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Throttlers. Net bottlers.
8 Jun 2025 11:16 PM IST30 years after the launch of Internet connectivity, India has managed only basic levels of access speeds and reliability. Technology, meanwhile, is...
Octet Maximus
1 Jun 2025 11:19 PM ISTEight geographically-distant countries seem to have devised a common strategy to ensure India and Indians are kept at bay. What has sparked this trust...
Whiplash Guaranteed?
26 May 2025 1:02 AM ISTAs the US points a tariff finger at others, the three remaining fingers point at its own self. The result may be a trade meltdown, as has often...
‘Bad Planet’ Day
18 May 2025 11:51 PM ISTAlmost everything that makes ‘headlines’ is a reality we should be ashamed of. Mankind is a shadow of what it ought to have been at this stage of its...
Killing Absurdity
12 May 2025 1:28 AM ISTAfter the ceasefire, albeit one with some duplicity by an errant neighbour, it’s time for India to move on. The next battle – nip the media’s mad rush...
Brainwash Bosh
4 May 2025 8:21 PM ISTWhen the wife of Lieutenant Vinay Narwal called for peace, it was a slap on the face of divisive forces, who are as guilty as the men behind the...
Detorquing Terror
27 April 2025 8:42 PM ISTIt isn’t always surreptitious training in hidden jungle camps that breeds terror’s lethal offspring. Sometimes, individual tragedy metamorphoses into...
Move Over, Pinocchio
20 April 2025 11:01 PM ISTAfter Cola Wars, we had spats over burgers, sandwiches and Smartphones. We are now clashing over pans and greased woks, garnished with a sprinkle of...
India’s health insurance ricochet
19 April 2025 8:57 PM ISTHalf of all health insurance claims in India face serious processing and payment disputes. Rejections and part-payments are commonplace, with...
The US Boomerang
13 April 2025 9:31 PM ISTIt isn’t just the rest of the world that’s running thin on calculator key-pads and opulence. US citizens are also facing a harsh reality as pennies...
The T-Bomb
6 April 2025 11:09 PM ISTTrade attacks leave behind no craters or bloodied bodies, but they are still the roughest form of warfare. The US has fired its fusillade. The world...
Talking Shop: Heads on a Swivel
30 March 2025 8:47 PM ISTLook left, look right, look ahead, look behind. Reset. Resume the four-look vigil all over again. In an unpredictable, unsafe world, that’s the only...