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The Chetan Bhagat Conundrum
Yesterday, India’s uncrowned king of bubblegum literature, Chetan Bhagat, decided to celebrate Father’s Day by recycling an old locker room…
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Wear Sunscreen – And Feel Happy, Sad, Alive!
“Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young” This is the title of an original essay written by Mary Schmich…
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30 More Things That Will Make You Feel Old – India Edition.
You are older than you think! Making you think many things happened “recently” is a trick played by your sub-conscious…
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Levels of Corruption
There seems to be a serious misunderstanding on what “corruption” means in India. It seems that we think only politicians…
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A Brief History of Cricket in India
The days were harsh, hot and dusty and the nights cold and windy. The vast swathes of Middle Earth, the land…
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Why Do Indians Want to Return to Libya?
Libya has been witnessing the most violent among the protests that have been rocking the Middle East. After 40 years…
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Jean Jose Palackal – A Tribute
My dear Jean, Paalu, it has been two years since that fateful day. And somehow, somewhere, I, we have still…
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AeroIndia 2011 – Spectacle Inside, Chaos Outside
The blazing sun. The clear blue sky. Fighter jets screaming through the air. Roar of afterburners hitting you like a hammer on…
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An Indian Take on The Social Network Part 2 – Bollywoodization
Bollywood these days seems to be delivering more bombs than US drones manage to drop on Afghanistan. (The suits who…
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Will Someone Please Pick the Phone?
When it comes to customer service, it looks like telecom companies in India are on a race to outdo each other…
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An Indian take on The Social Network, Part 1 – Chehrakitaab?
This is not a review for the movie ‘The Social Network’. Enough accolades and adjectives have been doled out for the Movie,…
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Nothing Is What It Seems!
“Nothing is what it seems!” – Walter Burke (Al Pacino), The Recruit In the mediocre-at-best spook movie ‘The Recruit’, CIA chief trainer…
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