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Should M.S. Dhoni be endorsing liquor products?
Long years ago, shortly after India had won the World Cup for the first time, Kapil Dev promoted soft drinks. “Lucky consumers” who landed the right kind of bottle crowns …
What’s in a name? The key to a casteless society?
Hegde, Gowda, Jois, Shetty, Rai, Iyer, Iyengar, Gounder, Namboodiri, Menon, Nair, Nambiar, Reddy, Naidu, Rao, Patnaik, Hota, Panda, Naik, Shinde, Jadhav, Patel, Shah, Desai… Chatterjee, Mukerjee, Bannerjee, Sen, Das, Roy, …
Do the mighty judges have the layman’s wisdom?
As Union health minister Anbumani Ramadoss‘s diktat for a nationwide ban on smoking in public spaces, including private offices, from October 2 awaits judicial scrutiny, an opinion poll shows the …
CHURUMURI POLL: Will the smoking ban work?
Union health minister Anbumani Ramadoss has announced a nationwide ban on smoking and other forms of tobacco consumption in all government and private offices from October 2. Smoking will also …
Why middleclass needn’t take elections seriously
ALOK PRASANNA writes from Bangalore: OK, so I succumbed to the pressure and voted. All those radio ads, the newspapers specials, the gigantic banners on streets, and peer pressure from …
These are just five things I don’t understand
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN is plain baffled: How come our editors and anchors find the time and inclination to write long considered essays on “Growing coffee in Latin American countries” or “Growing …
It’s unofficial: 2009 is the year of mother & child
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: As I went round Delhi, I saw pictures of the mother and child pasted everywhere: on Kashmiri Gate, at INA market and Sarojini Nagar market, and on …