I spent parts of September and October 2016 going through a “conference phase”. Instead of avoiding them like the plague, I found myself attending 3 of them in reasonable quick succession. One was the release of the report CSR in
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Education Exaggerated!
How often have you heard someone shake his head at the atrocious behaviour of another saying, “I can’t believe how an educated person can do this”? I have heard it on planes when someone is in an unseemly hurry to
Read moreThe death of art in sport
The news of the death of an artist called Mohammad Shahid was tragic. He was not a painter or a sculptor. He didn’t write poetry. He didn’t sing or act in a play. But he played a game called hockey
Read moreAmericanisms and all that
Whether we like it or not, we Indians are beginning to speak more American than English. And the biggest reason is the growing use of Americanisms. Mind you, I am not completely averse to them, as I use a few
Read moreThe Metrolife – Things that make me go “Uff!”
The rainbow world of fellow travellers on the Delhi Metro (Metroites?) is great fun. And what the metrolife also exposes you to is all that happens during the walk to and from the stations. Some that really make me go
Read moreThe Curators of Chaos
Delhi has everything it takes to be a clean and well-ordered city. Being the country’s capital, it does not have to go around with a begging bowl for money. Hence the wide tree-lined roads, most of them in a reasonably
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