India-Australia Chennai Test preview Chennai: Ahead of the much-anticipated marquee series between India and Australia for the Airtel Gavaskar-Border Trophy (which makes it seem that Airtel is sponsoring Gavaskar and Border) that gets ready to roll on from here tomorrow, all roads seem to lead to the monumental M A Chidambaram stadium. On closer look, it, however, emerges that it is… Read more →
I think we have reached the stage where we have to seriously think about declaring cooking as a major epidemic. I mean even the kind of guys who till the other day were wont to look for a chutney-sambhar packet in the pizza delivery carton, are these days talking with authoritative gusto about risotto recipes. The other evening I overheard… Read more →
Many of us, especially in these parts, began to understand love and romance through the prism of movies. This is a bit like learning paragliding through correspondence course. Essentially what it means is, many of us have a great idea of romance in theory, but in reality most are unimaginative. This is a tragedy, which is exactly the word that… Read more →
This week we will discuss the most useless thing ever conceived by humankind after 24-hours news channels: Insurance. Most of you who read the report about investors having lost around Rs.1.5 trillion due to insurance mis-selling would have doubtless smacked your forehead with your palm and muttered to yourself, ‘My god, why don’t they stop this scam?’ I concur wholeheartedly… Read more →
This week the Indian Readership Survey was out, and two of the key findings were: 1) Whichever newspaper you were reading it on had not only increased its readership base but was also growing 2) There is no hope for print medium. No, that is not a joke. Newspapers can legitimately claim that their readership is increasing even in the… Read more →
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