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Talking Shop: Ageing, but not gracefully

22 Aug 2022 1:26 AM IST
This is not me, but all of us in India. After 75 years of independence, we are still scared of calling a spade a spade. Most of us are complete burps

Talking Shop: Sold for a song

14 Aug 2022 9:34 PM IST
Citing a blasé pollution control directive, the authorities are forcing many to get rid of their prized cars that are still in pristine condition

Talking Shop: Lost Kohinoors

8 Aug 2022 1:47 AM IST
It is the genetic makeup of Indians, brought up tough, to grin away even as a harsh reality maims us. History is once again revisiting us

Talking Shop: Unmasked and foolish

31 July 2022 7:22 PM IST
By choice, most Indians are unmasked. We are slipshod and don't give a damn. I can but pray that COVID-19's new avatar doesn't smite us again

Talking Shop: Bloating naiveté

24 July 2022 11:57 PM IST
India is heavily dependent on the external world for fuel and edible oils, as in many other sectors. A flailing rupee is only making matters worse

Talking Shop: Sinking Fund

17 July 2022 7:27 PM IST
Pray as we may, things are getting worse in the real estate sector. Now there’s a twist—the few getting homes are being forced to fund others

Talking Shop: Cats going meow

10 July 2022 10:29 PM IST
Across the world, cats are feeling the heat, as are humans. Shameless callousness towards Climate Change and the economy are hitting home

Talking Shop: Bonhomie blinkered

3 July 2022 11:40 PM IST
I saw something very disturbing at a club in Delhi last week. I saw the so-called educated getting factionalized, minds literally writhed dry

Talking Shop: It is all ephemera

26 Jun 2022 7:06 PM IST
It boggles my mind. I could have been a rail engine driver. A singer. A pilot. Soldier. India’s cricket kapitan. And yet, I turned out like this

Talking Shop: Bellwether times

19 Jun 2022 6:56 PM IST
In the race for more, we may be forgetting the less that makes our lives richer. As we collectively quibble, we forget the reasons to keep smiling

Talking Shop: Visceral times

12 Jun 2022 9:16 PM IST
Blood-curdling genocide happened in Rwanda in 1994. Today, we walk an eerily similar line, with sections of our errant media stoking the fire

Talking Shop: Retired, yet bellowing

5 Jun 2022 8:54 PM IST
It is bothersome that ageing cine-stars and former sportspersons are blatantly endorsing suspect products, with no one to question them
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