Columns

You Can’t Be a Part-Time Father..!
Nope, I didn’t write this on Father’s Day. I waited. Like the real father should. Not for the cards, the
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June 16, 2025
Why China..?
Just when I thought I’d figured out our foreign policy—a headline in today’s paper left me scratching what’s left of
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June 15, 2025
Just Enough for God..!
It happens every Sunday. The bold are bustling, the extroverts elbowing, and the spiritually self-assured are busy sitting in the
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June 14, 2025
Grounding the Dreamliner..!
So now, NDTV says, they’re talking about grounding all Boeing Dreamliners flying in India. Yes, the same plane that evokes
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June 13, 2025
After Seeing Them Off..!
There’s a peculiar silence that follows a goodbye. It’s the kind that lingers in the air long after the honk
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June 12, 2025
Resignations, Accountability, and You..!
Years ago, while still young, I owned a contracting firm. One morning, I got a call that one of my
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June 11, 2025
Automatic Doors After They Are Dead..!
So, the Railways have announced—with the solemnity of a priest at a last rites service—that they’ll finally install automatic doors
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June 10, 2025
Servant Leader or Supreme Ruler?
It was like watching a low-budget remake of a despot’s courtroom drama—except this wasn’t set in some banana republic or
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June 9, 2025
Lower the Bribe Rate..!
A few days ago, while having my morning coffee, listening to the birds and flipping through the newspaper with one
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June 8, 2025
The Angels Are Vexed..!
The angels were vexed. Not just annoyed. Vexed. An old English word that belongs to Shakespearean dialogue, but perfectly suited
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June 7, 2025
Measure to Save Treasure..!
It was a heroic moment. Or so I thought. There I stood like some desi Hercules, staring at my treadmill.
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June 6, 2025
Dying Before Knowing…!
Many years ago, while writing for the Asian Age, a paper that MJ Akbar owned, he wrote me a line
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June 5, 2025