An on-the-spot report from Chennai Kolkata: You don’t have to have read the newspapers. You don’t have to have seen the television channels. But the moment you step out of the Dum Dum airport here, you can feel it in the wispy wintry air. You can sense it at every crooked nook and crowded corner. It is attendant over every… Read more →
Deepavali, over the years, has grown to be an occasion that unites the length and breadth of this unique country in a celebration that is a mix of tradition, as represented by dresses, sweets and crackers, and modernity, as represented by shopping for handy goods that many of us have no need for. This year the whole shopping angle seems… Read more →
If you live in Chennai, and are attending a party or social do in another city, one of the things you must avoid — no, don’t worry, not alcohol — is to tell (whoever you are talking to) that you are from Chennai because within moments the subject of weather will be broached and soon enough the entire hall will… Read more →
This is a small crime story involving youngsters. So, to protect their identities, we didn’t ask for their names. Recently, three guys, all engineering college students, were caught when they were about to steal petrol from a vehicle in our apartment complex. The trio, who had sneaked into our complex, otherwise looked decent, and more importantly docile, which kind of… Read more →
BCCI wants 3rd and 4th days of Tests played on 1st and 2nd days on SA tour Lahore: In this season of retirements, stealing the thunder form the India legend Sachin Tendulkar, Pakistan swashbuckler Shahid Afridi today announced his retirement from retirements. The ‘Boom Boom’ Pathan, who holds the world record on retirements in all the three formats of the… Read more →
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