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Wanted – A Statesman..!
Our political leaders in the ruling party are getting old, and soon we will need younger, dynamic ones to lead
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September 12, 2025
Being Human yet Invisible…!
I opened the paper this morning and there it was—big, bold headlines telling me that Salman Khan had stretched his
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September 11, 2025
Being Your Own Doctor..!
Today’s headline in page fourteen of the Times of India screamed, ‘Many Indians are treating AI as a doctor. And
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September 10, 2025
Behind that Closed Door..!
Yesterday, it was somewhere above the Atlantic Sea, maybe higher, maybe closer to heaven, that I noticed it. A door.
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September 9, 2025
Pretending to Play the Second Fiddle..!
Last week I wrote about people who played second fiddle and changed the world, but alongside that had written another
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September 8, 2025
Nothing Fishy…!
I am inside the Chicago aquarium; one step inside and I am five years old again—nose to glass, palms flattened,
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September 8, 2025
GPS and God..!
It’s funny, isn’t it? You slip into your car, punch in an address, and the voice of a polite young
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September 6, 2025
Repair the House, Don’t Paint the Cracks..!
It’s always easier to live in a lie, isn’t it? Like the man who paints cracks in his walls the
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September 6, 2025
The Bold and the Cowardly..!
There’s always a hush in the land when a bold voice speaks. A hush not of respect, but of secret
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September 4, 2025
The Real ‘Sin’ in Sin Tax..!
So, the GST Council has decided to simplify our lives. Yes, you heard right—simplify! Out go the old four tax
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September 4, 2025
Rectifying India’s Bruised Ego..!
Ah, a billion or more of us have our cheeks swollen again! Not from a cricket ball hurled by a
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September 3, 2025
When Playing Second Fiddle..!
I sometimes wonder if the violin named “second fiddle” ever felt insulted. After all, when the orchestra begins, the spotlight
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September 2, 2025