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The Herd Mentality

  ~By Dilip Bobb   Sacred Cow used to be an idiom, now it’s a uidai, following the centre’s report to the Supreme Court suggesting that each cow and its progeny should get a Uni...

Signs of the Times

  ~By Dilip Bobb   India seems to be in perpetual battle mode. Hardly a day passes without a conflict over conflicting views or an assault on our senses or sensibilities. April,...

India 2050

       ~By Dilip Bobb George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty Four was a dystopian novel set in a Superstate which maintained omnipresent control over the lives of its citizens. Independent thinking wa...

The Other IPL

  By Dilip Bobb   Two issues dominate conversation and eyeballs at this time. The IPL and the other IPL, the Indian Political League. The former has just kicked off with its att...

A friend in the White House

  ~By Dilip Bobb   What exactly did President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modi say to each other? Unlike Trump’s conversation with Nawaz Sharif, gleefully trumpeted...

The Best Acting Awards

  ~By Dilip Bobb It’s the season for cinematic awards, in Hollywood where we saw Priyanka Chopra in a low-cut gown at the aptly named Golden Globes, and in Bollywood where the annual award ceremon...

The New Currency

  By Dilip Bobb With one stroke of his Mont Blanc pen, the prime minister has welcomed us to a new India. God created the perfect world in seven days, ours will take a little longer—50 da...

No Money, No Cry

A poem on demonetization (with apologies to the late Bob Marley)  By Dilip Bobb I remember a time when spending habits reached new heights, Splurging on holidays and retail therapy as if m...

The Arnab Effect

  By Dilip Bobb   He’s still around but that foppish new hairstyle says that he’s parting ways with Times Now. As he told his colleagues in a farewell speech, the time is now. H...

Patriot Games

  By Dilip Bobb   Patriotism, to paraphrase a famous quote, is the last refuge of the politician. In India post-Uri, it has led to a series of surgical strikes by non-combatants...

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