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Even as the Gulf war slowly turns into a war of egos and a load of baloney from everyone involved, one reality stands out - the diminished relevance...
I remember the initial days of recognising ‘something abnormal’ in the way I was living my life. My first instinct was to dismiss it as my...
We are into the second day of the so-called truce in the Middle East, touted as victory by all who lobbed bombs into the other man’s territory with...
One of the earliest lessons I learnt as a student of journalism is that not every piece of news that we read has the same impact on our nervous...
Two headlines - both equally belligerent and spewing fire — confronted me this morning. “Trump threatens Iran with consequences ‘at a level...
The columnist in me is frustrated today. The author in me is despondent. And my creative instinct is at a crossroads. In spite of being in the opinion...
Recently, I met a suave young lady — a style consultant — over a coffee. It was a meeting that had been planned as part of a writing assignment,...
Ever since social media slipped quietly into our lives, the world seems to have lost some of its calm. My own relationship with it has long been...
Justice is an elusive and often ambiguous idea. It does not always arrive where one expects it to, nor does it consistently side with those who have...
Nothing feels more paradoxical than this — a cardiac surgeon doing his rounds, checking on patients who have come to him to mend failing hearts,...