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Talking Shop: Debilitating morality
20 Aug 2023 6:48 PM GMTIt is tough to be gracious today, as global times are tough and the calls we have to make to survive tougher. Yet, we have to somehow learn to remain...
Talking Shop: Listless media monarchs
13 Aug 2023 5:33 PM GMTThey are inclined while reclined and everything that stands misaligned with their scheme of things they rudely decline. Welcome to our new media...
Talking Shop: Prognosis. Antipathy. Callousness.
6 Aug 2023 2:23 PM GMTSomething is terribly wrong. Some of the very people who protected us during the pandemic are acting like fiends now. They’re greedy and are milking...
Talking Shop: India’s last village
30 July 2023 6:39 PM GMTNestled in the Himalayas next to the country’s border with Tibet, Chhitkul is at India’s very skirt-edge. It is pristine, beautiful and still in...
Talking Shop: Dealing with pain
24 July 2023 6:29 AM GMTHistory shows us the heterogeneous ways in which humankind reacts to pain. While some get resigned and depressed, others can turn downright dangerous
Talking Shop: Mixed bag of tricks
16 July 2023 7:59 PM GMTThe week gone by has churned up all kinds of twists and turns, nationally and internationally. In the process, we have learnt to cope with chaos and...
Talking Shop: I was born by the river
9 July 2023 4:17 PM GMTJust like that river, I have been running ever since. This classic song nicely sums up today’s crisis, as we all scamper—to earn, escape or quite...
Talking Shop: Should I be disoriented?
2 July 2023 11:27 AM GMTNot really, but I am at times. I talk myself out of what most of the mainstream media is alluding to, cursing, cussing and yelling about. This will...
Talking Shop: Immoral and downright callous
25 Jun 2023 1:08 PM GMTThere are things that get my goat and things that don’t. For instance, a recent interview of ex-US President Barack Obama was quite a peach, an...
Talking Shop: Dread gone askance
18 Jun 2023 11:18 AM GMTThe last few months have been refreshing as we bid adieu to a scourge called COVID-19. But there is need for caution, for other evils are gnashing...
Talking Shop: Lonely and bitter
11 Jun 2023 11:55 AM GMTThe last two weeks have been lovely for me, which led me to wonder how the rest of the Earthlings were doing. Sadly, 43 per cent of the globe is...
Talking Shop: A funny, cuddly summer
4 Jun 2023 12:49 PM GMTAfter a blessed 2014, Year 2023 has turned out to be very kind for North India in terms of heat waves. I can only wonder—is this cause for cheer or...