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Bhooth-proof elections
November 24, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
Thanks to SIR, bhooth-capturing may become a thing of the past If indeed the 65L names deleted from the records by the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) were of bona fide living residents of Bihar whom…
November 24, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
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De-cap-itated
October 7, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
Flood of confusion after EU’s new rule on water bottles Germany checking the Schengen visas of all those travelling to that country even from within Europe is not the alarming thing to happen on the…
October 7, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
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Brits don’t have eggs… let them eat quiche: UK royal jodi Charles and Camilla’s choice of a coronation dish requires a product currently out-of-reach of most ordinary British. That’s very Marie Antoinette
April 20, 2023, 8:37 AM IST
If the late Queen Elizabeth’s Coronation Chicken was the last gasp of Empire – the hint of curry powder in its mayonnaise sauce harked back to her grandfather George V’s Jubilee Chicken, created at the…
April 20, 2023, 8:37 AM IST
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Can one ‘thug’ the audience?
November 16, 2018, 11:06 PM IST
Those who have at best a foggy idea of Indian history may even swallow the storyline of the Aamir-Amitabh starrer Thugs of Hindostan that is supposedly “based” on a mid-19th century novel by a British…
November 16, 2018, 11:06 PM IST
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Bollywood holds silk stalkings sway over brides of India
November 9, 2018, 10:51 PM IST
Once the bridal pair showcased the regional diversity they came from, now the look is designer rather than regional wear
November 9, 2018, 10:51 PM IST
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The Great Indian Festival
September 22, 2018, 8:32 AM IST
Last week, a friend’s daughter invited me to Ganpati Puja at her house. I was a bit surprised at first. After all, Punjabis do not generally observe Ganesh Chaturthi; it is identified with Mumbai and…
September 22, 2018, 8:32 AM IST
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Oh Meghan
August 6, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
Royal biographer Andrew Morton calls Wallis Simpson – the American divorcee who married a British prince – ‘the woman who changed the monarchy’ in his newest book Wallis in Love, published earlier this year. He…
August 6, 2018, 2:00 AM IST
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Sparkle of Brand Markle: Meghan to become an indirect revenue stream for fashion brands
May 19, 2018, 9:20 AM IST
The British are masters of pomp and pageantry, especially when it comes to their Royal Family. The former Empire has shrunk to a few islands and ceremonial roles in some nations, but the Windsors garner…
May 19, 2018, 9:20 AM IST
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India’s great tea legacy needs maitres de chai
March 31, 2017, 11:22 PM IST
A visit to any vineyard is not complete without a darshan of a personage called the maître de chai. He or she is the cellar master, repository of all the accumulated generations of knowledge about…
March 31, 2017, 11:22 PM IST
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India needs to get its culinary act together in the soft power game
March 25, 2017, 12:36 AM IST
The dish set before me was deceptively simple: black cod with carrots. Chef Mario Paecke of the Michelin-starred Luce D’Oro at Schloss Elmau in Bavaria doesn’t waste words either as it is listed as just…
March 25, 2017, 12:36 AM IST
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Could the food habit debate be based on geography & climate rather than culture & community?
February 25, 2017, 12:41 AM IST
The debate about the benefits of vegetarianism versus meat-eating (non-vegetarian being a peculiarly Indian term as it takes the former rather than the latter as the norm!) will never be conclusively settled. It’s also perhaps,…
February 25, 2017, 12:41 AM IST
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Idealism is the best medicine
December 31, 2016, 1:39 AM IST
For a whole week, in the bed next to my brother’s in the critical care unit of a New Delhi heart hospital a man clung on to life. He had walked into the hospital feeling…
December 31, 2016, 1:39 AM IST
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Hybrid recipes: Are they violating the concept of nations?
October 15, 2016, 1:46 AM IST
My mother’s amazing Spaghetti Bolognese is the result of circumstance. She learnt the recipe while in the US from her home help who claimed to be, well, Italian. She was probably an east European who…
October 15, 2016, 1:46 AM IST
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Why not an Indian Nobel or Magsaysay Award?
August 20, 2016, 6:44 AM IST
How many people know about the Gandhi Peace Prize, arguably the most “lucrative” among the clutch of official honours conferred by the Government of India? This international prize is open to all, and carries a…
August 20, 2016, 6:44 AM IST
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A Dear mistake: Smriti Irani may not be the only one to be wary of the D-word
June 18, 2016, 7:32 AM IST
A young man’s non sequitur this week at a visa office in New Delhi demonstrates why the union minister for human resources development may just find some cyber supporters for her Twitter outburst against being…
June 18, 2016, 7:32 AM IST
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A million little tragedies happen in hospitals everyday but there’s no remedy
May 7, 2016, 2:32 AM IST
At 5 am there was a strange hum emanating from somewhere. At first light not much could be seen outside the dust-stained window. An hour later, however, the hum suddenly became quite a din, interspersed…
May 7, 2016, 2:32 AM IST
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It’s time for Indian cuisine to take centre stage in soft diplomacy
April 30, 2016, 4:45 AM IST
At the very private lunch that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had for the visiting Duke and Duchess of Cambridge earlier this month, the cuisine had an “Anglo Indian touch”. This deviation from the tried and…
April 30, 2016, 4:45 AM IST
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For Prince William and Kate Middleton this is a homecoming
April 9, 2016, 6:03 AM IST
The couple’s first visit to India will be interpreted by royal watchers as a nod to Prince William’s late mother Princess Diana as well as his stepmother Camilla Apart from speculation about whether Prince William…
April 9, 2016, 6:03 AM IST
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The orthodoxy of unfamiliarity
March 12, 2016, 5:17 AM IST
Last week a close friend passed away suddenly. Like many others of his milieu, both the children were settled abroad, so his wife had to make all the arrangements with the help of extended family…
March 12, 2016, 5:17 AM IST
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True empathy, the elusive virtue
February 6, 2016, 2:53 AM IST
Whenever we praise a person, we point out his or her brilliance – most often in a professional sense, as it’s a difficult virtue to assess in the personal sphere. But should a life be…
February 6, 2016, 2:53 AM IST
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