Voting rites: As Bengal votes, it evokes memories of other elections of other sorts in what was once Calcutta
As polling continues apace in Bengal, the national media are abuzz with headlines about the clash of the two big
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Juggle-Bandhi blog
Fax about vax: Scared of being inoculated? Don’t be – there’s nothing to fear but your fear itself
The trouble with Covid-19 is that, as fearful as it is, it’s not fearful enough and many are not as
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Seeing democracy as domain of spirit
The other day in conversation with a journalist from Germany I was introduced to a new phrase, ‘spiritual democracy’. “What
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Apna apartheid: The increasingly separatist black-and-white world of Indian politics and the social divide we’ve created
India very rightly, and very righteously, condemned the apartheid regime which obtained in South Africa till the early 1990s and
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Jeanetic code: Uttarakhand CM Tirath Singh Rawat literally makes history by announcing an amazing discovery
Two unemployed Class 10-failed school dropouts, Altoo and Faltoo, talking about Uttarakhand CM Tirath Singh Rawat’s history-making pronouncement on India’s
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Sundaes forever: There seem to be no end of the new and different flavours that ice cream keeps coming in
Even as the world anxiously awaits vaccination against the coronavirus, some unsung genius somewhere has made an inventive breakthrough by
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Bureau-crazy: India’s most productive sector is the one which generates an endless supply of red tape
In defiance of science which has yet to devise a perpetual motion machine India’s bureaucracy, a legacy inherited from British
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Dilli as Singapore-on-the-Yamuna
The saying ‘Dilli door ast’, Delhi is distant, is widely attributed to the Sufi sage, Hazrat Nizamuddin. Today, the Capital
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Vax populi: The latest fad on social media is that of people being photographed getting their Covid shots
Thanks to India’s anti-Covid vaccination drive – among the largest in the world – the word snapshot has gained an
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Passport test: Your travel document is an indication of where your country is in the international pecking order
India scores very high in a number of tests. It’s the world’s most populous, and some say most vibrant, democracy.
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