Cockroaches are in news, they are gloating in their celebrity status, after all no less than the Chief Justice of India has compared them to the youth of our country, later clarified as fake degree holder unemployed ones. As though ‘rose by any other name wouldn’t smell as sweet’, so cockroach by any distinction will […]
So a newspaper in Norway has published a cartoon with Modi as a snake charmer playing the harp to entice the oil suppliers, which has naturally irked many of us Indians. For the Westerners, the image of a snake charmer is synonymous with poor, backward, primitive, superstitious Indians. The colonialists had a field day in
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“Thucydide’s trap” was bandied about during the recent summit between Xi and Trump. The mere mention of a trap sent the advisors scurrying for cover, as none of them had ever heard of such a term. They were only aware of the ‘honeytrap’ especially of the Epstein variety. Google or may be even Chatgpt would
TACO, Trump always chickens out. Chickens have taken umbrage at this insult, since the advent of English language, people have been chickening out and chickens have continued to cross the road without as much as a ‘buck buck bagawk’. But now they have started to squawk and are raising quite a shindy, their concerns are
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As we get older, the sins of our youth come to haunt us, goes the saying, I don’t know about the sins, but the bones broken and ligaments/tendons injuries sustained in our youthful exuberance whether on the sports field or the battlefield do serve us reminders of our misdemeanours daily. Then there are people who
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Don the Trumpeter is at a loss now, he inherited an orchestra, a full ensemble with all the accompanying instrumentalists, the percussionists, the guitarist, the pianist, the drums, the clarinets and he was elevated to be the conductor to play a new symphony which was to be timeless and would make the Americans go gaga
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Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) sounds impressive, officialese, bureaucracy at its best, generally signed between the high and mighty, governments, corporates, honchos from the industry and so on. But frankly the only understanding that this piece of paper has is, that it must remain on paper only. If it was to be implemented in all earnestness
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‘Strait’ of Hormuz is in the eye of the storm these days, frankly it is hardly ‘straight’ so to say, and is actually quite ‘crooked’, both in the physical domain as also in its characteristics. In fact the whole world is running around in ‘circles’ as the ‘strait’ in question has put the world leaders
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The old timers would recall, a movie starring Sydney Poitier and Lulu based on the life of the autobiography of ER Braithwaite, Lulu’s iconic song in the climax “To Sir with love…” is simply legendary. In fact, the movie itself still remains etched in my memory, as though I saw it yesterday, even after more
“Hey what is with your beard?” was my bitter better half’s reaction, my nonagenarian Dad admonished, “Just because you have retired doesn’t mean you can move around in such a slovenly manner, go shave.” I have yet to recover from these barbs, here I was trying to ace my Clint Eastwood look, a childhood icon.
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