(This is the second installment of the two-part year-end review. The first part appeared last week) April In the last throw of dice to salvage something out of the economy, the Congress-led UPA government plans curtailing of needless expenditure and calls for a five-year moratorium on general elections. Finance Minister P Chidambaram sets a personal example by not contesting the… Read more →
As 2014 slips into the ever-filling but ever-lengthening abyss of history, the one defining word to sum up the entire year would be: Happiness. Happy that it is ending. Happy that didn’t get any worse than it did. It was the year that Narendra Modi stormed to power at the Centre based on the sterling qualification that he was not… Read more →
When I first came across the news that Tarun Tejpal, who allegedly molested a young colleague of his, had been invited as a panelist to the Times Litfest, I, like any normal thinking person, was aghast. I mean how can they put Times and Literary in the same sentence and expect us not to feel outraged. The Old Lady of… Read more →
A lot of readers have sent questions on the functioning of banks and sought some clarifications because this column has rightly earned a name for itself in handling important issues of the day (Friday) with the much-needed clarity to trivialize them. Over to your queries: Recently banks have decided to put a ‘cap’ on the number of withdrawals from ATMs… Read more →
Last Saturday night, shortly after the news had broken out that a tiger had escaped from its enclosure in Vandalur zoo, I checked in to my twitter feed, and the social media platform, sustained as it is by the wisdom of many, manfully rose to the occasion with an emergency supply of jokes and puns. Someone said (to the effect)… Read more →
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