Do you remember the days when a bottle of coke would cost four annas? That’s twenty five paise in today’s money. Even at the time this was not an insignificant sum....
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After the National Democratic Alliance’s unbelievable victory in Bihar and the Mahagathbandhan’s shattering defeat, there are two questions that stare us in the fac...
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Is the BBC a corporation in crisis? Or is it being held up to higher standards than the rest of the media? The answer to both questions seems to be yes. The tragic part...
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If you’re too young to have read David Reuben’s 1969 best-seller ‘Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex but Were Afraid to Ask’ and you haven’t got a...
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We don’t really have an autumn in Delhi. Our summer merges into winter with only a brief transition heralded by the passage of Diwali. This means Keats’s Ode to Aut...
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We don’t normally think of foreign secretaries as authors of detective fiction. But the day may not be far when Krishnan Srinivasan will be better known as the creato...
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I was asked an interesting question last week: are Indians racist? It was prompted by a report in the Times of India which reads: “A 27-year-old flight attendant from...
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M. F. Husain is undoubtedly India’s best known and perhaps most highly regarded modern artist.  As this newspaper put it last week, he is “arguably the most invent...
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Did you know Arundhati Roy has a first name which she’s dropped? She writes in her new book that when she was 18 “I dropped my first name, Susanna. Starting then, I...
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Is it no longer acceptable for an honest upstanding Indian to feel at home in Pakistan? After all, tens of millions of us were born in provinces that today comprise Pak...
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