Opinion | Off the Cuff
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Monday Nov 19
If only the chicken had four legs ...
In the West, the chicken breast is to diners what the leg piece is to most Indians
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Sunday Nov 18
The vicious furniture cycle
Furniture — I don’t mean buying it, but even thinking about it in the abstract — is very dangerous
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Thursday Nov 15
Taking technology to the grass roots
Rendering social service the hi-tech way
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Wednesday Nov 14
Trying to stop time as the years go by
That stupid diary was sure intimidating — it had a weekly planner, a daily planner, it had every minute of my life planned
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Tuesday Nov 13
The tug of the earth is what really matters
Now all they have is hard tile, unforgiving concrete and hefty supervision
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Sunday Nov 11
New professional motto: Journalists are mostly harmless
Ironic detachment becomes easier if you can hold in your head one insight about journalism: Usually, it doesn’t matter
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Thursday Nov 8
On cyber communication and friendships
Concept of online friendships is preposterous
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Tuesday Nov 6
Watch for journos trained in CPR and first-aid
Hollywood movies seem to mock at the idea of giving first-aid or CPR to someone in distress
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Monday Nov 5
Loss of memory: Blame it on the mobile phone
The gadget now takes the onus of remembering all the names, telephone numbers and also how a person looks!
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Saturday Nov 3
Word association and child’s play
Childhood memory games go a long way
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Friday Nov 2
History gets a revision in the retelling
Recounting childhood experiences is a family hobby
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Thursday Nov 1
Peer closely beneath the innocent flower
Tact isn’t everyone’s forte
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Wednesday Oct 31
I did not scream or dance at the Enrique gig in Dubai
Enrique in Dubai: Up close and live in concert
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Tuesday Oct 30
The overpowering, all-encompassing world of music
As tears go by
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Sunday Oct 28
Stuck in a desert, pursuing that perfect shot
Stuck in the middle of nowhere, this was no time to heed the warnings of a little child
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Saturday Oct 27
How did a city of dreams turn into a nightmare?
Mumbai has been reduced to crowds, confusion and grime
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Friday Oct 26
A little less spit and more polish please
Civic senses is not so common
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Wednesday Oct 24
Waiting for an app that will do away with a trip to the clinic
The health insurance company thought I didn’t need vitamins ...
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Saturday Oct 20
Pleasures and pangs of new beginnings
There is a kind of romance to moving house
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Friday Oct 19
As elusive as a will o’ the wisp
Resorting to mendicancy for a mending job
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Thursday Oct 18
History is not all about the truth
Needless waste of budding intellectual energy
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Wednesday Oct 17
Why I don’t read a book anymore
There are tonnes of fascinating things you can do with a tablet that I haven’t had the time to download any e-book
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Tuesday Oct 16
Gut feeling: You know when you’re being fed a lie
Creating strange combinations is in vogue — not because they are creative and delicious, but because they sound exotic
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Sunday Oct 14
My incorrect use of certain words
I simply did not know the sunny-side-down implication of the word ‘prone’
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Thursday Oct 11
Time the great transformer
Metamorphosis is a process one goes and grows through
Opinion Editor's choice
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Even after 50 years, unity remains a dream
The African Union is now just a feeble talking shop
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Education and its global footprint
A revolution that must be paid attention to
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Managing the Syrian meltdown
It is Iraq that now faces the gravest spillover effect
