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Talking Shop: Unmasked and foolish
31 July 2022 7:22 PM ISTBy choice, most Indians are unmasked. We are slipshod and don't give a damn. I can but pray that COVID-19's new avatar doesn't smite us again
Talking Shop: Bloating naiveté
24 July 2022 11:57 PM ISTIndia is heavily dependent on the external world for fuel and edible oils, as in many other sectors. A flailing rupee is only making matters worse
Talking Shop: Sinking Fund
17 July 2022 7:27 PM ISTPray as we may, things are getting worse in the real estate sector. Now there’s a twist—the few getting homes are being forced to fund others
Talking Shop: Cats going meow
10 July 2022 10:29 PM ISTAcross the world, cats are feeling the heat, as are humans. Shameless callousness towards Climate Change and the economy are hitting home
Talking Shop: Bonhomie blinkered
3 July 2022 11:40 PM ISTI saw something very disturbing at a club in Delhi last week. I saw the so-called educated getting factionalized, minds literally writhed dry
Talking Shop: It is all ephemera
26 Jun 2022 7:06 PM ISTIt boggles my mind. I could have been a rail engine driver. A singer. A pilot. Soldier. India’s cricket kapitan. And yet, I turned out like this
Talking Shop: Bellwether times
19 Jun 2022 6:56 PM ISTIn the race for more, we may be forgetting the less that makes our lives richer. As we collectively quibble, we forget the reasons to keep smiling
Talking Shop: Visceral times
12 Jun 2022 9:16 PM ISTBlood-curdling genocide happened in Rwanda in 1994. Today, we walk an eerily similar line, with sections of our errant media stoking the fire
Talking Shop: Retired, yet bellowing
5 Jun 2022 8:54 PM ISTIt is bothersome that ageing cine-stars and former sportspersons are blatantly endorsing suspect products, with no one to question them
Talking Shop: Waning charisma
29 May 2022 7:20 PM ISTOnce a preferred global hot-spot for higher studies, India is now losing sheen. Not only are foreign students staying away, Indians too are opting to...
Talking Shop: The Softer Side
22 May 2022 8:22 PM ISTThere is a reason Britishers chomped their way up India’s mountains and lived there in summers. It is time to overlook their excesses and enjoy our...
Talking Shop: Our gormless today
15 May 2022 7:22 PM ISTThere is a definite agenda at play. And boy, do we have imagination running amok now, most of it dark, clandestinely mischievous and overtly...