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A toolkit used to be a household essential. All of a sudden it has become the manual for sedition-secession.

Before Gujarat’s storied chief minister souped up Ahmedabad’s Kankaria lake, the gentle Reuben David had built a small but lively zoo on its shore.

Good and Evil used to be a simple white and black. Both now have an identity crisis. Thanks to the 50 Shades of Bray heard every day, one man’s meet is another man’s superspreader. Stuff like secularism, free speech and polyunsaturated fat…

Through this fortnightly column, Tales From TJ Road, Bachi Karkaria tells the story of Mumbai's metromorphosis

Through this fortnightly column, Tales From TJ Road, Bachi Karkaria tells the story of Mumbai's metromorphosis

Close friends Nathu Lal and Akshai Chin bristled with tension. Nathu Lal flared up, “We cannot allow this Himalayan plunder.” Akshai Chin, indisputably Indian despite his name, seethed, “China has crossed every line

What’s the difference between a Parsi and an Irani? We’re both Zoroastrians. The Parsis left their homeland when it was still Persia, and have had 1,000 years to settle down and prosper in the great Indian cultural heritage; the Iranians…

It’s the Rapid Fire Round of the political quiz show, and we’re glued to the idiot box. Faced with a fusillade of questions over the truth of the Balakot attack, the C-in-C has been battling it out with a mix of text-book tactics: fitting…

Journalist Mukul Sharma , who passed away on Thursday, was a versatile genius, but he never let you know it. They’ve eulogised you for your diverse brilliance: as a polymath, scientist, editor, quizzer, author, begetter of the cult…

‘Oh to be in Kolkata, now that poll-itics are here!’ Yess, shotti, the battle cry was mother’s milk to me, and i was deliciously weaned on the historic clashes of the 60s. Reduced to yearning from afar during CPM’s invincible sway and then…