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Recently I received a call from a small buyer with a budget of Rs 25 lakh who wanted to know how to choose a property. He wnated to buy in a prime area in a...
Regressing to multiple, arbitrary rates
Unifying the rate of value-added tax on goods and services at 10% is a welcome piece of reform in this year's budget. So is widening the base of service...
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I'd long wondered how -- despite its famously accommodative spirit -- Goa managed to fit in all those non-Goans who were buying up property there as though not...
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Poo-nah became Pu-nay. Along the way, the hobbling pensioner town turned into a dancing, trancing, blond sanyasin, and then a preening IT girl.
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Has Mumbai won? It would certainly seem so, given that 'My Name is Khan' not only got released but ran to packed houses. By all accounts, the bully’s bluff was...
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Sharp descent for Padma awards – and the Republic
Maulana Azad has been much on my mind for a variety of melancholy reasons. The neglect of his memory is reflected in the loneliness of his shrine at Urdu Park,...
Chronicle of an encounter foretold
Dindigul Pandi died yesterday. Or, maybe, the day before; I can't be sure. No, I am not celebrating Albert Camus’ existentialism here– just that nobody seems to...
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Politicians, stop wasting our money on your whims
Delhi Metro has an enviable reputation, more so in the Indian context, of almost zero time and cost over runs as it goes about building India’s largest metro...
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The toughest thing to learn is The Art of Losing. There are no self help books on the subject. No educational institutions teach it. Not many parents are keen...
Aamir Khan:The man and his mind
This decade has been kind to Aamir Khan, and yet somewhat cruel too. The actor unwinds to Vinita Dawra Nangia, introspecting on different aspects of his work,...
