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Abuse of the lockdown

7 Nov 2020 11:14 PM IST
I 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 IST
It 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 IST
I 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 IST
As 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 IST
I 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 IST
It 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 IST
When 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 IST
A 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 IST
Shamelessness 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 IST
People 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 IST
Do 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 IST
The 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...
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