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The buck stops here, here, here, here—and there
ASHWINI A. writes from Bangalore: Since the buck goes all the way to the top, those at the top cannot wash their hands off of what happens all the way …
A bird in hand is better than two in the Bush
Mukul Kesavan in The Telegraph, Calcutta: “Indians don’t think much of Ricky Ponting for several reasons. His first tour was dogged by rumours of bad behaviour, his second tour was …
Stock brokers never wear bull bottom pants
Brokers at the Bombay Stock Exchange are clamouring for vaastu experts to be brought in to change the direction of the bronze bull statue that has been erected at the …
Bunt bird who soared from Manipal to Missouri
She was born without hands and legs. She was just a day old when she was relinquished to a hospital in Manipal by her poor parents, Kalavathi and Shankar Shetty. …
‘Mahatmaji fell backwards, uttering Raam-Raam’
G.N. MOHAN forwards an image of the original First Information Report on the assassination of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi this day, 60 years ago, as published by India’s first woman IPS …
Heat, dust, haze, noise, fireworks & damp squibs
MATHIHALLI MADAN MOHAN writes from Hubli: Breathless chatter and cacophony have become the leit motifs of the modern Indian media echo chamber, regardless of the issue on hand. But is …
Corruption OK. Massacres OK. Romance not OK?
PALINI R. SWAMY writes from Bangalore: Like a kaleidoscope, you can view the “revelation” of the half-century-old S.M. Krishna–B. Saroja Devi fling, and the spat at the book release in …
