The only agenda the opposition parties have for the 2024 elections is to bring down Modi! That’s all and no more!This is not going to win elections, as people wonder what will happen if they do win. Will they
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A few years ago, a close friend of mine brought along a painting by a great painter. Over a century old it looked dull and listless and certain places patchy. "Could you get those sections touched up?" asked my
A few years ago, when Pluto, the stray I’d adopted was alive, I walked into his room: He lay on his back, all four legs in the air. I looked at his face, his eyes were shut and as I peered closely, I could ha
Yesterday I opened the paper to find right there on the front page, another rape in the outskirts of Mumbai. Sadly, the papers also reported that the girl was out with her boyfriend, insinuating that the girl s
Z Lohe The two currently relevant issues: There are issues after issues needing necessary highlights in the interest of the common man, and yet I am to raise two current matters particularly roads under Nati
Dr Visier Sanyü Nagas have the Right to be Nagas, and to Write and Own our History “The future is certain; it is only the past that is unpredictable.” This is a joke about the communists
At a talk I gave last night in South Mumbai, someone asked me at dinner what I thought of the disqualification of Rahul. I replied that I looked at democracy as a competitive race, in which the best man or woma
The auditors of the country, who are very powerful people and oversee how public money is spent by the ones who govern, in my imagination, pursed their lips while the government official sat in front of them.
With attacks on poor Rahul worsening by the day, in my very vivid imagination I see the Congress think tank putting on their thinking caps and pondering the best solution to the nightmare brought about by their
Many years back while in business for my father, an interior designer, we would get a contract for the home of the managing director or chairman of a big company. Now in all probability I had already visited hi
Something I love to nibble on are cashew nuts! My children and my wife know I love the dry fruit and every once in a while, present me a packet of the same, and for me it is like heaven that day before I finish
It may come as a surprise to many, as some leaders clamour for a national language, that both the US and also the UK have no national language. In fact, until the 19th century, the English language was not seen
Many years ago, while still a bachelor I was invited to the home of a friend who'd just got married."But you're just married!" I said, knowing the evening would be more of drinking and loud talk, "You need to s
With three distasteful incidents of fellow countrymen peeing on their fellow passengers while flying, I should have been a little more prepared before I ventured on my air travel. The wife was the first to wave
Had been to Goa for a businessmen’s convention, where I’d been invited as a speaker. The flight was good, but the plane was delayed by over an hour and I reached the hotel that I was being put up by the hos-
Jon Sullivan/Wikimedia Commons Eliza Middleton, University of Sydney At the beginning of my research career around 15 years ago, any suggestion that a bee, or any invertebrate, had a mind of its own o
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Kelly Jakubowski The Conversation Imagine you are walking in a crowded place on your way to work. You pass a busker playing a song you haven't heard in years. Suddenly, instead of paying attention
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Rev Dr Phuveyi Dozo Naga United Village We are reminded by the biblical history that God repeatedly warned the Jews against their allegiance in false gods and deities. He told the Jews to be faithful
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AV Chophi (Amento V Chophi) An Alumnai (1982-1992), Love Dale Higher Secondary School My daytime reverie got rocked when the shattering news of your departure rang my ears... My sir, my principal, my men
The faraway glint of an approaching dawn, softening of black darkness, the first bold enthusiastic shaft of light lighting up a room, herald a new day. And of course, the first caw from an early rising crow, fo
