An even newer India?
It was a truly remarkable win. It was the kind of victory that strikes awe into the hearts of rivals and makes poets out of prose writers. The kind that every takes every cliché in...
View ArticleBuilding memories?
Should an iconic structure be replaced if it no longer serves the purpose it once did? In recent months, there has been much discussion around such issues arising out of the proposed renovation (or...
View ArticleThe victory of the peripheral?
The government’s handling of the farmers agitation raises many questions. On the face of it, it seems to be committing one blunder after another. The latest is its official response to a pop star’s...
View ArticleBetween Silence & Outrage?
Sachin Tendulkar is in the news for the wrong reasons. His tweet calling for, among other things ‘Indians know India and should decide for India” has been welcomed by one section of people and harshly...
View ArticleThe home pitch advantage & other vagaries of Test cricket
How much can a home team tailor pitches to its advantage? Is it at all fair when the scales are made uneven to the extent to which a fair contest is no longer possible? It...
View ArticleMaking the unfamiliar familiar
How do we grasp new ideas? How do we bring into the realm of understanding what is hitherto unknown? The Internet, for instance is a completely new kind of experience of us. Nothing in the...
View ArticleSunny days forever?
There is something about Sunil Gavaskar that makes him a permanent presence in our lives. He burst onto the international scene 50 years ago and has never stopped being a part of our lives ever...
View ArticleThe overdocumented self?
After a long time, one had the experience of going to someone’s office and one had to go through a very modern ritual. It involves getting photographed, sharing one’s mobile phone number, receiving an...
View ArticleRoyalty Blues?
Last week we were witness to yet another episode of the ongoing saga of the British royal family. The estranged royal couple spoke to the fount of American compassion, Oprah Winfrey and as expected the...
View ArticleThe vaccine: Why more needs to be done
For one full year, the world was praying for an effective vaccine to make an appearance. And incredibly, science delivered not just one, but several excellent options. It would be natural to expect...
View ArticleThe modern beard decoded
To be a man in today’s team, one needs to wear a beard. Or so it would seem going by the thorny visage of so many in all walks of life. From Narendra Modi to...
View ArticleVaccine- No Easy Answers?
In a space of a few weeks we have gone from a feeling of complacent well-being to full-blown panic. Covid is back with a speed and scale that looks ominous. The focus is now on...
View ArticleInside the Covid Cauldron
What a dark, dismal time. There is a shroud of fear enveloping the country, as we huddle in our homes beaten into submission by a virus that we cannot seem to control or even comprehend....
View ArticleThe trouble with Dr Google?
The internet has been an invaluable tool during the times of the pandemic. Marooned in our little socially-distanced islands, we have retained contact with the outside world through digital means. At...
View ArticleThe trauma within
Recovering from Covid for those affected in the second wave has not been easy. Apart from the unfortunate many who have either died or suffered terribly before eventually emerging from the illness, the...
View ArticleThe Meaning of PowerPoint
Can there be a nightmare worse than waking up to find oneself listening to slide 62 of a 300-slide presentation? As anyone who works anywhere knows, this is a nightmare that comes true with depressing...
View ArticleThe revenge of the normal
The word normal gets a really rap these days. Normal is boring. Normal is ordinary, it is dull and uninteresting. It lacks imagination. Normal is a state of inconspicuousness. Of fitting in. Of not...
View ArticlePeddling influence for a living?
Perhaps the fastest growing career option, certainly insofar as aspiration goes, would have to be that of an influencer. The influencer is not merely a label that those who manage a reasonable number...
View ArticleRonaldo and a bottle: Celebrities can be accused of hypocrisy but big brands...
The controversy over Cristiano Ronaldo’s removal of the Coke bottle at a press conference and replacing it with water can at one level, be seen as yet another storm in a social media teacup that...
View ArticleLuck by chance?
The number of Covid cases around us has declined sharply, but the bad news hasn’t. Everyday still brings news of someone known’s passing, and the aching sadness of our times continues. What is...
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