I will make such a wonderful India that all Americans will stand in line to get a visa for India. Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Hands up, all those who have heard of The Henley Passport Index. All hands down, I see, which is pretty much what I expected. I had not heard of The Henley …
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Firestarter
Denied loan, man sets bank on fire. News reports. Spare a thought for Wasim Hazaratsab Mulla, 33, a resident of Rattihalli town in Haveri district, Karnataka. He had applied for a loan for an undisclosed sum from his friendly (or so he thought) neighbourhood branch of a nationalized bank. As is the way with bureaucracy …
The Bad, the Ugly and the Good
If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace. John Lennon. I have just finished watching 19 episodes over two seasons of an American serial titled, Boss. In case any of you is interested, it is being streamed on the Amazon Prime Video channel. My providing this information is in no …
Ring out the old, with those year-end rankings
New Year’s is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions. Mark Twain. With columnists and bloggers such as yours truly, it almost seems an article of faith that as the dawn of a new year approaches, we are honour bound …
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Where have all the greeting cards gone?
It is that time of the year again. Whether we want to or not, whether we mean it or not, whether we have any genuine feelings for a particular individual or not, we feel obliged to send out all manner of overly cheerful and at times, even soppy messages of good cheer as the last …
Games people play
Oh the games people play now, every night and every day nowNever meaning what they say, yeah never saying what they mean Joe South, 1969 Former NDTV news anchor Nidhi Razdan is in the news. Again. Let me rephrase that. Nidhi Razdan is the news. Till a couple of years ago, the personable face of …
No sex please, we’re Customs
Sex toys hit city Customs barrier, end up in godown. The Times of India. Honestly, I am fed up to the back teeth with our newspapers these days. All they ever talk about is the pandemic, border skirmishes, petrol prices, Modi and Putin bear-hugging, Sidhu, Channi and the Captain squaring off in Punjab, and some …
Omigosh! It’s Omicron!
It’s a bird, it’s a plane. No, it’s the super-spreader, Omicron! I had vowed to myself, several months ago, that I will not write another word on Covid, the virus that has been the blight of our lives this past couple of years. I have had to go back on my word. Literally. The fact …
The Great Indian Debate
The art of debating was actively encouraged when most of us were still in our early teens. In its barest essentials, the way we defined a debate as practised in schools and college campuses was roughly on the following lines. The House proposed a motion, as in ‘This House believes that bullying in schools should …
Farming the strike
A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus. E.B. White. The government has finally decided to repeal the contentious farm laws. After close to a year of backing and forthing, accompanied by plenty of bickering and frothing at the mouth, threats, dharnas, morchas and eyeball to …
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