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Arrogance, my dear reader, is not a trait you’ll find in confident people. It’s what you find in people who

July 22, 2025

Seventy-four. In most families today, that’s the age you’re expected to finally go on that Europe trip, take up pottery,

July 22, 2025

Quite often—no, delete that—very often, a good psychologist, especially the expensive kind who has a couch and not just a

July 19, 2025

Have you seen that video? The one where an Indian woman in Los Angeles is caught shoplifting, her cart bursting

July 19, 2025

Someone turned to me the other day and said with great philosophical finality, “Well, it was his karma, no?” The

July 18, 2025

As I sip my morning coffee and flip through the papers, I can’t help but notice something that’s becoming as

July 17, 2025

Was chatting yesterday with an editor of an American magazine. Now she may have looked like the average Manhattan professional—coffee

July 16, 2025

The world, it seems, is no longer whispering. It’s murmuring loudly, speculating wildly, and pointing fingers with grim certainty at

July 15, 2025

“Humans,” sighed Andy the little Ant, flattening himself against a cracked tile, “have only one purpose in life: to kill

July 15, 2025

It was a line I read years ago, tucked away in a traffic police safety article: “He crashed because he

July 14, 2025

The other day I was humming “Abide With Me” under my breath—yes, just quietly, reverently, in my usual out-of-tune baritone—when

July 11, 2025

Over the years, I’ve felt rather smug about my eyesight. Never needed glasses for anything except reading. While friends began

July 11, 2025

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