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Brave new world of vegetables
Those were the days… when you went to a Chinese restaurant and asked them not to fill the dish with green capsicum, Simla mirch. Now you have to say Please, no red, green or yellow peppers....
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The unkindest cut
Bites from donkeys and sliced forefingers hurt a lot less when there’s a ‘family’ doctor on call.
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May 18, 2013
The joy of giving
The Indian middle classes and people of privilege today have grown profoundly uncaring about suffering and injustice that surround them. They have forgotten the old ways of giving, and not yet lear...
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May 18, 2013
This world’s wide web
Who is Omar Borkan Al Gala? On the off chance that you missed this particular piece of news, he is allegedly one of the three men ‘ordered out’ of a cultural festival in Riyadh and/or ordered out o...
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May 11, 2013
Mocktails of faith
Atheists are like the pesky kids in the neighbourhood who derive untold joy from pricking other people’s balloons. Bursting the bubble of belief is what they relish doing with missionary zeal. Sha...
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May 11, 2013
In search of Kancheepuram idli
It was on a new moon day that we went to Kancheepuram to taste the famed “Koil idli”. We headed straight to Sri Varadarajaperumal Temple as all enquiries about the idli directed us there. As prepa...
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May 11, 2013
The ex factor
Without doubt, we live today in a romantically liberal social environment. Not that people never fell in love in the past. They most certainly did. And not just in myth or folklore, but in real lif...
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May 4, 2013
What is fair?
In the past few days, there has been some surprising news from the world of major commerce. One chief executive has handed back £1.2 million of his pay, on the ground that he was overpaid. Another...
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May 4, 2013
Safety 101
Even though the rape of the physiotherapy student last December created a justifiable furore nationwide, our country, lamentably, remains unsafe for women and children. Since December, at least sev...
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May 4, 2013
Good news for a better snooze
Logging in enough deep, refreshing slumber boosts your mood and recharges your batteries, and it makes your real age at least three years younger. And now there’s a whole roster of newly discovere...
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May 4, 2013
A girl’s best friend
Summer is well and truly upon us; hardly the time to trudge around from shop to shop, buying not jewels and saris, which would make it all worthwhile, but washbasins and WCs. Yesterday Anita and I...
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May 4, 2013
Reconstruct
There is one player in Chennai who is absolutely brilliant in his analysis of bridge hands. Those who play in the local bridge circuit know him as Viswanathan. He passed out from the very first bat...
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Am I sexually okay?
When protectors turn predators
The odd job men
Opening up
A lost generation
Questions and answers
The myth of the happy family
In search of Bandar Laddu
The strangers next door
May 18, 2013
Biodiversity: Unloved love birds
I was in Nagpur last week. I was told of an illegal bird market and so I went on Sunday morning. I saw hundreds of small cages with budgerigars and pigeons in them. Of course t...
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May 18, 2013
The clown party
Jaspal Bhatti was way ahead of his time. In 1995, when India was stuck between a rock and a hard place, and black money was the leitmotif of our political discourse, Bhatti saab announced th...
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May 11, 2013
A friend for all seasons
“So, have you had your first fight with your mother-in-law?” Faced with this question in the first few weeks of my marriage, I had no idea things were about to get worse. Within a cou...
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May 11, 2013
Heat exhaustion: First Aid tips
How it occurs
Heat exhaustion occurs due to exposure to hot, humid weather and inadequate fluid or electrolyte intake.
Risk factors
Not being acclimatised...
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May 11, 2013
Cyberspace violence
The face and voice of Kavita Krishnan, secretary of the All India Progressive Women’s Association, became familiar to viewers across India and around the world when she spoke clearly and fearlessly...
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May 4, 2013
Films for life
Jawaharlal Nehru observed that the influence of cinema in India surpasses that of books and newspapers combined. Its sway has only grown since his passing: week after week after week, it delights,...
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May 4, 2013
Don’t cramp your style
How to recognise?
Muscle spasms are the only sign of heat cramps. The main symptoms are:
Pain
Involuntary and intermittent muscle spasms.
Profuse sweatin...
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May 4, 2013
6 Things to do in Oman
Not so long ago, the Sultanate of Oman was just a tarmac road, one hospital, a handful of schools and a vast yawning expanse of absolute nothingness. With an ambitious modernisation programme unde...
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May 4, 2013
Bring back the magic
Write a letter to yourself. Make this letter the most honest thing you’ve ever written. Fill it with what you know and remember; what you might forget later. Fill it with things that matter to you...
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May 4, 2013
Is that you? No, it isn’t!
The light of recognition is among the brightest in the universe. Even supernovas are weak competition. It’s just that recognition is on a hair trigger; it needs very little to make one’s eyes pop,...
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In search of Virudhunagar Ennai Parotta
Mirror, mirror...
A literary mystery unlocked
Something new, Something old
And on prime time tonight
Sir Chuck Jadeja Norris
An apology to the Iyerpadi gentleman
Death by design
Sunday Magazine Columns
Biodiversity: Unloved love birds
The unkindest cut
The clown party
In search of Virudhunagar Ennai Parotta
Bring back the magic
The aura of Austen
In search of Bhatkal Biryani
Sigh-fi: Why I see Dune in everything
The odd job men
Mirror, mirror...
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