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Should those who live in a Photoshopped World be prepared to die a digital death, or do they simply be prepared to troll away to social media oblivion? She was once unceremoniously thrown out of the Writer’s Building, literally by the mane of her hair, for having the temerity of sitting in a “dharna” outside …
Growing up in a typically middleclass, co-educational school back in the Eighties – around the time Michel Jackson was Moonwalking “Beat-it” – love was all about letters. Seemingly endless tomes, professing affection that begun with “quotations” from Medieval English poems and were in fact, collaborative efforts. Typically, one wrote it (he with the neatest handwriting), …
“There is only one explanation” my 7 year old son told me with all the seriousness he could muster “the aliens have abducted the plane.” I couldn’t really pooh-pooh him away, for it is almost a week now and apparently, “all the king’s horses and all the king’s men” have failed to come up with …
For all those who have inundated me with requests for more,here is the definitive compilation. Remember you read it here first 🙂 Q1. What is Kejriwal’s Autobiography called? AAM-s and the Man! Q2. What does Kejriwal’s Hand phone run on? AAM-droid! Q3. What is Kejriwal’s Favourite Car? AAM-bassador! Q4. What is Kejriwal’s Bible called? AAM-ar …
2014 will be an awesome year. Because of a celestial alignment that has never happened hitherto in the brief history of time, things will happen that are destined not only to make jaws go agape, but also to ensure that our worst fantasies come to life. Here’s what I see in the crystal ball – …
We have just passed the 200,000 hits mark. Thank you readers. It is your continued interest and support over the last 15 months that urges us on and has brought us this far. We will now open our platform to friends and associates wanting to reach out with their advertising messages. We are also available …
When was the last time you met / interacted with a pot bellied, bearded, balding excuse of a man, speeding dangerously downhill – someone who is derisively termed an “Editor”? Yes, I’m talking about the ones whose names “drive the fear of God” in rich and the mighty of the land. Men, who are appeased …
This is a story that dates back to the early ninety’s. I was then a young hack writing in the pink papers and was talking to a Bengali Industrialist (yes, they were endangered, but yet to be extinct till then). “So why aren’t you expanding your businesses” I had asked innocuously, to which the industrialist …
Frequent cases of trespassing, theft of expensive machine parts, unconcerned police, militant trade unionism and poor productivity force a 225 year old heritage engineering company to the brink. The administration scales the peak of their ham-handed callousness. The owner calls the bluff and forces a stalemate, from which he “allegedly” hopes to emerge with a …
15th November 2013. Even as you read this piece, the death knell of the 225 year old heritage engineering giant Jessop & Company has begun tolling, in the process sealing the fate of 685 workers directly. The shutdown, which is now just a matter of time, will also mean the end of an Engineering legacy …