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The low bar of Indian comedy 

The low bar of Indian comedy 
23.02.2025 7

Indian Express

Leher Kala

The low bar of Indian comedy 

The low bar of Indian comedy 
23.02.2025 4

Indian Express

Leher Kala

Express View on Republic Day

26.01.2025 7

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Leher Kala

Versions of lost and found at the Kumbh

26.01.2025 10

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Leher Kala

Versions of lost and found at the Kumbh

26.01.2025 10

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Leher Kala

Minimum training, maximum fun

All the greatest sages of the world have repeatedly said the key to navigating life’s challenges is to focus on the present moment. However, in our...

29.12.2024 5

Indian Express

Leher Kala

Minimum training, maximum fun

All the greatest sages of the world have repeatedly said the key to navigating life’s challenges is to focus on the present moment. However, in our...

29.12.2024 7

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Leher Kala

Express View on cash transfers: Hit and miss

These schemes may contribute to election wins. But they are not an alternative to building state capacity for public interest.

02.12.2024 5

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Leher Kala

Going bust with statues

In India, there’s no getting away from politicians in power. They hog the limelight on prime time TV, page one in newspapers and even on the road,...

01.12.2024 5

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Leher Kala

Express view: RBI’s dilemma— with low growth, narrowing choices

So far, resilient growth has provided the monetary policy committee the space to focus on inflation. But that's changing

30.11.2024 5

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Leher Kala

What you don't know when you sign up on social media

Terms of services are notoriously hard to comprehend and few people bother beyond clicking ‘accept’, but the question has a larger resonance at a...

29.11.2024 5

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Leher Kala

The Third Edit: Is a banana taped to a gallery wall, high art? Sotheby’s seems to think so

The success of Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan’s ‘Comedian’ is a comment on art’s ability to inflate — and disrupt

29.11.2024 3

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Leher Kala

Express View on Pakistan’s political crisis: No winners of face-off

Imran Khan’s maximalism and the government’s clampdown on PTI protests come at a time when the country desperately needs to get its act together

29.11.2024 5

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Leher Kala

What an older Bridget Jones in ‘Mad About The Boy’ can teach us about love and imperfection

The older Jones captured the angst and insecurities women of a certain age carried. Like how this charmingly imperfect anti-star who would take off...

29.11.2024 3

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Leher Kala

'Ek hai toh safe hai': Polarising politics lets Maharashtra voters down

The developmental narrative of the Maha Yuti and MVA has been overshadowed almost completely by an identity politics that preys on the electorate’s...

18.11.2024 3

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Leher Kala

JVP-NPP coalition’s victory in Sri Lanka is a mandate for harmony

It marks a landmark shift in the country’s ethnic equations. India must continue outreach to deepen bilateral ties

18.11.2024 20

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Leher Kala

It’s possible to spend a lifetime avoiding the discomfort zone, just treading on the surface of things

It’s possible to spend a lifetime avoiding the discomfort zone, just treading on the surface of things.

17.11.2024 30

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Leher Kala

Rather than writing off Gen Z as entitled slackers, their lackadaisical approach suggests they know, rarely does life pan out exactly as planned

An Indian techie working in New York, earning the equivalent of Rs 88 lakh annually, created a stir online by saying she’d move back to India in a...

03.11.2024 4

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Leher Kala

The Vacuous Lives of Bollywood Wives — and why they sell

In the first episode of Fabulous Lives of Bollywood Wives Season three, a hitherto unknown, 50-something Delhiite Shalini Passi, descended a...

23.10.2024 4

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Leher Kala

His videos on “letting it go” and “living in the moment” skillfully package blissful liberation for the internet era. Pop salvation?

Recently, the Supreme Court intervened and paused a Madras High Court order that allowed 150 police officers to descend on self-styled godman...

20.10.2024 1

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Leher Kala

The big questions are, can we escape our conditioning? What should we do differently so crimes against women stop?

Recently, my son, 21, bought me an intimidatingly thick diary called Mom, I Want to Hear Your Story. You like writing, he asserted firmly when I...

13.10.2024 3

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Leher Kala

The psychological cost to viewing airbrushed lives is that we feel compelled to airbrush our own

22.09.2024 20

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Leher Kala

Who started this sanctimonious nonsense that it’s inappropriate to praise a woman’s looks? It depends on who’s doing it and the context

A fortnight ago journalist Rohan Dua moved the Delhi High Court against a toxic barrage of social media posts calling his interview with Olympian...

08.09.2024 50

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Leher Kala

Debatable if effort to improve boosted user experience, skewered competition. Netflix too falls somewhere in the middle

In his 2020 book No Rules Rules, Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings articulates the company’s philosophy, some of it wildly original and some...

25.08.2024 4

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Leher Kala

The welcoming acceptance of Harris-Vance at the highest echelons of power should serve as a valuable lesson in inclusion, for all

A woman of Indian origin is on the cusp of making history by breaking one of the highest glass ceilings of political life. In a few months, Kamala...

12.08.2024 3

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Leher Kala

Pre-Covid, some version of the daily morning meeting was the norm in offices around the world

Traditionally, cabinet decisions in the Delhi government were taken post long meetings and many discussions between the council of ministers. In...

11.08.2024 4

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Leher Kala

Mental health professionals are always at pains to dispel the irritating myth about depressed people, that they’re hopelessly wallowing in self pity 24/7

Disgraced probationary IAS officer Puja Khedkar was assessed for psychiatric illness under the Indian Disability Evaluation and Assessment Scale in...

28.07.2024 2

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Leher Kala