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Sun, 09 Jan 2011

Amit Varma
Viewfinder

It's Only Words  

While being upset at abuse or mockery is understandable, what is bizarre is that we expect the legal system, like a school teacher in a ...

No, We Can't  

Barack Obama's visit to India has made him such a huge celebrity here that it's a wonder he hasn't yet been asked to appear on Bigg ...

Deepak Shenoy
Atlas Invested

Tips about the Tipsters  

With a market as strong as this, there is no surprise that people are looking out for tips in the stock market, and "advisory" services ...

The Invisible Benefits of Starting Up  

Starting your own business seems to be the fashionable thing to do nowadays, what with so many early stage funds, incubation companies ...

Ashok Malik
Corner Plot

The Challenges of an Emerged India  

President Barack Obama's visit to India and his praise of it as a "global power" that was no more "emerging" but has "emerged" has got ...

Maharashtra's Audacious Chief Ministers  

Should he lose his job as Maharashtra chief minister courtesy the Adarsh Housing Society scandal, Ashok Chavan could pass into history ...

Girish Shahane
Anything That Moves

Diplomacy  

The visit of Barack Obama to India began with commentators generally treating him with suspicion. Obama appeared to be damaged goods ...

Armies and the man  

The construction of the Adarsh Cooperative Housing Society, a 31-floor structure overlooking sensitive military installations in ...

Aadisht Khanna
Stereotypist

Animal Instincts  

I was in Delhi for Diwali and was walking to the market to buy a strip of Rosuvastatin, when I saw a large crowd of people marching ...

Housework and its miscontents  

Sure, you get to set your own hours, you get to work on what you love instead of what you’re told to do, and you get to become ...

Sanjay Sipahimalani
Dead Tree Diaries

Books on Holiday  

Before departing for a brief trip out of the city last week, I faced the usual, last-minute dilemma. What books should I choose to ...

Confessions of a Book Pirate  

Psst. Sar! You are wanting book to read? A fine selection here, Sar. Look! And for you, all at great discounts. Very cheap. Forget ...

Nitin Pai
Pax Indica

Obama and the "K" word  

Two years ago, in the final stage of his presidential campaign, in an interview to TIME magazine's Joe Klein, candidate Barack Obama ...

The missing ingredient in India's soft power  

The idea of secularism is meaningless in the amoral world of international relations. What is an excellent principle to order our ...

Mohit Satyanand
Minority of One

The Green Face of the Congress Party  

After Jairam Ramesh showed a red light to the Vedanta mines in Orissa, the Congress party and its Crown Prince unfurled a huge green ...

The Rabbit Garden  

When you have a large stash to hide, it pays to cultivate a rabbit garden. A stratagem well known to successful gardeners, it ...

Anand Ramachandran
Mirth Vader

In celebration of fancy-dress  

The recent enthusiasm shown by my fellow Indians in celebrating Halloween by wearing outlandish and terrifying costumes, as well as ...

Confessions of a Tam-Brahm freelancer  

I normally don't have any regrets about not having pursued a conventional, respectable profession. You know - like working in a bank, ...

Jai Arjun Singh
Persistence of Vision

The musical conquests of Goopy and Bagha  

I'm watching Satyajit Ray's fantasy-adventure classic Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne, about two simpletons - the singer Goopy and the drummer ...

Discreet charms of Luis Bunuel  

Luis Bunuel 1962 film 'The Exterminating Angel' is about a group of upper-middle class people in a large mansion, finishing dinner and ...

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