Disclaimer: This is a fictional account of the conversations overheard by a fly on the wall somewhere. Any resemblance to any person living or dead is purely coincidental. “Oh My God! This is sacrilege”, shouted R, “look at their cheek, serving a vegetarian meal to the dignitaries in BRICS summit”, P piped in. Now R
Most of us recall the Disney movie series “Pirates of the Carribean” with Captain Jack Sparrow’s iconic role being played by Johnny Depp. That off course was a fictional account of the piracy prevalent in the high seas in the seventeenth-eighteenth centuries. While piracy on the seas has been romanticised and even glorified, it remains
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“Your passport is just a travel document, not a proof of your citizenship,” so says the constitution apparently. Well, to be honest, this hullabaloo is being created by that minuscule section (about 7%) of the population which proudly flaunts a passport but normally avoid voting in the elections. They need not be worried as no
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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
“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
What is so special about Bengal? Is it the lush green countryside or the rich cultural heritage, the echoes of Rabindra sangeet, soft lilting and enchanting or is the earthy nature of its people. I can’t possibly figure out, but all the same there is something magical about this land. Maybe it is the spirituality
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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So it is Ceasefire time again, President Trump has already a couple of them under his belt, at least he claims to be instrumental in bringing them about. If he was ever to contest the game show Kaun Banega Crorepati with Amitabh Bachchan, he will get to the hot seat for sure, he is the
Pahalgam, “mini Switzerland” in the pristine Kashmir Valley has always been a favourite with the tourists, also an ideal locale for film shootings. With the onset of Summers, tourists were thronging the Kashmir Valley in thousands, enjoying the fruits of normalisation of situation, post abrogation of Article 370. As a consequence, complacency tends to set
Waqf is the bone of contention these days, as we all know, it is an Urdu word and by now we also know that it refers to property donated for charity, dedicated to Allah, thus ensuring that it can’t be sold or purchased or even transferred for personal gain. I know I am treading on
