If Your Flight Attendant is Posh Your Country is Poor
I GET a spam call from a girl who asks which bank has issued my credit card, and I say, “Sperm Bank.” She asks if it is a foreign bank, then for the spelling.
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Time to Retire the Street Hero
THOUSANDS of Indians who were safe in the pandemic because they were locked indoors have since perished because they stepped out.
The Insufferable Fanboys of Christopher Nolan
Or, why is a good director so famous
The Real Reason Modi Is Losing the Young
FOR decades there has been a covenant between India and its young—pass these entrance exams, and you are set.
How yoga became the art of doing very little
A FEW years ago, when yoga had just become a public spectacle where unfit politicians performed what they claimed were asanas, the Railways minister went into shavasana, or the corpse pose, and dozed off.
The lie behind every sensational murder
THERE is an eerie word in English called ‘paramour.’ It means lover, but when I was a kid, to me it meant someone was dead.
What rising wrong-side driving says about India's future
AS an Indian, my standards for public spaces are so low that what I admire in other countries is cars moving in lanes.
An Idea for the Cockroach Janata Party
Every decade or so, young people in India discover that there is corruption, and they gather somewhere in Delhi to transform the nation.
A Famous Motivational Story is Bullshit
WHEN motivational gurus say ‘believe in yourself,’ they mean delude yourself.
The Best Thing About Business Class Is Economy Class
The best business class flight I have ever taken was with Air India.
Putting on 'poverty like you put on makeup’
IN his first speech as Tamil Nadu chief minister, Joseph Vijay said in Tamil, “I have known poverty; I’ve known hunger.