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Vini Jr question: When do ‘incidents’ amount to racism or communalism?
May 28, 2023, 10:30 AM IST
When does an ‘incident’ become an -ism? Does it depend on the number of ‘incidents’? The percentage of their occurrence/recurrence in a given set? On the way these ‘incidents’ are handled? These are questions that…
May 28, 2023, 10:30 AM IST
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Upset by World Cup ‘upsets’? Blame it on globalisation
November 27, 2022, 8:53 AM IST
Thomas Piketty would have been spotted copiously taking notes if he was following this week’s World Cup games from the stands in various Qatari stadiums. The French economist, whose work focuses on wealth concentration and distribution and…
November 27, 2022, 8:53 AM IST
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Can SC put an end to this cruel game of ‘spot a seditionist’?
May 1, 2022, 8:51 AM IST
If sedition was an old flame of mine, I would be horrified by the way she is treated these days. Once a proud, glowing figure of anti-colonial, antiauthoritarian resistance and protestation, sedition is now not…
May 1, 2022, 8:51 AM IST
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Smile please! It’s jest not a hate speech
April 3, 2022, 4:00 AM IST
For those who still go on about how we are an unfunny nation, last Friday was a red-letter day. The Delhi high court, for the first time in Indian judiciary, proactively encouraged the country to…
April 3, 2022, 4:00 AM IST
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November 5, 2021, 10:56 PM IST
So the news is that the Ambanis are going to divide their time between beautiful Buckinghamshire and mucolic Mumbai. Although, poor things, they have denied the move, Reliance reliably stating that the family has ‘no…
November 5, 2021, 10:56 PM IST
November 5, 2021, 7:54 PM IST
I am not a hugger. I do understand the rationale behind the Chipko Movement – wrapping oneself around a tree to prevent it from being cut down the same way Arthur Dent laid himself down,…
November 5, 2021, 7:54 PM IST
July 19, 2021, 7:03 PM IST
My mother reads the newspapers quite thoroughly. Solving the daily crossword is non-negotiable. As is reading anything I write in print. But it was the Pegasus snoopwhoop story that made her call me this time….
July 19, 2021, 7:03 PM IST
July 11, 2021, 5:08 PM IST
Twenty-eight years is a long time. Angel Di Maria was 5 years old, Leo Messi 6, Neymar 1, and Harry Kane still 24 days from being born. Since Argentina won their last international championship title…
July 11, 2021, 5:08 PM IST
Chronicle of an ailing 84-yr-old man’s death in custody foretold
July 11, 2021, 5:00 AM IST
Indians take pride in holding records for what they consider to be unusual things. Shridhar Chillal from Maharashtra holds the Guinness World Record for having the longest fingernails on one hand. Ram Singh Chauhan from…
July 11, 2021, 5:00 AM IST
June 8, 2021, 9:39 AM IST
On Monday, I realised that JP Nadda is a telepath. Incredibly, he read my mind! ‘Whenever there is any crisis in the country, our Prime Minister Modi-ji has always led the country from the front,’…
June 8, 2021, 9:39 AM IST
May 23, 2021, 8:01 PM IST
The river, Rio Uruguay, passes through the northern town of Salto and ultimately flows out south into the Rio de la Plata basin, on the coast of which Buenos Aires stands. It took a distance,…
May 23, 2021, 8:01 PM IST
May 19, 2021, 2:52 PM IST
Meanwhile, on Planet CPI(M), a diaeclectic war of words has broken out between its Kerala unit — fresh off the boat after winning the state assembly elections convincingly and historically back-to-back — and the party’s…
May 19, 2021, 2:52 PM IST
May 17, 2021, 9:23 PM IST
In an extraordinary nod to its innate sense of justice, the coronavirus suspended its untargeted attack on Kolkata on Monday. Responding to CBI’s arrest of TMC ministers Firhad Hakim and Subrata Mukherjee, and MLAs and…
May 17, 2021, 9:23 PM IST
May 17, 2021, 11:19 AM IST
There’s something delightfully sinful about goalkeepers scoring goals. It’s like a bank security guard pulling off a robbery – in the bank across the street. Alisson Becker’s goal off a header, homing in a Trent…
May 17, 2021, 11:19 AM IST
May 14, 2021, 7:52 PM IST
If you’ve read any of those 19th century English novels — like those Jane Austens that everyone except I seem to have read — or have watched any of those English crime series — Midsomer…
May 14, 2021, 7:52 PM IST
May 1, 2021, 9:12 PM IST
TRIBUTE Anirban Bora 1.6.1978-1.5.2021 When I learnt of Anirban passing away, I was half through my morning mug of coffee. The mug is special: it has a cartoon Ravan staring wide-eyed – all ten pairs…
May 1, 2021, 9:12 PM IST
Left-wing, right-wing or chicken wing, taste is the real political test
April 4, 2021, 1:33 AM IST
We think of taste when talking about whisky, curtains, music, even the company we keep — or at least enjoy. But somehow no one talks about taste when applied to politics. This isn’t about being…
April 4, 2021, 1:33 AM IST
FROM TOI PRINT EDITION
Bengal elections will be determined not by usual ‘poll issues’ … but by voter fear of not choosing the winning side
April 1, 2021, 3:00 AM IST
Fear – not development, not voting for ‘one’s own’, not a desire for change or status quo, not wanting to root out corruption or keep out communalisation – will decide who wins Bengal on May…
April 1, 2021, 3:00 AM IST
March 16, 2021, 8:23 PM IST
‘Bengal wants its daughter only’ (Bangla nijer meykei chay) is the latest Trinamool Congress (TMC) election jingle being pumped into phones in the state. It’s certainly straight out of the central government’s ‘Vocal for Local’…
March 16, 2021, 8:23 PM IST
March 9, 2021, 2:19 PM IST
Namastay, clean people of India! Hope you haven’t forgot your old chump, Dolan. While America did not want me to make my country Great Again any more, after stepping down gracefully, I was inspired again…
March 9, 2021, 2:19 PM IST
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