It was a rare holiday in the middle of the week. The morning was pleasant and sunny. A stray cool breeze was drifting in from the balcony. The house was sweetly suffused with the interminglement of crisp aroma from the kitchen and scented fragrance from the puja room. And then, out of nowhere, pappapenpappapen pappapenpappapen … the doleful strains of… Read more →
DMK quits UPA, but to stay in Ministry New Delhi/Kolkata/Chennai: On a day of constantly changing events, the Congress, in what is being seen as a canny political master stroke, decided to walk out of the UPA government at the Centre in a symbolic show of solidarity with the Trinamool Congress (TMC), which too has announced its plans to sever… Read more →
Every leap year, a contest of intriguing intensity and rivetting rivalry unfolds which the world watches with interest and involvement. It’s a quadrennial quest for prestige and power. I know what many of you are already thinking: ‘But dude, the Olympics ended last month itself. Why are you flogging it now?’ And to you thinking in this vein, my response… Read more →
New Delhi: Things are going from bad to worse as far as the Indian media is concerned. Yes, for the first time ever in the history of Indian journalism — something that did not happen even when the Britishers were ruling the country — a newspaper company has been compelled to do the unthinkable: It has been forced to put… Read more →
As the Teacher’s Day passed this week, I got down to think deeply about teaching, a profession so noble and respectful that they have gone ahead and named a whiskey after it. When I first came to know that there was a whiskey named Teacher’s, my immediate reaction, as a sincere professional who is in a field that is also… Read more →
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