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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...
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...