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‘India, UK should embrace their cultural band, baaja, baaraat’
October 9, 2025, 7:26 AM IST
If you’ve ever gone on a family holiday, you know what happens at the airport. Too much baggage, arguments about whose suitcase busted the weight limit, but eventually, there’s always someone cracking a joke to…
October 9, 2025, 7:26 AM IST
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Avoiding monsoon mayhem: Monsoon is a blessing; it needs to be managed well to temper extremes
July 25, 2019, 2:00 AM IST
It has been a truly bizarre June for us Mumbaikars. In one month, our great city has experienced both a shortage of water and floods. How is this even possible? Well, if you get the…
July 25, 2019, 2:00 AM IST
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What should we, as ordinary Indians, do after the dastardly Pulwama terror attack?
February 19, 2019, 2:00 AM IST
There is sorrow, pain and rage across India after the Pakistani terrorist attack in Pulwama, Jammu & Kashmir. I share the rage of my fellow Indians. The question that arises is, what should we, the…
February 19, 2019, 2:00 AM IST
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Seeing the good with the bad: Problems notwithstanding, India has undeniably achieved a lot
August 7, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
The wise among India’s ancients held that life must be approached with a sense of perspective. Of balance. For dharma is in balance. This is most required when we are buffeted by calamities which threaten…
August 7, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
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At the root of all lynchings: Vigilantes don’t expect to be punished, victims don’t expect to get justice
July 10, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
Pehlu Khan, a Muslim, was lynched by Hindu criminals, professing to be cow vigilantes. The incident fills one with grief and anger. Around the same time, Farook, a Muslim atheist in Coimbatore, was lynched by…
July 10, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
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The divided and the ruled: Divide-and-Rule laws continue to create strife within India. Repeal them
May 2, 2016, 2:00 AM IST
The Preamble of our Constitution succinctly lays down its guiding purpose, one of them being: equality of status and of opportunity. No society is (or has ever been) truly equal; it is an ever-elusive aspiration….
May 2, 2016, 2:00 AM IST
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King of the arts
March 24, 2016, 4:56 AM IST
Wajid Ali Shah, long defamed as a decadent cross-dresser, was a great son of India British Raj has no doubt bequeathed a few assets – both tangible and intangible – not least notably the language…
March 24, 2016, 4:56 AM IST
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The past of caste: Ancient India did not sanctify it, caste discrimination is more recent than we think
February 2, 2016, 2:17 AM IST
The tragic death of Rohith Vemula has again brought to the forefront of public imagination the painful reality of caste discrimination in Indian society. Notwithstanding the noise generated by relentless pursuit of politics, evidence clearly…
February 2, 2016, 2:17 AM IST
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Are you an Aryan invader? Colonial views on fair-skinned Aryans vs dark-skinned Dravidians have wide political currency today
December 17, 2015, 1:47 AM IST
A south Indian politician recently accused a north Indian colleague of being an Aryan invader. I was tempted to dismiss it, at first, as another case of the usual politicking. Politicians, after all, will do…
December 17, 2015, 1:47 AM IST
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Eyes Left. Eyes Right. Debate
November 21, 2015, 12:07 AM IST
Nobody can know the Absolute Truth, we need to factor in observer bias While travelling in the US over a seven-week period in 2014, i was amazed by the animosity in their public debates. The…
November 21, 2015, 12:07 AM IST
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