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Finding the Link!

  ~By Dilip Bobb The entire country is in a panic following orders from the GOI—government of India or Mai Baap as some call it—that you need to link your Aadhaar number to all the services you...

Queen for Two Days

  ~By Dilip Bobb So overwhelmed was Ivanka Trump by the red carpet welcome she received on her recent trip to India, treated like royalty plus, that she just had to send her father, President D...

Taken for a Ride

By Dilip Bobb Amusement parks are seen as an enjoyable diversion for families and kids with their Ferris Wheels and water slides but of late, the main attractions are rides that are scary and hair-...

Soft Targets

  ~By Dilip Bobb It’s not just soldiers on the northern borders who are in the line of fire, a whole range of people have become soft targets of late, despite the fact that some are dead or fic...

Darkness at Noon

  ~By Dilip Bobb Residents of the capital are getting used to odd things happening in their lives, like odd and even, which is among the measures being taken when measurement of pollution level...

Cooking up a Storm

~By Dilip Bobb In kitchens all across India, there is a bubbling and stewing and the shrill whistling of pressure cookers as a storm is stirred up over the alleged proposal to make khichdi th...

Poetic Licence

Above: Illustration by Anthony Lawrence ~By Dilip Bobb As elections near and the weather changes, it brings about a sense of poetic justice or doing justice to poetry. The din and dust of compet...

Conscious Coupling

~By Dilip Bobb The phrase has been trending ever since Hollywood star Gwyneth Paltrow used a version of it to announce her separation from pop icon Chris Martin. They called it “Conscious Unc...

Fireworks over Diwali

  ~By Dilip Bobb Only in India can this happen. We have been witness to a display of fireworks even before the festival kicks off. It is not a case of premature explosions but the screams of pr...

New Tourist Attractions

  ~By Dilip Bobb Now that the Uttar Pradesh government has decreed that the Taj Mahal is no longer an edifice of interest, our bucket list of attractions to see before you kick the bucket has s...

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