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A hard choice? Or not?
16 Jan 2021 11:21 PM IST‘Incredible’ may not be the appropriate adjective to describe the event, but incredible indeed it was to watch a sitting President of the United...
Friday needs a Sunday
9 Jan 2021 10:42 PM ISTTo kill off a car in 10 or 15 years is a joke, especially in a country like India. And far more radically so in the times that we are going through...
Who the hell needs 5G?
2 Jan 2021 10:30 PM ISTThe few surviving telecom firms in India have demanded that 5G air-waves be auctioned by the Government at the soonest. To some extent, I agree....
Good end to bad rubbish
26 Dec 2020 11:11 PM ISTGiven its sheer spite and Machiavellian permutations, 2020 fell woefully short of leaving us with any good memories. But in the midst of illness,...
Running out of air
19 Dec 2020 11:20 PM ISTFor the uninitiated, here’s a wake-up call, while we still breathe easy and free. We are headed for a calamity of our own doing, but we shamelessly...
When eyes have water
12 Dec 2020 11:00 PM ISTI am turning old and had concluded that life’s ups and downs have hardened my countenance and shell. Not totally, it seems… For yesterday, some simple...
A pair of jeans
5 Dec 2020 11:31 PM ISTIt is heart-breaking that we find ourselves in such a state of affairs in India today, economically and otherwise. Why should I talk evasively? Let me...
Death of a Legend
28 Nov 2020 10:45 PM ISTQuietly and largely unnoticed, a giant has flown into the dusk and disappeared — for good, never to return, thanks to COVID-19 and the changing world...
Best left in the shelf
24 Nov 2020 10:49 PM ISTRBI’s recommendation to allow industrial houses to launch and operate banks is akin to pulling the pin out of a grenade and then waiting for it to go...
Another one bites the dust
21 Nov 2020 11:43 PM ISTJust when we had begun to relax our heart and gut muscles after months of fear and worry, there’s more terrible news. COVID-19 has entered its third...
Abuse of the lockdown
7 Nov 2020 11:14 PM ISTI first noticed the trend six months back, as repeated classified ads in newspapers shook me up, and the innocence in the pictures let out in me a...
The woods 'were' lovely…
31 Oct 2020 10:49 PM ISTIt has taken not even a month for the brutal impact of humankind to make itself felt again in the lap of nature. In the higher Himalayas, the Lahaul...