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Stop Officers from Politics?
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday, 8th May, claimed that former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi used aircraft carrier INS Viraat like it was his personal taxi to go on a holiday to…
11 May 2019 · 5 min read
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Cyclone Musings
Cyclone Fani made landfall in Odisha yesterday. She has been the strongest cyclone storm in 20 years to hit the country. While it is unfortunate that eight people lost their lives we…
4 May 2019 · 4 min read
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Superhero Obsession
The movie, Avengers : Endgame was released yesterday and ticket bookings were “ferocious and enormous” as described by CEO of the Multiplex chain PVR Pictures Ltd. Some theatres even ran 24x7 to…
27 Apr 2019 · 5 min read
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Gag Tactics
On April 1st, I received a Court order. But I had not written an article in two weeks so I could not have offended anyone. Then I thought it might be an…
13 Apr 2019 · 4 min read
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Karnataka Water Works
Temperature may be rising and Cauvery may be drying up but on Wednesday, Holenarasipura taluk in Hassan district saw heavy rains. Why? Because the first family of JD(S) let their lachrymal glands…
16 Mar 2019 · 5 min read
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Women Entrepreneurship
March 8 was Women’s Day and as I was driving I noticed a cow grazing on plastic. I felt women and bovines are treated very similarly by a patriarchal society. These two…
9 Mar 2019 · 5 min read
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Air-strike Afterthoughts...
Financial Shield Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman is back on Indian soil and some say with his return a war has been averted. But we doubt if there would have been a war…
2 Mar 2019 · 5 min read
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Give NCC a try
On Valentine’s Day, it was not the red of roses that engulfed India, but the blood of our soldiers. Immediately after the Pulwama terror attack, social media was flooded with posts expressing…
23 Feb 2019 · 4 min read
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Pink Trap & Home Science
Two days ago, our world had turned pink. It was Valentine’s Day. It should have turned red but somehow many advertisements were in pink, implying it was targeted at women. All this…
16 Feb 2019 · 4 min read
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Can Indira 2.0 save Congress?
On 23rd January, the Congress finally played its Ace card when it was left out of the SP-BSP coalition in UP. It appointed Priyanka Gandhi Vadra as the Party General Secretary for…
2 Feb 2019 · 5 min read
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New Vidhana Soudha : Eagleton Golf Resort ?
The nataka in Karnataka is never-ending. With BJP sending their folk to Gurugram and a few Congress MLAs and independent MLAs hiding out in Mumbai, the political nataka is playing out like…
19 Jan 2019 · 4 min read
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Musings on Sabarimala
On January 2nd in the dark of the night two women dressed in black waited atop a hill to enter a restricted area. They waited for the right time to make a…
12 Jan 2019 · 4 min read
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Porn Invasion
Yippee… we are number three in the world ! First is USA, second is UK and third is India. Before we get too excited, no, we are not the third biggest economy…
29 Dec 2018 · 4 min read
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Dogs, Pigs, Cows & now Horses
On December 18, Parvathamma, a vegetable vendor, was attacked by stray horses. The attack was so swift and severe that the horses killed her within a minute! Now, while the horses are…
22 Dec 2018 · 4 min read
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Old Horses + Young Stallions = VICTORY
On April 26th 2018, the Congress party sent their old horse to Madhya Pradesh (MP) to win. Not just win but destroy the 15-year reign of BJP in that State. That old…
15 Dec 2018 · 5 min read
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Potholes, Manholes & Assholes
Before you claim the word ‘asshole’ is in bad taste and send me hate mails, stop and channel that displeasure towards your local government that constantly digs up an old manhole after…
8 Dec 2018 · 4 min read
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Trust in God, not Religion
Two days ago we got news that an American “adventurer and missionary” John Allen Chau was killed by members of Sentinelese tribe. This tribe inhabits the North Sentinel Island, one of the…
24 Nov 2018 · 6 min read
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Flash and Encash
It’s celebrity wedding season and it has begun with Ranveer Singh - Deepika Padukone getting married at Lake Como. If you are wondering, “Where is this Lake?!” you are not alone. Because…
17 Nov 2018 · 5 min read
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The Month of Tipu & Crackers
Come November, two controversies will always crop up — Tipu Jayanti and bursting fire crackers. And both reflect lack of insensitivity to fellow citizens. In the case of Tipu Jayanti, we wonder…
10 Nov 2018 · 5 min read
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Indians’ Superman Complex
Last Friday, 62 people died and 90 were injured in Punjab when Train No. 74943 from Jalandhar to Amritsar ploughed through a crowd that had gathered for a Ram Leela event. And…
27 Oct 2018 · 5 min read
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#MeToo
Predators swarm places where there’s prey. And that’s what happened in the recently held Dasara Street Festival. The well-intentioned Open Street Fest sadly became a hot bed for molesters. The lack of…
20 Oct 2018 · 5 min read
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Purr...fume
Just a few days ago, it was reported that Avni had turned a man-eater. Now, before your sick mind starts Googling “Avni eats man”, please know that Avni is a tigress and…
13 Oct 2018 · 6 min read
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Old Laws & Progressive Judgements
September 2018 has been a month when India took the path towards being a socially progressive nation. This month India shed its archaic legal shackles, all thanks to a few older men…
29 Sept 2018 · 4 min read
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Talking Animals, Dumb Humans !
Dear Readers, Next year, our lives, as we humans know it on this planet, is going to change forever. Our time here on earth is categorised based on a Three-Age System —…
22 Sept 2018 · 4 min read