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Talking Shop: Summer of '69
6 Nov 2022 7:04 PM ISTWith all due respect to Bryan Adams, hear this—the only good things about that summer were that I was born and some very precarious roads were built
Antsy and pan(t)sy
30 Oct 2022 9:05 PM ISTThere are more than a few things adverse about this column, just because it is a besieged essay. We don’t know anymore what and who to praise, or why
Talking Shop: Creating shellacs
24 Oct 2022 12:31 AM ISTI am all for a vibrant, effervescent and resurgent India. Yet, I am appalled by the mental miasma and nemesis maiming the good people left in our...
Talking Shop: Depression bomb
17 Oct 2022 12:23 AM ISTIn many ways, it is worse than the deadly N-option. Just last week, around 56 million Indians felt the hiss of the global meltdown. What feeds this...
Talking Shop: Last time I 'flied'
9 Oct 2022 11:05 PM ISTLest the headline bothers you, think of those we have beguiled. We promised those with slippers that they shall fly. They have; out of home and...
Talking Shop: Tightrope-walkers
3 Oct 2022 1:56 AM ISTThe average Indian has changed quite a bit. He is brusque and belligerent, yet recalcitrant and oft-submissive. We are surrounded by creepers turning...
Talking Shop: Cacophony and cronies
25 Sept 2022 7:09 PM ISTAs 2024 draws closer, political parties are upping the electoral ante. In tandem, their voices are getting uproarious too, especially on the telly
Talking Shop: A sham called CCTVs
18 Sept 2022 7:44 PM ISTI call this a sham because mostly CCTVs do not exist, despite the Hon’ble SC’s orders. Where they do, hidden agendas capture more than they do
Talking Shop: Decapitating times
11 Sept 2022 7:53 PM ISTThe times are changing. Our luscious hills and mountains are hitting back, hard. It’s time to introspect and act, lest we destroy what we grew up with
Talking Shop: Less than a man
5 Sept 2022 7:48 PM ISTIt’s quite humiliating for a man to be physically pushed. The same man can only wonder what goes through the souls of women who are tarred for life
Disconnected
4 Sept 2022 1:21 AM ISTFor trivial reasons, even inane and naive, global authorities often disrupt Internet services in parts of their nation. Does this achieve anything at...
Talking Shop: Changing the rules
28 Aug 2022 9:16 PM ISTSometimes, players change the rules midway to win the game. That is not cause for worry; what is deadly is their intrinsic agenda and the true intent