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Osaka, O sake
April 17, 2025, 12:12 PM IST
There comes a time in every Indian’s life when they get tired of the unending traffic jams, the noise, the dust and feel like getting away from it all. And indeed, they do but only…
April 17, 2025, 12:12 PM IST
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Behind the curtains: Choli ke peeche capitalism hai
April 15, 2025, 5:17 PM IST
In the 1993 classic Khal Nayak, many Indian males of a particular vintage had their first ontological brush with salubriousness when Madhuri Dixit asked: “Choli ke peeche kya hai?” One was too young in 1993 to appreciate that…
April 15, 2025, 5:17 PM IST
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Wide Ankle
April 15, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
Where all a doctor travels with your strain Thousands of doctors work long and hugely demanding hours and they are truly honoured. But also, they are now being challenged by a new tribe of medics…
April 15, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
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Aurangzeb test
April 4, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
Thanks to the UP chief minister, we now have a simple and infallible method of identifying potential traitors The problem with traitors – apart from the fact that they are traitors – is that only…
April 4, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
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I smart therefore I am
April 1, 2025, 1:17 PM IST
Smartness has always been a holy grail for most people. However, smartness is difficult to quantify. I mean all IQ tests are kind of discriminatory, they always work in favour of smart people so HR…
April 1, 2025, 1:17 PM IST
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100-day sarkar
March 27, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
State and central Report card Maha CM Devendra Fadnavis set an ambitious target for the next 100 days of his govt, with catchy stuff like education minister visiting 100 schools, health mantri 100 hospitals, etc….
March 27, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
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Smokescreen
March 24, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
Price caps fetch you so much more than they say This summer, get ready for an epic action and drama feature that will keep you on the edge of your seats – or maybe out…
March 24, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
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Games people play
March 21, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
The gilli-danda of my childhood has come a long, long way since then My childhood was a self-inventive enterprise. It had to be, because no one had yet invented video games, or smartphones to play…
March 21, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
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Yodelling Kishore da
March 17, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
Fictional minutes of an honour-able meeting Salim didn’t get Anarkali in reel life. Kishore Kumar got her in real. And, in the 1958 hit Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi, the ‘motor mechanic’ even broke into her…
March 17, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
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The ‘Maa’ paas-word
March 13, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
It worked for so many greats. Ask Mr Birla They have all the Deewar-appointed swag, but like Shashi Kapoor’s character these guys put mater above material goods. Kumara Mangalam Birla didn’t quote the now-iconic ‘Mere…
March 13, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
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Desi abroad
March 11, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
Why Indians go from First World to Third World The Indian abroad is a strange phenomenon. Sallying forth with a thaila full of thepla and a string of desi degrees, stale and useless, respectively, upon…
March 11, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
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Catch me if you can
March 10, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
Playing the party game with your mental rolodex So we are at this swank party and enjoying the ambience when a guy thumps me on the back and says, my goodness it is you, fancy…
March 10, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
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The other woman
March 6, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
Painting ‘half the sky’ their way. No show-sha Step back, men. It’s raining women, or will be this IWD weekend. There’ll be the usual platitudes – and flatitudes. All I ask for is latitude to…
March 6, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
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The Elon Ranger
March 5, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
Trump’s hatchet man who fires from the hip is like a character from a Western comic book Jottings from the White House diary: Boy, have I had one helluva week. Did that video that’s gone…
March 5, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
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Immoral of the story
February 28, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
Ranveer Allahbadia’s comment has sent waves of outrage across the country and beyond Two Twitterati, collectively known as Twits, discussing Ranveer Allahbadia. 1st Twit: The fellow should be forever banned, not only from YouTube but…
February 28, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
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Project management for dummies
February 25, 2025, 9:57 PM IST
If you study modern business history, you will realise companies have been grappling with the issue of how to add value. CEOs have been known to toss and turn over this in interviews making it…
February 25, 2025, 9:57 PM IST
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Screen test
February 25, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
On keeping calm through a digital arrest It started with an innocuous phone call and in no time I was face-to-face with a fearsome man on my laptop screen. “You are under digital arrest,” he…
February 25, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
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AId-de-camp
February 20, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
Long before Artificial Intelligence, diverse devices have done our thinking for us In 1637 a Frenchman penned three words which would prompt future generations to proclaim him to be the Father of Modern Western Philosophy….
February 20, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
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Say something
February 18, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
Justin Timberlake implores. So does Siri You are always being heard. Not by your friend, or a neighbour. Nor your favourite fruitwalla, paperwalla, HR, colleagues, boss, pet, wife (even on a Sunday) or the love…
February 18, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
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Shove is in the air
February 13, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
Which love songs will be adapted this V-day Arvind Kejriwal kept up his bravado after past defeats, borrowing from a defiant Madhubala to declare ‘Jab haar diya toh darna kya?’ But ever since Delhi bellowed,…
February 13, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
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