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The author is a brand consultant with an interest in music, cricket, humour and satire

Watergate Office Building

Barbarians at the gate

Watergate is the collective name given to a conglomeration of six buildings, located in the toniest Washington D.C....

26 Feb 2018 3:57 AM IST

The day after Indias Honourable Finance Minister presented the Union Budget for the coming financial year, Indias urban middle class got into a bit of a tizzy.

Union Budget and the urban muddled class

We cannot afford a new one, thanks to the new levies on all manner of electronic appliances in the budget.

5 Feb 2018 2:33 AM IST

Thanks to one Alpesh Thakor, OBC (Other Backward Class) leader contesting on a Congress ticket, who put a comically different spin on the PMs dietary habits. (Photo: Twitter | ANI)

Making political meal of mushrooms

The recently concluded Gujarat elections was notable for many dramatic turn of events, and the mushroom has played its...

9 Jan 2018 7:00 AM IST

Spend Christmas in Melbourne. (Photo: Pixabay)

Raise your glasses to Jingle Bells, with a dash of Bhairavi!

It was the assassinated Beatle front man John Lennon who wrote and composed that evocative song.

25 Dec 2017 2:58 AM IST

A full bench instrumental ensemble including Mudikondan Ramesh (veena), Embar Kannan (violin) Chandrasekhara Sharma (ghatam), Sundar (morshing) and S.Subramanian (gottuvadhiyam) enthralls rasikas at Brahma Gana Sabhas music festival in the city on Monday. (Photo: DC)

Music season and social media

Either you get a laundry list of songs performed by the artist or unqualified and undiluted praise for the artist.

19 Dec 2017 2:58 AM IST

Those of you who are etymologically inclined will be pleased as punch to learn that the Australians have chosen Kwaussie, as their word of the year.

Reflections: Let's hear it for Australia's word of the year, say...

A Kwaussie is a portmanteau term that refers to a person who is both an Australian and a New Zealander.

18 Dec 2017 6:37 AM IST

Reflections: Taj Mahal politics in Uttar Pradesh

Taj Mahal is considered a jewel in the crown among India's vast cultural riches.

6 Nov 2017 8:32 AM IST

Ergo, Bangalore wins out. Warts, potholes and all.

Bangalore's road to hell as IT capital goes from garden to garbage...

To cap it all, garbage piled high and deep at many street corners in the city is certainly not a sight for sore eyes.

30 Oct 2017 6:43 AM IST

Deepavali or Diwali, one festival in the same country, but celebrated in vastly different ways.

Reflections: Deepavali or Diwali, North or South, it's good time for...

In Indian mythology Deepavali, amongst other things, symbolically celebrates Ravana getting his comeuppance against Rama...

16 Oct 2017 6:15 AM IST

General Dyerand Stephen Paddock

Reflections: Is Stephen Paddock the General Dyer version 2.0?

The murderer did himself in, so he's not going to be able to talk any time soon.

9 Oct 2017 6:20 AM IST

David Niven, that wonderful British actor of yesteryear, he of the clipped moustache and equally clipped English accent, released his best-selling autobiography, The Moons a Balloon in 1972.

Reflections: Dear reader, beware of the perils of judging a book by...

Most of the titles, as you will observe, are opaque and barely suggestive of the actual contents of the book.

2 Oct 2017 7:08 AM IST