As 2017 was vanishing out of sight in the rear-view mirror, a tweet by the advertising man Lakshmipathy Bhat caught the eye: Ditto and likewise. As an unabashed consumer of …
Each of India’s godmen has his own Unique Selling Proposition (USP): pulling watches out of thin air, hugging every disciple, comforting women, etc. “Shutting up” people seems to be Jaggi Vasudev‘s. …
VASANT SHETTY pens a letter to Aamir Khan on the undemocratic ban on the dubbed version of his Sunday morning TV show Satyamev Jayate programme from being shown on Kannada …
While the Kolaveri Di viral assumes pandemic proportions, a fine Punjabi song composed by a Tamilian inspires a bunch of youngsters—163 of them, actually—from the city formerly known as Bombay …
Every now and then, typically on a slow news day, a news story emerges, usually filed by the agencies, of a village in the back of beyond, generally in the …
The start of a big series is three days away; the 100th ever encounter between the Coloniser and the Colonised. But guess what India’s skipper and his premier spin bowler …
Nearly a week after a crystal clear video of his achievement of “life bliss” with the one-time actress Ranjitha took him to the apex of Twitter, YouTube and Google, the …
The Great Wall between India and China is not made of bricks and mortar; it is made of freedom and liberty. Any debate, any discussion, anywhere, on the superpowers-to-be is …
The Tata Nano is so yesterday. SHOBHA SARADA VISWANATHAN, in New Delhi, forwards a copy of an advertisement (above) taken out by Greenpeace in the Financial Times, London, and the …
MADHU GOPINATH RAO in New York City forwards a YouTube video of Suberbrain Yoga® that proves once and for all that your primary school teacher who punished you was not …
VADIRAJ HOMBAL forwards a YouTube video (in Kannada) in which the stars of S.K. Jain, the in-house astrologer of Udaya TV, and Ravi Belagere of ETV’s erstwhile “Crime Diary”, comingle …
What is the role of a newspaper in a democratic society? Is it just supposed to reassure us that the sun rose majestically in the east this morning? Is it …
VADIRAJ HOMBAL forwards a hilarious YouTube video of a BBC studio discussion in which presenter Karen Bowerman interviews a taxi driver mistaking him to be a computer expert. The man …
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