was with my friends in an open coffee shop of a five star hotel….
November 20, 2009, 12:20 PM IST
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Let’s Talk ’26/1′
November 19, 2009, 9:08 PM IST
One sometimes wonders why the Indian government hardly ever issues ‘travel advisories’, when this is something some western countries announce two or three times a year to their citizens. Is it because we are a…
November 19, 2009, 9:08 PM IST
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Anita Dongre’s experience on her trip to Mijwan.
November 19, 2009, 3:41 PM IST
A few weeks ago Shabana Azmi called me and asked me to help her with a charity fashion event. This conversation led to me discovering a whole new world, of the small village of Mijwan…
November 19, 2009, 3:41 PM IST
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Is Hindi an endangered language?
November 19, 2009, 1:32 PM IST
THE question might be seen laughable given the phenomenal growth in Hindi language newspapers and their readership, and the still-impressive growth of the population in the states classified as Hindi-speaking. But consider two facts to…
November 19, 2009, 1:32 PM IST
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The Tiger Bites A Lion
November 18, 2009, 8:02 PM IST
Bichare Balasaheb. How it is his fault? What he can he do if the name of the state is Maharashtra. Means, it is the maha- rashtra, no? Means, it has to be greater than the…
November 18, 2009, 8:02 PM IST
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