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Talking Shop: Kermit Life
19 Jan 2025 8:01 PM ISTBusiness gymnasts tell us that things containing palm oil are all bad. ICMR and medical experts rubbish this and call it vilification. What really is...
Talking Shop: Wildcard Return
12 Jan 2025 8:32 PM ISTDonald Trump has been loved, hated and baited. But he has seldom been ignored. His renewal as US President will see ambition, change and controversy...
Talking Shop: Chausson Aux Pommes
7 Jan 2025 2:29 AM ISTAround the planet, an apple a day keeps the doctor away. Legend has it that in St. Calais, it kept the grim reaper at bay. India too needs apples to...
Talking Shop: Arrogance. Apathy. Chutzpah.
30 Dec 2024 12:01 AM ISTYear 2024 will reverberate for long, for it exposed how insolence and audacity have infested our lives. Even the just-departed Manmohan Singh wasn’t...
Weekends Are Nice
22 Dec 2024 11:00 PM IST…Only because stock markets are closed. The wild oscillation in indices is scary, exposing ‘experts’ who are reacting to romanticism and ignoring...
Talking Shop: Vile Currency
16 Dec 2024 1:43 AM ISTIn India, bribery isn’t a vice, it is a parallel economy. Getting a driving license or a global order, nothing happens sans ‘chai-pani’. Corruption is...
Auto sales stay negative: Bumper discount deals fail to ring in happy end to year 2024
16 Dec 2024 12:55 AM ISTOver 800,000 new cars worth Rs 2 lakh crore are gathering dust in stockyards, a gnarly symptom of the bad times afflicting the Indian automobile...
Talking Shop: Suckers for Punishment
8 Dec 2024 7:40 PM ISTSelf-styled messengers of God are being deified as reincarnations. Even those with criminal convictions are being celebrated, almost as if India has...
Talking Shop: Pollution Collusion
1 Dec 2024 9:02 PM ISTHidden culprits are silently stoking pollution and SPM levels. Among them are industrial emissions, shipping zones, power plants… And you, cooking at...
Mocked & Blocked
25 Nov 2024 3:41 PM ISTTry as consumers and authorities might, unsolicited callers remain as mentally indigent as ever. A flustered TRAI is preparing to sock them with all...
Talking Shop: Gluttony Personified
17 Nov 2024 6:56 PM ISTMan was a hoarder and accumulator. But with time, he changed too. Be it the Earth or skies or someone’s home-delivered food, man became greedy for it...
Tuna never had it so good; India’s mega-export push
13 Nov 2024 3:24 AM ISTNew Delhi: Tuna has never had it so good, and the Indian Government has also recognised this fish’s unique nutritional and health benefits. Among the...