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Baba Ramdev is nobody’s fool, as the IMA ( Indian Medical Association ) seems to think. Anyone who started life by churning his stomach like a washing machine and ended up with a multi billion dollar empire has to be a smart cookie. And just marvel at his latest coup: the acquisition of the Rs. […]

Mythology forms a large part of the BJP-RSS combine’s world view ( such as it is), and the TINA  (There Is No Alternative ) myth is an important part of it. TINA is, predictably, the last refuge of the government’s supporters who have now run out of money, oxygen, jobs, Remdesiver, vaccines, doctored statistics and

In which category do we, dear reader, include the work that our mothers and wives do at home? Skilled or unskilled? Perhaps, in neither; for the reason that we take it for granted. My experience is quite different. The first time I got into the kitchen to make a cup of tea for myself, I

Some say Fr. Stan Swami is a ‘torch-bearer of the Indian Constitution’. The government says, he is an instigator of violence, an anarchist who conspires, in tandem with the Maoists, to overthrow the government. As per Aristotle, the truth should lie in- between. What lies in-between in this case is that he was a sympathiser

Jesus emphasized the importance of seeing things in perspective. That is what he meant when he asked us to mind the beam in our eyes. If you have a beam in your eye, what you can’t do is to see issues aright. When the Jews conspired, led by the priests, to kill Jesus, they believed

I am essentially a ” dhaba ” man. Give me a choice between a good, clean dhaba on a highway and a fancy restaurant and I shall plump for the former every time, even if you are paying the bill! This is not a reverse snobbishness, or my inability to decipher “Potatoes Dauphinoise” or ”