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How many words do you use a day?
February 3, 2012, 1:57 PM IST
How many words on an average do you use in your daily conversation and discourse. Not quite sure? Dr Karel Muncik of the Czech Republic claims he could tell you. The Czech researcher carried out…
February 3, 2012, 1:57 PM IST
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Dress rehearsal
February 2, 2012, 9:07 PM IST
A wedding is shortly about to take place in the family and hectic preparations have been afoot for months. I need to prepare for Sonam’s wedding, said Bunny a while ago. I agreed. Indian weddings…
February 2, 2012, 9:07 PM IST
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Union of India
January 31, 2012, 8:04 PM IST
Maya might well confound Mayawati and other political netas trying to work out the increasingly complicated caste calculus in UP as the state prepares to go to the polls. Maya is a 23-year-old domestic helper…
January 31, 2012, 8:04 PM IST
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Uncommon Ground
January 30, 2012, 10:42 AM IST
This book of conversations between people holding different points of view has a deliberately misleading title. Because Rohini Nilekani has managed to show that in the most uncommon of grounds, between the most adversarial of…
January 30, 2012, 10:42 AM IST
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Why thin-skinned India suffers from prickly heat
January 30, 2012, 10:26 AM IST
Why does India – official India – suffer from recurrent bouts of prickly heat? Why is India more thin-skinned and prickly than a porcupine given an electric shock? Why is India so ready to take…
January 30, 2012, 10:26 AM IST
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Jekyll-and-Hyde India
January 26, 2012, 9:55 PM IST
Can a country have a split personality? Can a nation be a Dr Jekyll and a Mr Hyde, as in R L Stevenson’s classic tale about the good and the evil that coexists within the…
January 26, 2012, 9:55 PM IST
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Goon with the wind
January 24, 2012, 9:19 PM IST
Jaipur’s Rushdie-gate shows that mobocracy is gaining ground in India
January 24, 2012, 9:19 PM IST
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How liberal is liberalism?
January 24, 2012, 4:03 PM IST
What is being called the Jaipur Literature Festival’s Rushdie-gate has once again raised questions about censorship, intolerance and liberalism to which I have yet to find satisfactory answers. I was, and am, against censorship. This…
January 24, 2012, 4:03 PM IST
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The story behind ‘storybooks’
January 22, 2012, 10:10 AM IST
A hard-headed and successful businessman I know is puzzled by my fondness for reading fiction, or ‘storybooks’ as he calls novels and short stories. “It’s all made-up stuff, all lies. How can you waste your…
January 22, 2012, 10:10 AM IST
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The best deal for both countries is Indo-Pak trade
January 20, 2012, 2:52 PM IST
How will the ongoing political crisis in Pakistan end? Will the army once again stage a military coup as it has so often done in the past? This is worrisome for New Delhi, which prefers…
January 20, 2012, 2:52 PM IST
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Ban wagon
January 19, 2012, 9:40 PM IST
Google and Facebook are only two of the many things the sarkar should gag. To stop social networking sites like Google and Facebook from spreading ‘objectionable matter’ likely to ‘promote hatred of minorities’ — particularly…
January 19, 2012, 9:40 PM IST
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Birth rite
January 17, 2012, 8:41 PM IST
The daughter of friends of ours recently gave birth to a baby girl. The baby arrived — via caesarean section — six days after the expected date, causing much anxiety. To everyone`s celebratory cheer, the…
January 17, 2012, 8:41 PM IST
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Smart comebacks to stupid questions
January 16, 2012, 10:20 AM IST
It must have happened to you. You come in out of the rain looking like a mobile swimming pool and some dear, concerned soul is bound to ask in a solicitous voice “Oh! Have you…
January 16, 2012, 10:20 AM IST
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Dirty picture
January 12, 2012, 9:43 PM IST
Like most other industries, the porn industry was also in the doldrums. Then, a sarkari initiative, led by information and broadcasting minister Ambika Soni, held out hopes for a revival. Heartened by the news, Kaa…
January 12, 2012, 9:43 PM IST
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Minority report
January 10, 2012, 9:45 PM IST
Just how representative of the wishes of the electorate — you and me — is Indian democracy? How representative are our elected representatives? And the answer is: Not very representative at all. According to a…
January 10, 2012, 9:45 PM IST
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The Litigators
January 7, 2012, 12:51 PM IST
As the latest John Grisham offering shows, the author’s bestselling stock-in-trade continues to be the increasing – and increasingly justified – paranoia with which people regard the world of mega-business and the murky dealings that…
January 7, 2012, 12:51 PM IST
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From Gurgaon to Grrrgaon
January 6, 2012, 3:05 PM IST
A virtually non-existent infrastructure marked by 8 to 12-hour power cuts a day have turned Gurgaon – billed as the glitzy ‘Millennium City’ – into an area of enraged darkness more aptly referred to as…
January 6, 2012, 3:05 PM IST
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Horror scope
January 5, 2012, 9:55 PM IST
As he always does, the well-known astrologer Bejan Daruwalla has sent me his zodiacal predictions for the new year. Many thanks, Bejan, for the book and your good wishes, which are heartily reciprocated. At the…
January 5, 2012, 9:55 PM IST
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Fame game
January 3, 2012, 9:24 PM IST
Do Anna Hazare and ‘Kolaveri di’ have anything in common? The question might not be as far-fetched as it sounds. Both almost overnight caught popular imagination and became international icons. The anti-corruption activist was publicly…
January 3, 2012, 9:24 PM IST
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Apocalypse never: every doomsday is also a birthday
January 2, 2012, 10:26 AM IST
As a sceptic pointed out, predicting the end of the world is a mug’s game. If the world doesn’t in fact end as you’d predicted it would, you’ll be made to look like an idiot….
January 2, 2012, 10:26 AM IST
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