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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...
Talking Shop: Bigger than ourselves
28 May 2023 12:26 PM GMTIt is easy to believe we are supreme, till we are finally brought to our knees by forces that are more powerful than us. It took a 99-year paati to...
Talking Shop: A little fear, a lot of joy
21 May 2023 12:46 PM GMTThankfully, it is a variegated mix of people that one encounters when you go to the hills. A few are hurly-burly, others curvy-scurvy... Some balance...
Talking Shop: For fleeting gains
14 May 2023 6:19 PM GMTTemporary is the new buzzword, it appears, as world leaders and people alike prepare only for the immediate tomorrow, leaving the actual future...
Talking Shop: Pushed into a corner
7 May 2023 11:16 AM GMTIndian women in the employment sector are crashing in numbers, fast. What is desperately needed is immediate and concerted intervention to stem the...
Talking Shop: Mayday. Mayday. Mayday.
30 April 2023 12:39 PM GMTAll around us, the air we breathe and the water we consume are increasingly getting contaminated. Now, there’s a deadlier force at
Talking Shop: I don’t have that number
23 April 2023 7:02 PM GMTWhat number, you ask? Well, the magic number that could be called to reel in calmness into our lives, ridding us of all the tumult that is engulfing...
Talking Shop: A minute before midnight
16 April 2023 12:50 PM GMTThe way the Earth’s population is exploding, there will be a fight for food and other means of sustenance on the streets in some decades. What can we...
Talking Shop: In the name of the Lord
9 April 2023 12:41 PM GMTAs long as there has been one God, the world has been exploiting and killing in his name for eons. Many did it for power, others for land and some...
Talking Shop: We need coconuts
2 April 2023 12:16 PM GMTWe really do. People who can take tough calls for the nation’s well-being, but are still soft enough inside to do justice to humbler and softer...
Talking Shop: Last sporting chance
26 March 2023 11:49 AM GMTThe India men’s cricket team and its major players are toggling their minds, for the end may well be nigh. Two World Cups beckon, or their world is...