Measuring Happiness can be a tacky matter. After all, happiness is not such a tangible thing. It is like what makes for a perfect holiday – is it the beach or is it the mountains? Beaches it is for me, but for many others, it may be the treks and hikes that mountain trails offer. […]
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THE LINE OF MERCY AUTHOR- TARUN TEJPAL PUBLISHER- HARPER COLLINS, INDIA MARCH 2022 Tarun Tejpal is the Devil’s Advocate for the underdog, the counsellor for the damned. His forte is the underbelly- of the government, society, passions, beliefs, long held shibboleths, blind traditions, religious dogmas, the legal fictions that make life comfortable for the elite
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When was the last time you heard our revered Prime Minister recommend a film to his MPs and colleagues ? In fact, I am a bit astonished that he even has the time to see a movie in his packed 18 hours working day, but obviously he made the time to view The Kashmir Files
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The electronic media all through the day (10 March 2022) has been waxing eloquent about the stellar significance of the stunning BJP victory in UP. To me, that ranks second to what the Punjab results promise. Most BJP strategists will agree with me, even if they won’t do so in public. Let me tell
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Instant gratification has always been the motto of this 21st century, but this has got more tangible it seems in the last years or so when I added a new word to my vocabulary – Q Commerce. Consumers around the world are getting lazier and even less patient it would seem, giving rise to quick
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It was April of 1971, a pleasant day in Delhi. I was standing in a line at a counter in Hindu college, waiting to hand in my form for admission to the MA ( English) course. Everyone in the queue was relaxed, for this was long before the insanity of cut-offs robbed kids of the
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It is generally assumed that the term “bureaucracy” pertains exclusively to the government. This is a misconception, the creation of a lazy media and ignorant public. It has been my experience that any organisation, if it becomes big enough in size and business, becomes a bureaucracy with all its attendant ills and lack of accountability.
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To keep the synapses in my rapidly deteriorating brain functioning I always ask myself a trick question every week, and attempt to answer it the next week. The question for this week is: is it possible for somebody to be thick skinned and thin skinned at the same time ? If you’re the type who
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Anyone who thinks that the anti-hijab campaign is about discipline and dress code needs to have his or her head examined. And anyone who thinks it’s about the emancipation of Muslim women needs to have a frontal lobotomy without any further loss of time. For it’s clear as crystal that this is just the latest
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