The ‘good old times’ – all times when old are good. Lord Byron Nostalgia. Those who wallow in it are almost certainly, and let us not mince words, long in the tooth. They are defined by the length of their teeth. I freely admit that I belong to this category. As I write this piece, …
Continue reading ” Looking in the rear-view mirror. Longingly.”
A man can’t soar too high, when he flies with his own wings. William Blake. Our Prime Minister Narendra Modi, whose brand equity suffered an appreciable dent after the recent General Elections in the country, continues to hold the reins of power, albeit tenuously, at the Centre. If he were a fan of The Beatles, …
The candle flame gutters. Its little pool of light trembles. Darkness gathers. The demons begin to stir. Carl Sagan. In the year 1973, when I was barely out of college, the talk of the town was a movie called The Exorcist, based on William Peter Blatty’s magnum opus novel of the same name and directed …
I am baffled beyond words as to why so many of us in India are going ga-ga and being insanely suffused with vicarious joy and pride whenever a person of Indian origin makes a mark in the world of politics, industry, sport or any other field of endeavour in the western hemisphere. When Rishi Sunak …
It is that time of the year when everyone who is anyone starts talking about the rains. A date has been set for the monsoons to hit our shores. The boffins at the meteorological department look at their wall calendars, with some trepidation, close their eyes and stab a forefinger somewhere on the sheet …
A housewife was arrested recently in Bangalore for attacking her husband with a pair of scissors. She was deeply upset over his refusal to eat dinner her mother had specially cooked for him. She is being questioned by the police. Press Reports. ‘Madam, do you realise you could have killed your husband? Why did you …
I am often asked, sometimes asked, somebody asked me once – why I do not write more often in leading newspapers and other online publications. The operative phrase here is ‘more often,’ meaning thereby that I have contributed to newspapers and online sites, but infrequently. There are several reasons for this and rather than list …
So that’s the telephone? They ring, and you run. Edgar Degas. I don’t know about you, dear reader, but over the past few months I have been receiving some strange calls on my mobile phone. I would not classify them as crank calls exactly, but apparently the aim is to fool you into believing …
A number of films or television serials these days open with a black screen sternly informing the viewer in bold, reverse type that ‘Smoking is injurious to health.’ That is old hat of course, and we have been seeing that health warning or its variants on cigarette packs – ‘Smoking causes cancer’ – visually aided …
Continue reading ” Statutory warnings are injurious to your entertainment”
By the time you read this, the entire country will be agog with what the exit polls are saying with regard to the likely winners and losers of India’s mega general elections, the final results of which will be declared a couple of days later on June 4. This, after waiting for six insanely long …
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