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Talking Shop: Mystique of indulgence
11 Dec 2022 7:30 PM ISTPringles is just a can of potato wafers. But to witness the ecstasy on someone’s face when they dig into it for the first time is uniquely blissful...
Talking Shop: Re-birth of satire
4 Dec 2022 11:27 PM ISTUnbeknownst to many, satire was born in our very India in the 1600s and the first ‘stand-up comedians’ merrily blanched their rulers. The trend is...
Talking Shop: When oil runs thin
27 Nov 2022 8:02 PM ISTHumanity is turning to batteries and electric vehicles, while some are placing their faith in prayer and gas. The smarter ones, though, are tuning...
Talking Shop: Reset Moment
20 Nov 2022 7:30 PM IST‘Big-tech’ is getting smaller as a brutally cold winter sets in for the technology industry worldwide. Over 130,000 people have lost their jobs this...
Talking Shop: Looming breathlessness
13 Nov 2022 10:10 PM ISTIt surrounds us, pollution. It is overtly visible. Yet we transgress. At the end of the day, inordinate souls will pay. What is going so wrong in...
Talking Shop: Summer of '69
6 Nov 2022 7:04 PM ISTWith all due respect to Bryan Adams, hear this—the only good things about that summer were that I was born and some very precarious roads were built
Antsy and pan(t)sy
30 Oct 2022 9:05 PM ISTThere are more than a few things adverse about this column, just because it is a besieged essay. We don’t know anymore what and who to praise, or why
Talking Shop: Creating shellacs
24 Oct 2022 12:31 AM ISTI am all for a vibrant, effervescent and resurgent India. Yet, I am appalled by the mental miasma and nemesis maiming the good people left in our...
Talking Shop: Depression bomb
17 Oct 2022 12:23 AM ISTIn many ways, it is worse than the deadly N-option. Just last week, around 56 million Indians felt the hiss of the global meltdown. What feeds this...
Talking Shop: Last time I 'flied'
9 Oct 2022 11:05 PM ISTLest the headline bothers you, think of those we have beguiled. We promised those with slippers that they shall fly. They have; out of home and...
Talking Shop: Tightrope-walkers
3 Oct 2022 1:56 AM ISTThe average Indian has changed quite a bit. He is brusque and belligerent, yet recalcitrant and oft-submissive. We are surrounded by creepers turning...
Talking Shop: Cacophony and cronies
25 Sept 2022 7:09 PM ISTAs 2024 draws closer, political parties are upping the electoral ante. In tandem, their voices are getting uproarious too, especially on the telly













