Opinion | Off the Cuff
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Tuesday Feb 26
Time for real friends, not grinning passport pictures
All this social networking is exhausting and ‘selling myself’ seems to be a 24-hour job
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Monday Feb 25
Giving unsolicited advice is a popular hobby
In India, one find experts at every street corner
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Sunday Feb 24
Hindi lessons, the pain and the politics
Communicating in India is a challenge
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Friday Feb 22
A ‘staycation’ seems to be a more viable option
The angle that should have been the first to be considered jumps out at us from our bank books and we hesitate
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Thursday Feb 21
Life’s a beach — or so it seems sometimes
The American guests had been subjected to surprise after surprise and soon it was time for the tables to be turned
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Wednesday Feb 20
Be yourself, everyone else is taken care of
‘Wandering down memory lane, telling our story’
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Tuesday Feb 19
A tennis fan's first live match in Dubai
Watching the stars battle it out on the tennis court
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Monday Feb 18
Those sour grapes of summer
Nothing compares to growing up in a farm
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Sunday Feb 17
What we talk about when we talk about money
Public finance vocabulary is interesting
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Saturday Feb 16
'Thamer’s life was big'
He believed in his friends, he comforted our fears and celebrated our strengths
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Friday Feb 15
The great reunion — thanks to social networking
Here is our chance to see whether our memories served us well
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Thursday Feb 14
What’s love got to do with it?
Making flamboyant gestures once a year and spending the rest of it taking each other for granted isn’t exactly guaranteed to keep the fires alive
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Wednesday Feb 13
Growing up and how it comes about
It was time to sip the coffee and sit without comment, for Barney wasn’t done
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Tuesday Feb 12
Trying to give up stalking people is real hard
Since practically everybody is into photography, I thought it would be a good distraction for me
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Monday Feb 11
Smartphones sound death knell for wall calendars
Paper is no match for technology
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Sunday Feb 10
Why resent your child’s sense of comfort?
Let young people find their own way in life
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Friday Feb 8
When train journey used to be a luxury in the true sense ...
Experiencing first-hand not merely the starting point and the destination, but the areas one passed through as well
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Wednesday Feb 6
‘To the world you may be some person, but to some person, you may be the world
A generality in the air, which is a generality one encounters at public events
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Tuesday Feb 5
Is love in the air or is it the flu virus?
It is strange indeed that feelings over Valentine’s Day seem to vacillate between such extremes
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Monday Feb 4
For the joy of gaining heights — riding a bicycle
Uphill ride on a cycle: A combination of growing fitness, weight loss and general comfort
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Sunday Feb 3
A ‘classic’ case for defence
Many blame this disregard for reading classics on the advent of television and then computers
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Sunday Feb 3
When one is tired of Parisian etiquette
There is a right way to do everything in Paris — and it was probably decided before you were born
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Saturday Feb 2
Minor investigations in every household
Mothers have an in-built radar monitoring their children
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Wednesday Jan 30
A heart on the label and food for thought
As people become nutrition savvy, advertising companies and marketers have come up with the great gimmick of putting hearts on food labels
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Monday Jan 28
Talking to yourself, seeking solutions
Gesticulations that interested me greatly — rather increased my curiosity
Opinion Editor's choice
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It’s time for another ‘Arab awakening’
Despite one’s insistence on optimism, current political discourse is hateful
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The ‘red lines’ over Syria have not been crossed
A few weapons, more or less, will change nothing in the Syrian conflict
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Finally, Iranians got the chance to party
Message from Iran’s voters is not one of ‘resistance’ that their leader sought
