How to use words like ‘fiduciary receipts’, ‘fiscal discipline’ even without knowing what the heck they are Chennai, Feb 1: By the time you read this, the Finance Minister may have finished presenting his Budget, and already the experts, with their freshly-trimmed French beards and thick-set glasses aglint with their erudition, would have been out of their attics and opinionating… Read more →
“What is happening to Chennai da,” a friend from another city asked me over phone last Monday night. It was essentially a rhetorical question, no doubt triggered by the series of unfortunate happenings that the city has been witness to recently. In December 2015, it was the floods, due to which people were able to put paper boats in running… Read more →
We have a Breaking News coming in: The ‘Breaking News’ industry is in a huge crisis. But worry not. This crisis is nothing new. The thing is media business, especially the newspaper one, is always in a state of trouble. If the media industry were a geographical location, then it is somewhere between Israel and Palestine: There is never a… Read more →
A fully-made-up first-hand report from Washington Washington, Jan 18: Ahead of the formal inauguration of Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States, the biggest talking point here is about who all have chosen to give the event a miss. And joining the list of people who have decided to avoid the function is the man of the… Read more →
With reports about some farmers committing suicide due to crop failure, and the State also having been officially declared drought-hit by the government, the main question that Tamil Nadu is agitated over ahead of the farmers’ festival Pongal is: Will Jallikattu be allowed or not? As a cerebral State, we know our priorities. But there is a lot of confusion… Read more →
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