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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
The Handsomest in the Room..!
I’ve always been fond of John. Short fellow, yes, but he somehow looked taller than most—on stage, in a crowd,
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September 1, 2025
You’ll Never Run Out of Pebbles..!
For the last one month or so, I’ve watched my daughter’s little one tug at my sleeve with one simple
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August 31, 2025
The Alexandra Limp and Us..!
Have you heard of the “Alexandra Limp”? A curious bit of history, really. In the late 1860s, Queen Alexandra, wife
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August 30, 2025
Dreading the ‘Retirement’ Word..!
Suddenly two old men in our country, reaching the age of seventy-five seem to be dreading giving up power and
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August 28, 2025