Columns

Prayer and a Landline..!
T’was a few years ago sitting at my cousin’s house in Delhi with a host of friends and relatives we
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March 19, 2022
The 51st Class Reunion..!
It was fifty years since they’d passed out from school. There were giggles and chuckles, lots of laughter as balding
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March 18, 2022
China Edging Closer..!
In the days of old, even just a hundred years ago, nations made secret agreements with each other. These treaties
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March 17, 2022
The Heat Is Killing Me..!
The stuffed teddy bear, belonging to one of my daughters when she’d been little, now sat in all regality on
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March 16, 2022
Profiting from Suicide..!
A few months ago, a president of a social club called an organization which was to teach him leadership training
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March 15, 2022
Tall Trains and Low Bridges..!
For a few years now, Mumbai has been talking about air-conditioned local suburban trains! Every day as commuters sweat it
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March 14, 2022
Our Valuable Junk..!
People coming home ask me why I still keep most of my junk, and I tell them of the same
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March 13, 2022
Passiontide and Justice..!
Was surprised to see that my Sunday political column had been displaced in the Nagpur newspaper, since they were celebrating
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March 12, 2022
Are We becoming an Insular Nation?
It was blistering hot as I lay on the deckchair, in a beach somewhere in the country, and like all
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March 11, 2022
Say, ‘No Problem’ to Problems..!
Quite often I hear somebody telling me, “No problem!” In fact the phrase became so common, that now I hear
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March 10, 2022
Settling Her Down..!
“Bob, please look for a suitable boy for my daughter!” said the voice of an old friend of mine on
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March 9, 2022
A Huge Cheque..!
It was a huge cheque I saw in the newspaper! Specially made for the occasion, designed for the publicity it
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March 8, 2022