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Babus vs DOGE: Learnings from Yes Minister
April 8, 2025, 5:31 AM IST
The central premise of the classic British comedy Yes Minister is a continuous battle of wits between James Hacker, the minister, and Sir Humphrey Appleby, the superbureaucrat who sabotages the minister’s every policy move. Humphrey…
April 8, 2025, 5:31 AM IST
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DeepPique
February 3, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
Why can’t India build AI like China? Our software engineers have other priorities Now that a Chinese startup DeepSeek has produced a large language model that has cut the legs from under the hype factory…
February 3, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
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California driving
January 13, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
Fire behind you, a different hell ahead Growing up in India, LA was the land of adolescent dreams: Pamela Anderson in slow-mo, sun and sand, canyons and hills, beautiful people, and Hollywood, a neverland of…
January 13, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
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Emergency, insured
December 30, 2024, 10:20 AM IST
While growing up in India, I always believed that US’s healthcare system, much like its TV shows and roads, must be superior. After all, if it weren’t, why would Indian politicians travel there for their…
December 30, 2024, 10:20 AM IST
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Emergency, insured
December 30, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
How US healthcare system has a magic trick While growing up in India, I always believed that US’s healthcare system, much like its TV shows and roads, must be superior. After all, if it weren’t,…
December 30, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
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Aussie sweet 16s
December 2, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
Will a social media ban send them to cricket practice? Australia is in crisis. Raygun’s kangaroo dance moves in the breakdance competition at the Olympics are widely acknowledged to have destroyed Australia’s sporting legacy within…
December 2, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
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Imperfect us
November 4, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
Back when photos had no preview & no backup A picture is a stand against time, it says I was here, I existed, and someone cared enough about me to take my picture. Thus went…
November 4, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
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Portrait of a serf
September 16, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
It begins nicely enough, with a great tech product How are empires made in the age of Great Tech? No, not as they once were, through marauding horsemen with gleaming swords, sieges on castles, archers…
September 16, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
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Trick to securing Telegram is to turn on ‘secret chat’
August 30, 2024, 7:24 AM IST
Users need to get savvy about encryption by different communication channels. Big Tech and Big Govt together have too much influence on our lives for us to ignore how our data is being protected The…
August 30, 2024, 7:24 AM IST
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Forget Olympic gold
August 6, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
Indra Nooyi is our Simone Biles. We are also busy cracking UPSC, crossing waterlogged roads Having lived through many Olympics, I am sick and tired of that old chestnut: Why do we do so poorly…
August 6, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
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Attention recession
July 23, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
We now read tweets not books, watch reels not movies What’s going to kill humanity, even before rising oceans and climate change, is our collective inability to concentrate. Tests became ODIs, ODIs became T20s, long-form…
July 23, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
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Life of fans
July 1, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
How World Cup victories get deeply woven into our personal timelines What do World Cup victories mean to us? I don’t mean the players; we all know the answer to that. But what does it…
July 1, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
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Both jock & geek
June 10, 2024, 7:16 AM IST
How Netravalkar stars in the boyhood multiverse What do young boys dream of? If you grew up in the 90s, in my time, you dreamt of being a good student. Wanting parental approval was burnt…
June 10, 2024, 7:16 AM IST
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A switch & glitch: How HR took down an IPL franchise
May 28, 2024, 8:16 AM IST
It is magnificent but it is not war – C’est magnifique mais pas la guerre. Used famously for the Charge of the Light Brigade, for some, this is the perfect summary for the world’s richest…
May 28, 2024, 8:16 AM IST
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Nightmare alley: What the gurus telling you to live your dream don’t tell you
May 13, 2024, 8:36 AM IST
One of the Big Lies propagated by the feel-good self-help-wallahs is that one should always follow one’s dreams. If you love what you do, you will never have to work a day in your life,…
May 13, 2024, 8:36 AM IST
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Their country, their rules
April 1, 2024, 9:37 AM IST
International media likes to pillory India over CAA, in which govt is, as per the narrative, officially codifying discrimination of asylum seekers on the basis of their religion. But looking at what other countries do…
April 1, 2024, 9:37 AM IST
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Progressive? Oh pleez
February 19, 2024, 8:40 AM IST
How come social media lefties are all for rich kisans wanting subsidies? It’s winter in Delhi, and with that comes biting cold, fog, and, yes, yet another farmers’ protest, which means our social media-commentariat has…
February 19, 2024, 8:40 AM IST
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Authorly relations: It’s not enough that you have bought their book
February 6, 2024, 8:28 AM IST
There was a time when not a lot of people wrote books. There were very few publishers, and then they had very high standards, mostly being on a lookout for the next Booker Prize winner….
February 6, 2024, 8:28 AM IST
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Nikki, Nimarata, Nimbra – How whiteness is Trump card
January 25, 2024, 9:51 AM IST
It remains tough for Indian-Americans to climb to the top in US politics. First racism hurts them, then prosperity weakens their minority card. And community’s rich don’t bother to help much Donald Trump has won…
January 25, 2024, 9:51 AM IST
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Vivek/Apu
January 22, 2024, 8:33 AM IST
Right after Vivek Ramaswamy bowed out of the presidential race after the Iowa Caucus, Babylon Bee, a conservative knock-off of Onion, came up with a ‘humour’ piece in which Vivek is shown working in a…
January 22, 2024, 8:33 AM IST
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