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The IPL is over, and allowed a bit of melodrama of Hindi films of yore, we could visualise the cricket fan as the heartbroken hero whose ladylove has eloped with...

It's outrage time on social media again. This time it is over the arrest of Arnab Goswami by the Maharashtra police in a case involving the suicide of an architect...

What after the Indian Premier League is over? Sigh! One dreads even the thought of going there. It will be blankness again. There will be an IPL-shaped hole in the...

Forbearance, a factor critical to sustainability of democracy, is collapsing across the world. Maybe for good reason. Democracies catered to the interests of a few and demanded too much self-restraint...

Winter is here. You feel it in the early morning nip in the air, the dryness of the skin and the lengthening duration of darkness. It's just the other day...

Trollocracy. Some call it the anarchist's utopia. A few would prefer the word dystopia. But everything in the universe is a matter of perception, isn't it? Actually it's democracy, post-modern...

'Bhakt' is a maligned word in our world. In the current definition, the word refers to a person prone to expressing excessive devotion to the subject of adoration. The devotion...

It's puzzling that the whodunnit genre has not really taken off in India. We love peeling off riddles wrapped around enigmas to discover the truth, don't we? We love to...

Hate them as much as you like. Summon the choicest words to describe them - unintelligent, ill-informed, mean, malicious, bhakt, chamcha whatever - but there is no way escaping them....

Six million up, and nothing in the COVID-19 trajectory assures us that it won't hit ten million in a couple of months. The number of deaths, a few thousands shy...