Sunday Sentiments
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My initial impression of the first volume of Mani Shankar Aiyar’s autobiography was the author doesn’t believe brevity is the soul of wit. The opening chapters of â...
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I find biographies particularly fascinating. Not only because you get involved in the life of the central character but they’re also full of anecdotes that are fun to...
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It was Diwan Jarmani Dass’s Maharaja that started my fascination with the foibles, peccadillos, pranks, eccentricities and scandals of our erstwhile royals. I was a t...
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The one thing I expect of our politicians – and even more so of heads of government – is a certain modicum of knowledge. They need to know the rights we’re guaran...
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Do we really know our heroes? We place them on pedestals and revere them. We talk about them frequently and eloquently. We even quote from them. But that’s different ...
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Adjectives cannot convey the horror of what’s happened in Manipur. It’s beyond description. Instead, it’s been seared into our conscience like the dreadful Nirbha...
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I’m not well informed about caste and the invidious way it’s infiltrated our system. So it’s fortuitous good fortune that I was sent Manoj Mitta’s ‘Caste Prid...
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I’m going to start this column as I have never begun before. With a statement of intent. I shall strive to be as measured, balanced, objective and fair as I can be. T...
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It’s odd how the mind works. Sometimes stray thoughts can connect with other random ones to recall memories long forgotten. There’s nothing logical about it. It jus...
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Out of affection we called him Guru but, in fact, that is precisely what he was. Not a vishwaguru, as is the fashion these days, but a genuine, dedicated, caring teache...
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