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Talking Shop: Peculiar Problem of Plenty
27 Oct 2024 7:50 PM ISTRussia-Ukraine. Israel-Iran. China-India. Haryana-Delhi. History is full of stories of mankind’s lust for more. Or less, depending on what fulfils...
Talking Shop: Careening Off-Track
20 Oct 2024 8:22 PM ISTRailways are a lifeline in India, and that makes the recent spate of mishaps not only cause for raised eyebrows, but a matter of grave concern for...
Talking Shop: What’s on Your Plate?
13 Oct 2024 11:52 PM ISTIndia, a land of spices and diversity, is now also a hub of adulterated food. Our bread, milk and paneer are peppered with greed and a dash of toxic...
Talking Shop: Turn Off the Burner
6 Oct 2024 7:09 PM ISTIt’s a dish that has been on the boil since the 1950s and is still on the burner. It is time to turn off the gas and close the argument over palm oil...
Talking Shop: Telecom Shotguns
30 Sept 2024 7:19 PM ISTWhen we talk telecom, we hem and haw about rising zeros in debt figures and liabilities. We all forget the investors, hapless casualties of this...
Talking Shop: Shan’t till until I’m still
23 Sept 2024 5:23 AM ISTA peculiar contagion has afflicted the next generation of India’s rural workers. Despite living a hand-to-mouth existence, many just don’t seem to...
Talking Shop: Love’s Labour’s Lost
15 Sept 2024 11:13 PM ISTI am not plagiarizing Shakespeare with the header. Much as his title above had little to do with the actual play, our economic policies seem steeped...
Talking Shop: Naukri. Mockery. Etc.
9 Sept 2024 1:36 AM ISTIt is sad that I am writing this column. But I simply have to. We earlier spoke of crores of jobless Indians. We now speak of even IIT graduates...
Talking Shop: Where is this J&K?
1 Sept 2024 6:54 PM ISTDon’t rush to give me a condescending call; I am not geographically challenged. My question is: “When will we accept J&K as part of India, not a...
Talking Shop: A Dying Man Will
25 Aug 2024 6:22 PM ISTGasping for breath or clutching at straws, he will do anything to survive. Similar to him are India’s billion-plus souls, stretching their rupee to...
Talking Shop: Shameless. Callous. Impotent.
18 Aug 2024 9:36 PM ISTA year after the slaughter, ruckus rules the hillsides again, as if man has taken a vow to decimate all that is beauteous. It may be apt to call it...
Talking Shop: Mom’s the word
11 Aug 2024 6:44 PM ISTWe might and perhaps should forget the Paris Olympics from the standpoint of Indian medal wins, but it will reverberate for long for the guts and...