Jyoti Basu was not a tall man but you hardly noticed that when he walked into a room. There was, instead, a spring in his step that caught your eye. Even though he did not smile a lot his manner...
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Inevitably, death makes you remember the past. Memories, long forgotten, come tumbling back with a clarity that can be surprising. They also return with fresh meaning. It’s as if recolle...
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“What do you make of the way the media is covering the Ruchika Gehrotra story?” It sounded like an innocent, even an innocuous, question but knowing Pertie I suspected there was more...
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If it was a good Christmas you’re probably still recovering from it. The sad truth, to be brutally honest, is that the older you grow the longer it seems to take. But in the end you know y...
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The new year is a favourite time for resolutions although, of course, most of them don’t survive very long. They’re made with enthusiasm only to be ditched surreptitiously and then l...
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If, like me, you’re fascinated by the foibles of our maharajas than I suggest you dig deep into your pocket this Christmas and buy one of the most delightful coffee-table books on this exo...
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I sometimes wonder how balanced and judicious we are. More often than not, we swing to extremes, ignoring the valuable territory that lies in between. I fear that much of the parliamentary and p...
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Is English the richest of all languages? Not being fluent in any other, I have no way of answering that question authoritatively. But, that said and done, I suspect the answer could be yes. So, ...
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Would you agree that Pratibha Patil looked rather fetching in a G-suit? The picture of her waving from the cockpit of a Sukhoi, a radiant smile on her face, could transform the image of Indian w...
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Do you ever feel the Indian police speak too much? Does it rankle or even rile you that whenever they think they have the suspect of a crime in hand, senior police officers start holding press c...
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