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Taliban as a Friend..!
Now we have a new friend. The Taliban! Yes, the same Taliban once described in international forums as terrorists, medieval-minded
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Tear Your Clothes..!
Tear your clothes today — not in anger, not in fashion, but in shame. Yes, tear them, because what we
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My Proud Index Finger..!
Suddenly my very humble index finger has started getting proud. All these years, it’s been an obedient little fellow —
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Death in the Skies..!
It was with deep sadness I read of the death of an aged Indian cardiologist while flying on Qatar Airways.
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Balance Your Work and Fun..!
What I love seeing in the U.S. is the Friday afternoon traffic. No, not the angry honking, or the rush-hour
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I Take the Blame..!
Today, the Prime Minister lands in Navi Mumbai to inaugurate a gleaming new international airport. Cameras click, drones hum, and
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Finding ‘Landing Ground’..!
It was a quote that made me smile this morning. “We have to find landing ground for our trade discussions,”
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Our No Touch Cricket Policy..!
It’s not the United Nations or NATO that’s in panic this week—it’s the world’s cricket boards! All over the globe,
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Be Still, Knowing…!
There are days when my fingers hover over the keyboard, the screen stares back blankly, and I tell myself, “Be
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Fake News and Official Truth..!
Strange isn’t it? We live in an age where the word news has become the most misleading of all words.
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Trapeze Artist Dies, Psychologists Called..!
It was a tragic evening in Bautzen, Germany. A twenty-seven-year-old trapeze artist, flying through the air, missed her hold and
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Gandhi Jayanti, Dasara and Democracy..!
Today has two celebrations—Gandhi Jayanti and Dasara—both point us to the same lesson: the fight for freedom and the triumph
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