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INDRAJIT HAZRA
Just whistle while others workBeing a truly successful industrialist is about having people – or artificial people – being industrious to bring you the dosh.- Go on then, put yourself in someone else's shoesThe fact that one can hold one's own 'territory' without having to invade another person's space, is something that is losing popular appea...
- And citizens, the real Delhi liquor 'scam'Notwithstanding hosting global events like the much-toasted G20, and the 3-day Burrp Festival that started this Friday - the city's 'bigges...
- Apropos appropriation, it takes chutzpah to claim what was theirs as yoursFor those moaning in consternation about how this government has coopted another Congress leader, remember, in the free market of ownership...
- Kolkata Food Fair, L'Affaire Boi PolloiIn between all that tucking in, books provide a generous side-dish, this year’s servings providing some Rs 27 crore.
- Photo-op, that embarrassing visual power play that people are happy to end up doingGoing to lengths to have your photograph taken with a powerful or famous person gives you the kind of brand equity that says, ‘Look, I have...
- Why our HNIs deserve a happy, prettier new yearAlong with things like SEZs, let’s have ASBs – Areas of Serious Beauty – to live in
- Bad behaviour in movies doth not extol badnessDon’t get all mahatma and conflate a filmi misogynist with a misogynistic film
- Incomprehensibility, a strategic tool to to stay untroubledBeing understandable is easy and unsafe. Instead, try not being understood
- View: India needs a decollarisation conversation‘Club rules’ on attire make no logicoaesthetic sense, even as exclusivity tools. Do they serve a functional cause? Or like the wedding ring...
- Say 'Don't Panic' if you want people to panicDoctors, politicians, economists, undoomsayers, meteorologists, priests, editors, and chartered accountants mean well when they tell us to ...
- Shorter life cycles: Disposables, the new durablesWhat Bic unleashed from the mid-20th century - the shortened life cycle - has become a default setting in today's world of consumer durable...
- Sticklers for rules, keepers of faith: Being empowered can make people take the silliest of rules very, very seriouslyPolitical philosopher Hannah Arendt described Nazi operatives 'merely' carrying out orders from above unquestioningly as 'banality of evil'...
- RSVP, or really shouldn't vex peopleWhy on earth would you want to crunch 'Repondez s'il vous plait' - Respond please - into RSVP only to mentally open it up as 'Repondez s'il...
- View: India bails itself out with Stan Swamy’s deathSwamy was booked under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act for allegedly being one of those conspiring to bring dalits and Muslims tog...
- View: Do not go down the vasectomy wayVaccination is not vasectomy. But an invasive force of the Indian healthcare system is not everybody’s buddy — certainly less among the rur...
- Some (moderately) informed predictions about events to come this yearHere goes my predictions for 2021 as I channel my inner Karthik.
- 'Amul girl' may make an appearance on merchandise tooOnce Amul takes a decision in the next 2-3 mnths, a range of items ranging from key rings to fridge magnets and polka dot frocks may be sol...
- State polls: Five (and a half) key takeaways from five verdictsAnirban Bora and Indrajit Hazra cull out some chunky bits from the assembly elections for future poll candidates to chew on.
- Sachin wanted to write his story in his words: Indrajit HazraI have been writing on Sachin for close to 15 years now. But we started work on the book in mid-2011 after the World Cup win, says Hazra
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