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Welcome to the election edition of Indian Matchmaking Move over, Sima Aunty. The possibilities of electoral alliances are asima. Just as royal alliances were historically sealed by marriage, our political ones are aimed at securing the throne. So, as in the 1964 blockbuster, all manner of suitors are again pleading, ‘Poll, Radha, poll, sangam hoga
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It is my birthday today. I have spent 58 glorious years on this earth. Mostly in one city only. 58 somehow seems very important number. I waited all day long for someone to approach me for an interview over my experiences in life so far. I can count so many people who did not survive
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Kolkata writes its own Winter’s Tale.Oori babba, bishon Thanda! Winter is on its way out of Kolkata, and so, alas, am I. I’ve shivered and snuggled my way through it to my sweaters’ content, moth balls turned to butterflies. Keep your kaala gaajar, I’ve gorged on kaancha gola, which is melt-in-the-mouth meld of chhena and
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A couple of Bhaisahibs on their morning constitutional, discussing the Constitution. 1st Bhaisahib: That was an interesting article in TOI about why India became not just a democracy but also a republic. 2nd Bhaisahib: Yup. It said that a country can be a democracy and not be a republic, like UK, and that it can be a
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If you’ve ever said you’ve been on a wild goose chase, or tried to break the ice, or worn your heart on your sleeve, you’ve been quoting Shakespeare, perhaps without being aware of it. Shakespearewallas have surmised that the Elizabethan poet and playwright introduced over 1,700 words and phrases into the English language, many of
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Two political pundits comparing notes on the pre-poll scenario as it unfolds. 1st Pundit: The Opposition combine that calls itself INDIA needs a reliable GPS navigational system to help it figure out in which direction it is going and in which direction it ought to be going. 2nd Pundit: What’s with all these directions? 1st Pundit: As a
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No one can make fun of anything or anyone anymore In this woke world of ours where being correct and super sensitive to everyone’s feelings is the governing factor so many fun things have collapsed and withered on the vine. Remember when ashtrays were gifts to give and smoking was a ceremony and we blew
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Jonathan Swift, author of ‘Gulliver’s Travels’, made a list of resolutions in 1699. After declarations like, ‘Not to boast of my former beauty, or strength, or favour with Ladyes, &c’ and ‘Not to be fond of Children or let them come near me hardly’, he ended with the most sensible resolution of all time, ‘Not
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To be a celeb baby you must first be inside a celeb bump. Cameras track your every move even before you are born so that you arrive posing for the paparazzi not thumb in mouth but hand on hip. Your first cry is set to music, and that hospital is now called a celeb hospital.
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As we near year’s end, the general theme of things is to ring out the old, ring in the new. Or should that be rizz in the new? The Oxford Dictionary has chosen ‘rizz’ as its Word of the Year. Rizz, which is taken from the middle of ‘charisma’, means “style, charm or attractiveness” of
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