By and large we are not a witty people. We tell jokes and play pranks but very few of us – and only very occasionally – are subtle or sophisticated. Our eloquence is of the long-winded variet...
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The best way to see the Taj Mahal is to sit and contemplate it.  Through the windows of the Amarvilas, a stunning hotel if ever there was one, you can view it surrounded by a forest of green.  ...
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At first I did not notice him. I was standing outside PVR Anupam waiting for friends when he walked up. He looked like any other college student seeking cinema tickets. When he began speaking I ...
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“Things never change, do they?” Mummy claimed as she peered over the top of her newspaper, her glasses sitting precariously on the tip of her nose. It was her first morning back after seven we...
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It’s reassuring when people don’t change. They may grow up, get fat or become old but when the core of their personality stays the same you still feel you know them. That’s how I felt when ...
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When a man’s reputation precedes him you often end up with a misleading idea of what he must be like. That’s what happened to me with R.K. Laxman. I’ve spent decades admiring his cartoons a...
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t’s not that we’re bad drivers – there must be several nations who can boast of worse – but we have no traffic sense and choose to be deliberately inconsiderate. The chaos in our cities is...
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Have you been in one of those situations where the conversation takes a turn of its own? It usually starts with an innocent enquiry, you reply with an equally considerate answer and then suddenly,...
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Politicians rarely mean what they do or do what they say. I suppose that’s a commonplace. But the recent opening of the print media to a limited measure of foreign investment takes the biscuit....
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“What’s so terrible about this article in Time magazine?” asked the lady sitting next to me on the British Airways flight. We were half way to London and travelling in silence. She had buri...
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