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Driving across Ireland (21 March 02:05) |
| It seemed a very workable idea indeed, to drive across Ireland and discover its many attractions, its people, its natural beauty. |
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Pedalling the wrong idea (20 March 09:31) |
| Bicycles are great -- as long as they remain on paper! |
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Why compete (20 March 09:29) |
| I have often wondered about this thing called competitive spirit. Of how it surfaces in the least expected places. |
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Team Gadkari not yet final (19 March 11:05) |
| BJP MP Shatrughan Sinha commented that Yashwant Sinha and a few other deserving candidates have been ignored. |
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Headley factor (19 March 11:00) |
| The decision by US citizen and suspected Lashkar-e-Taiba operative David Headley to plead guilty to the 12 charges against him in a US federal court hardly comes as a surprise to India. |
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Pubs poets and Naomi in Dublin (19 March 10:58) |
| It was my second visit to Dublin and there seemed a certain sense of familiarity as I hit the cobbled streets and felt the chilly late autumn breeze beating my cheeks. |
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Fish out of water (19 March 10:56) |
| The bluefin tuna is on the fast track to extinction, thanks to human greed |
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Failure is not the end (19 March 10:19) |
| Many of us spend a lifetime thinking of our failures. It does us no good. The more we think of them, the more we get sucked into a whirlpool of self-pity and depression. |
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Georges Bernanos (18 March 10:35) |
| The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end
justifies the means.
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Love all (18 March 10:34) |
| Both Sampras and Agassi clearly have not managed to get rid of the anger and bitterness of the past. |
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Mayawatis hubris (18 March 10:32) |
| UP chief minister Mayawati and Kanshi Ram, her mentor and founder of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), had never promised to play by the rulebook or follow etiquette of any kind. |
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Show of wealth (18 March 10:31) |
| Garlanding Bahujan Samajwadi Party leader and chief minister of Uttar Pradesh Mayawati with a garland of rupees was an ostentatious and brazen show of wealth. |
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Spiritual knowledge (18 March 10:28) |
| Helping others physically, by removing their physical needs, is indeed great; but the help is greater, according as the need is greater and according as the help is far-reaching. |
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The art of defining Bombay to Germans (18 March 10:27) |
| I struggled for a few days to define or to narrow down to an interesting way into the myriad possibilities within this universe of discourse. |
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AI crisis governance (18 March 10:25) |
| What will the four new 'independent' directors achieve in this hour of crisis? |
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Lessons from a cat (18 March 09:45) |
| Last week, a pall of gloom descended on my house following my father's demise. I wasn't very happy following the strict Hindu rituals for 13 days. |
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Managing inflation (17 March 10:52) |
| Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee was forthright in the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday about inflation being an issue of concern. |
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ATS bungle (17 March 10:51) |
| Once again the Maharashtra police has demonstrated its talent for putting its collective foot in its mouth. |
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New world disorder (17 March 10:44) |
| Five forces will change the world, and India's rise is the only benign one among them |
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The only reality (17 March 10:31) |
| Divine mind is the one and only reality. When we incorporate the ideas that form this Mind into our mind and persevere in those ideas, a mighty strength wells up within us. |
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A better choice (17 March 10:28) |
| If the judges who made the statement, 'Rape worse crime than murder' believe that it is indeed so, why do they not sentence rape offenders more severely than murderers? |
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North-South divide (17 March 12:04) |
| The further south one goes, the higher is the age of marriage for women and the smaller the size of the family. |
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Go easy on Ivy League dreams please (17 March 12:01) |
| It shows up, at one level, a Human Resource Development minister capable of thinking big on a project that can truly unlock human resource potential in India. |
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Gadkari buzz (16 March 11:58) |
| The inclusion of Varun Gandhi is sure to raise eyebrows, and it betrays BJP's agonising dilemma. |
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Nuclear confusion (16 March 11:57) |
| If India plans to expand its nuclear power generation in a big way there is need for legislation on liability. |
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Insult to injury (16 March 11:54) |
| The commitment to check the spiraling prices of basic foodgrains by the government illustrates their commitment to the aam aadmi. |
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Magic of Tao (16 March 11:51) |
| Naming is the origin of all particular things. Free from desire, you realise the mystery. Caught in desire, you see only the manifestations. |
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To new beginnings (16 March 09:55) |
| That life is a mixed bag of sweet and sour and the sooner we learn to deal with the ups and downs with stoic equanimity, the better for us. |
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Colour of shame (15 March 11:35) |
| Even if MF Husain had drawn a real nude, he would have only continued the tradition of artistic representation of our goddesses set centuries ago. |
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The Nitish effect (15 March 11:32) |
| Nitish Kumar has worked quietly to effect changes and the success is reflected in the economic figures. |
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Beyond symbolism (15 March 11:31) |
| Uttar Pradesh remains backward on most human development factors and Mayawati has done little to change it. |
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Crescendo of confusion in the hills (15 March 10:56) |
| The 'poem', grandly taught under 'literature' is not a poem at all, as it turns out. It is a song from the Hollywood musical, The Sound of Music. |
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Happy New Year (15 March 10:49) |
| The Brahma Purana holds that it was on a Gudi Padwa that Lord Brahma created the world again after a devastating deluge and time began to tick from this day forth. |
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Grace under strain (15 March 11:37) |
| Dr Martin Luther King Jr. once said in a speech: "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." ... |
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Folly on private wheels (15 March 12:49) |
| We need more investment in public transport, and less emphasis on private vehicles. |
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Toilet test at Rashtrapati Bhavan (15 March 12:48) |
| Early in life, we Indians learn without being taught that one need not ask for directions when in search of a urinal.c |
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British inheritance (15 March 12:47) |
| The opinion that an aptitude test for civil service candidates should ensure the desirable attitudes of civility and service, which often are lacking among civil servants, was spot on. |
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One more win (15 March 12:44) |
| The armed forces' justifications are sadly just that -- attempts to prolong a historic wrong. |
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Russian realities (15 March 12:43) |
| India will have to learn to look at Russia without the blinkers of the past and assess the new realities. |
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Why sack 100000 people when just one will do (13 March 10:26) |
| If neta-babu meddling is responsible for ruining the companies, how can their committees address the core issues bedevilling the public sector? It's like asking the fox to guard the hen-pen. |
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Going back in time with Ravi Varma (13 March 09:47) |
| It was the Delhi launch last Saturday of Rupika Chawla's book, Raja Ravi Varma -- Painter of Colonial India (Mapin Publishing), for which the guests, both men and women, had been requested t... |
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Do it your way (13 March 09:46) |
| A few days ago a leading UK newspaper had several well known writers send in 10 rules to follow if one was writing a novel. |
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Bangalores innovators (13 March 09:44) |
| Many ideas in search of meaning, mentors, moxie and good old money. |
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Short public memory (13 March 12:13) |
| With the passage of the Women's Reservation Bill in the Rajya Sabha, sycophancy in India has touched a new low. |
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Night out in Berlin -- and how (13 March 12:10) |
| Our guide was a young Australian girl who had fallen in love with Berlin and stayed back. |
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Caveat on Bharat Ratna (13 March 12:07) |
| Sachin is a talented batsman and nice guy, but he is not Jawaharlal Nehru or Nelson Mandela or CV Raman. |
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Need for a better mix (13 March 12:03) |
| Fashion shows should be an exercise in giving Indian fashion its own resonance and making it an attractive player. |
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The Yoni power (12 March 08:46) |
| When I tell you that the memory that is triggered is of a line of Amazonian women with their saris hoisted above their waists in public in Chennai, I dare say you will empathise with my trau... |
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The power of the yoni (12 March 08:46) |
| When I tell you the memory of a line of Amazonian women with their saris hoisted above their waists in public, I daresay you will empathise with my traumatised state. |
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Going back in time with Raja Ravi Varma (11 March 11:34) |
| This evening she looked like a heavenly beauty who had just stepped out of a Raja Ravi Varma portrait -- courtesy a traditional South Indian silk sari with a resplendent border. |
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