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Talking Shop: Lest I buy a tractor
17 Sept 2023 4:58 PM ISTIf I do indulge in a tractor, I will have to pay interest of up to 23.26 per cent annually. But if I buy a luxury car, I pay 8-9 per cent. What is...
Talking Shop: Chaos on our roads
10 Sept 2023 6:48 PM ISTWe are fast losing our mental steam and stream. I witnessed this just the other night when traffic whizzed past me at shiny-red signals. Something has...
Talking Shop: Hung humans of sorts
3 Sept 2023 11:05 PM ISTWe are all strung together by an invisible, yet inextricable thread. Today, that same thread is fast turning into a garrotte that is strangulating us....
Talking Shop: When you return stuff
27 Aug 2023 11:30 PM ISTWhat happens when you buy things online, only to return them quickly? You’ll be quite surprised—you are creating a ‘reverse logistics’ industry worth...
Talking Shop: Debilitating morality
21 Aug 2023 12:18 AM ISTIt is tough to be gracious today, as global times are tough and the calls we have to make to survive tougher. Yet, we have to somehow learn to remain...
Talking Shop: Listless media monarchs
13 Aug 2023 11:03 PM ISTThey are inclined while reclined and everything that stands misaligned with their scheme of things they rudely decline. Welcome to our new media...
Talking Shop: Prognosis. Antipathy. Callousness.
6 Aug 2023 7:53 PM ISTSomething is terribly wrong. Some of the very people who protected us during the pandemic are acting like fiends now. They’re greedy and are milking...
Talking Shop: India’s last village
31 July 2023 12:09 AM ISTNestled in the Himalayas next to the country’s border with Tibet, Chhitkul is at India’s very skirt-edge. It is pristine, beautiful and still in...
Talking Shop: Dealing with pain
24 July 2023 11:59 AM ISTHistory shows us the heterogeneous ways in which humankind reacts to pain. While some get resigned and depressed, others can turn downright dangerous
Talking Shop: Mixed bag of tricks
17 July 2023 1:29 AM ISTThe week gone by has churned up all kinds of twists and turns, nationally and internationally. In the process, we have learnt to cope with chaos and...
Talking Shop: I was born by the river
9 July 2023 9:47 PM ISTJust like that river, I have been running ever since. This classic song nicely sums up today’s crisis, as we all scamper—to earn, escape or quite...
Talking Shop: Should I be disoriented?
2 July 2023 4:57 PM ISTNot really, but I am at times. I talk myself out of what most of the mainstream media is alluding to, cursing, cussing and yelling about. This will...