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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...
Talking Shop: Mimetic times
8 May 2022 9:52 PM ISTWe are mindlessly flirting with communal madness. We have been for a while now and may soon see the deadly fallout, as Skowrers attempt to score a win
Talking Shop: Weighing us down
1 May 2022 8:21 PM ISTI was casually watching TV last week and chanced upon a documentary series being anchored by Barack Obama. Can any of our Indian leaders counter this?
Taming paper tigers
24 April 2022 7:26 PM ISTThere are literal tigers on our city roads today, prancing around and flouting traffic rules. They had hibernated for a while, but are back with a...
Cyclops, anyone?
17 April 2022 8:52 PM ISTThe Cyclops is a tragic figure in Homer’s epic ‘The Odyssey’, who is blinded by the protagonist, Odysseus. Is this classic being replicated in my...













