Columns

Just One Choir Voice..!
There was once a priest who had his choir in the church which he looked after, and the choir was
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January 8, 2022
Paternity Leave Bill..!
My young neighbour Kumar whose wife was expecting a baby, rode in the lift with me to the car park
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January 7, 2022
Leavin’ Footprints in Yer Home..!
Been watchin’ an old video of the Chinese Olympic opening night held over a decade ago, and been gazing spellbound
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January 6, 2022
Inflation and a Hundred Rupee Note..!
I opened the morning paper and frowned as I read headlines about inflation in India, “This is ridiculous!” I muttered
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January 5, 2022
The Fake from Charleston..!
It was at the historic city of Charleston I found the flute. I’d wandered into one of the oldest markets
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January 4, 2022
As Is Where Is Condition..!
In many an auction you hear the auctioneer offering some particular piece in an ‘as is where is condition’! Which
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January 3, 2022
Passion, It’s Free..!
If today’s column has come in a little late, t’was because I was in the plane flying home from New
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January 2, 2022
Pardoning is a Bigger Revenge..!
Some years ago I read how an Indian sentenced to death by UAE’s Supreme Court for murdering a girl had
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January 2, 2022
An Excitingly Still New Year..!
And as the New Year dawned this morning, there was I am sure a missing feeling for the partying and
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December 31, 2021
Mischief In Her Eyes..!
She was seventy, with mischief in her eyes! She’d always had mischief in those eyes of hers, as bubbling teen,
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December 31, 2021
It’s Not Bad, ’tis Good…!
Quite often as a newspaper columnist I forget that instead of concentrating on the dim side of situations, to remind
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December 30, 2021
Throw Those Free Glasses Away..!
“What’s happening?” I ask as a man on the street with a loudspeaker announces, “Free! Free! Free!” “A political party
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December 29, 2021