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20 years, and counting
24 Oct 2020 11:00 PM ISTI met a beautiful and rather impetuous girl two decades back. Arrogant and shameless she was. Unfortunately, she still is. But somehow, she has...
The new art of war
15 Oct 2020 10:27 PM ISTAs the world increasingly takes to online transactions and electronic systems controls, our corporate and critical national infrastructure may now be...
CNG. Can Not Go?
10 Oct 2020 10:46 PM ISTI asked a friend to accompany me and Anjali to our home in Manali in a few days. He was keen, but festered long and hard about the longevity of his...
Trumpeting Away
3 Oct 2020 11:03 PM ISTIt is a strange and disquieting situation that while our own stalwarts are keeping quiet and are voiceless on the real burning issues confronting the...
Haste oft goes waste
26 Sept 2020 9:49 PM ISTWhen the media gets it wrong, it gets it really wrong, and the repercussions are far-reaching and damaging. Take the auto sector, for example. News...
When 80 went a-missing
19 Sept 2020 10:16 PM ISTA while back, we started strangulating and maiming numbers. To hide the truth. Shamelessly. For that’s convenient. The truth, though, comes out. And...
Drama and Disgrace
12 Sept 2020 10:16 PM ISTShamelessness is the new creed of the Indian media. Unprofessional and heartless, many parts of it are self-imploding. Take the coverage of Sushant...
Waiting for the fluke
5 Sept 2020 10:08 PM ISTPeople who promised us a COVID-19 vaccine in a few months are now detracting and backing off. After trying for a few months, they admit they are...
Post-COVID travel : Warming the cockles
29 Aug 2020 11:44 PM ISTDo an ‘Unlock 3’ trip from Delhi to Himachal soon. You can be assured that Monday in early-September Delhi, back to ‘work from home’, will be a really...
4.25 per cent. And ticking
22 Aug 2020 10:10 PM ISTThe RBI, no less, warned that we are headed for dangerous times. Times that shall trouble us, come April 2021, depriving us of years of savings. But...
Greatest leveller of all
8 Aug 2020 10:03 PM ISTCOVID-19 will not just go down in history as a once-in-a-100-years pandemic that took our pants and knickers off. It shall also be reminisced for how,...
Running out of concrete
1 Aug 2020 11:13 PM ISTAs a country, we are running out of concrete — in our warehouses, and in our veins. We flex our muscle and bellow Rafale & Bofors, but in things...