Ah, the “desecration” of the statue of Meenatai Thackeray. The hurt feelings of Shiv Sainiks. The violence on the streets. The threat to stall Assembly proceedings. And the promise of a probe …
Sharon, left, general manager products and service for Personal Broadband Australia, and Sonja Bernhardt, an IT&T service centre manager, have appeared in a provocative calendar to try and shake off …
Tim Harford, the author of The Undercover Economist, has a most depressing line in a recent column. He says: “We can try to earn money by doing something useful, or we …
Slate magazine has a very cute story, very cutely headlined “The Forune Cookie 500”, on how Chinese proverbs are tripping off the tongues of everybody across the world, especially business …
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: Many years back, proabably in the mid-1950s, during an England (MCC) vs Pakistan series in Pakistan, a strange incident happened. Fed up by the partisan umpiring, the …
Sunil Gavaskar hears that a 20th Century Fox film titled Gavaskar is running to packed houses in Australia. Delighted, Sunny charters a plane and rushes Down Under to see this tribute …
“There are two kinds of people who find it difficult to deal with the likes of me. The fundamentalists in Pakistan and the Sangh Parivar in India… Perhaps, they (Pakistani …
An opinion poll conducted by the Bombay newspaper DNA says two out of every respondents (sample size: 500) believe Prime Minister Manmohan Singh‘s authority has been eroded by recent events and that …
SUNAAD RAGHURAM writes: A long lost friend came calling the other day. “This is a ghost from your past,” he smiled as I opened my apartment’s door. We sized each …