How to cover tracks by virtue signallingCharles III of not-so-great-anymore Britain, for instance, has mastered virtue signalling over decades as an 'environmentalist' and plant a...
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Why our HNIs deserve a happy, prettier new yearAlong with things like SEZs, let’s have ASBs – Areas of Serious Beauty – to live in
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Bad behaviour in movies doth not extol badnessDon’t get all mahatma and conflate a filmi misogynist with a misogynistic film
23 Dec, 2023, 10.01 PM IST
View: Flip the page to the new aristocracyThe book has always been a technological marvel. But what makes it stand out from other forms of the written word - reports, articles, mess...
16 Dec, 2023, 11.00 PM IST
Revival of an Indian aesthetic is overdueEspecially since the fate of countless traditional Indian crafts hang in the balance. Traditional Indian crafts nurtured by the patronage o...
22 Jul, 2023, 12.27 AM IST
Getting modern is dropping name 'tails'It turns out that Gujarati pride in suffixes like 'behn' and 'bhai' are giving way to, well, dropping these 'honorifics' that sound a tad t...
16 Jul, 2023, 10.49 PM IST
Celebrating what the comrades startedMarch 8, 1917, saw Soviet female textile workers in Petrograd (today's Saint Petersburg) participate in a huge, citywide protest. Their dem...
08 Mar, 2023, 12.58 AM IST
Move over ChatGPT, here's the ultimate Artificial Intelligence, AI PacinoThe latest robotic fad since Siri, Alexa is wowing (even intelligent) humans. But it's unlikely to replace them, because humans were alread...
11 Dec, 2022, 12.14 PM IST
Let's adios Davos, in a while AlpineSure, ideas are still exchanged, networks continue to be built and maintained. But barring the purpose of filling up your Instagram and Fac...
02 Jun, 2022, 12.08 AM IST
- Bengal and Britain And, Um, Business
'Britain and business' doesn't trip off the tongue as easily as 'bangers and mash', while, let's just say, 'luchi-alur dom' has delivered e...
22 Apr, 2022, 11.27 PM IST
Ashneer Grover's wife Madhuri wore Twee In One outfit to 'The Kapil Sharma Show' after he dissed the label on 'Shark Tank India'Founder Niti Singhal had gifted an outfit to Grover during her pitch at the show.
08 Feb, 2022, 11.34 AM IST
The problem with Rolling Stones ditching seminal hit ‘Brown Sugar’ due to woke cultureEarlier this month, after public pressure made palpable by that foghorn called social media, the Rolling Stones 'retired' the song from the...
23 Oct, 2021, 11.03 PM IST
Kamala Harris, Dr. Fauci feature on ‘Famous Names Most Mispronounced’ listAre our mispronunciations not as important as those of others?
11 Dec, 2020, 07.55 AM IST
With Germany's exit, does the new World Cup order bother footie fans?If Germany’s exit makes many mope, it’s best to accept it outside the field too.
30 Jun, 2018, 10.12 AM IST
ET Recommendations: Book, app & gameFor most middle-aged readers of books in English here in India, the world of 1950s-1960s Britain is more familiar and more negotiable than ...
13 Sep, 2015, 06.05 AM IST
Beginning December 25, BJP Karnataka plans Twitter war against SiddaramiahThe BJP has worked out a strategy to use the very same weapons that Siddaramaiah has opted for, the internet and the smartphone.
05 Dec, 2014, 01.28 AM IST
The Sophisticate: Cacophony of lowbrow chatterMartin had everyone’s sympathies. Anyone who has followed Paltrow’s website Goop already knew that while she was lovely, she was also too f...
01 Oct, 2014, 03.43 PM IST