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Dear Nagriks — Seeti bajaao… taali bajaao
What we were handed out was a school master’s lesson in model behaviour. The PM could easily have emailed it.
22 Mar 2020 7:39 PM
Thana ‘welcome desks’? End cop-neta nexus
Someone did the maths and figured at any given time, 194 Mumbai constables will be busy smiling and offering water to the public.
07 Mar 2020 7:05 AM
Trump bhaisaab aayega: Aapun ke vaastey kya?
“The wall” in India is being mocked as aggressively as the other, more notorious wall in America.
22 Feb 2020 3:16 AM
Is the BJP paying attention to the voices from Shaheen Bagh?
The rest of the disturbing and depressing domestic news involves comical clips that would have raised a chuckle had they not been so bizarre.
08 Feb 2020 3:09 AM
Conversations by women, about women
Delhi’s “Shaheen Bagh model” is being efficiently cloned from Lucknow, Bengaluru, Mumbai, Prayagraj to Kolkata.
25 Jan 2020 5:52 AM
After JNU attack, bring on the black bands
Citizens had started to believe that this foul, vitiated atmosphere based on belligerence and muscle power was here to stay.
11 Jan 2020 6:29 AM
Am I a citizen of India? Dunno! I am still scratching my head
The Assam agitation will polarise India like no other political development since Independence.
14 Dec 2019 6:12 AM
Maha ghotala and ‘Gondhal’ in Maharashtra
Mumbaikars are known to shrug, grin and get going with their lives in the metro.
30 Nov 2019 12:37 AM
Is India prepared to bid the Maharajah a royal goodbye?
Despite all of this, regulars insist there was no better service than the one offered by Air India on its non-stop flights to America.
16 Nov 2019 7:26 AM
BJP-Sena drama: Bhaisaab, yeh 50-50 kya hai?
Today, Mr Fadnavis wants to hang on to all the key portfolios and hand out the leftovers to the Shiv Sena.
02 Nov 2019 12:09 AM
The Bongo-fication of a Nobel Laureate
To make matters worse, Banerjee is also Amartya Sen’s protégé. Oh dear! Amartya babu, also a Bengali Nobel Laureate, is not on NaMo’s speed dial.
19 Oct 2019 4:40 AM
Folks, get ready to vanquish evil this Dusshera!
As a lead up to Dusshera next week, we should ideally be focusing on the victory of good over evil.
05 Oct 2019 1:46 AM
A new kind of Bollywood hero is now emerging
Here, Ayushmann gets to channel his inner woman by effectively using his falsetto voice to fool ardent listeners.
21 Sep 2019 2:12 AM
In times of economic anxiety, old is gold indeed
Madame Sitharaman, it is time to rejig outdated rules and challenge Budget traditions.
07 Sep 2019 12:16 AM
Can Chidambaram do a ‘mutual’ to get out of mess?
It’s useless to talk about “following the law” scrupulously blah blah blah. It sounds good on paper.
24 Aug 2019 3:55 AM
How different will Naya J&K and Purana J&K be?
The most significant fallout of the Article 370 nullification has been an unlikely development within the Congress Party.
10 Aug 2019 12:05 AM
Don & Boris: Two weirdoes with too much power
Both Boris and Donald have made public displays of outrageous conduct their calling cards.
27 Jul 2019 12:10 AM
Why India needs more ‘professional pessimists’
It is the wretchedness of these very lives that the Budget 2019-2020 was supposed to address.
13 Jul 2019 5:01 AM
India is ‘drunk’ on Mahua: A political star is born
The political nuance of “Vande Mataram” was not missed by political watchers, who read much more than a routine oath into their words.
29 Jun 2019 12:16 AM
‘Law of the jungle’ prevails... in Kathua & beyond
One dreads to wake up and read the front page these days.
15 Jun 2019 2:09 AM
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