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India’s brandy boom still feels uncool. Liquor cos want to give it a makeoverBrandy, a spirit deeply entrenched in South India's culture and cinema, is now undergoing a national makeover. Despite being India's second...- Mary Jane shoes return: Comfort meets power dressing in 2026The Mary Jane shoe, traditionally viewed as a practical choice, has undergone a stylish transformation. Now, it embodies a blend of sophist...
- Not colonial, or 2025, but the hangoverWelcome to January 1st! While many ponder our colonial past or stress about the future, let’s be real: the true hangover from last night’s ...
- Why it's okay to lose at home to S AfricaIndia's men's cricket team lost a home Test series to South Africa. This defeat offers strategic advantages. The team can attribute the los...
- Harris, Sunak or Mamdani could spoil the 'West' by recreating it with 'Indian characteristics'The thrill is real: a symbolic comeuppance that disproves any ethnic inferiority. But, paradoxically, this is marked by a lingering doubt a...
- Fish & chips, cultural misappropriation!Indian restaurants are falsely advertising local fish fry as British fish and chips. This culinary misrepresentation is happening across me...
- Linked to Britishers: Saurabh Mukherjea explains why India obsessed with elite degrees despite it not guaranteeing successSaurabh Mukherjea argues India's colonial-era obsession with elite degrees is outdated, urging a return to its entrepreneurial roots. He em...
- Tackling a hangover Epicurean-styleCall it the most palpable form of punishment for the sin of pleasure in this festive season. Whether your poison last night was the finest ...
- Bharat vs India debate: Even ex-PM Indira Gandhi took oath as 'Bharat ka Pradhan Mantri', says Himanta Biswa SarmaTalking to mediapeson in Guwahati he said, “Indira Gandhi took the oath as 'Bharat ka Pradhan Mantri', not as the Prime Minister of India. ...
- India in Reserve Bank's name should be replaced with Bharat: Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa SarmaAssam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has suggested that institutions like the Reserve Bank of India should be renamed to 'Reserve Bank ...
- View: Fear of online liquor delivery, the ultimate post-colonial hangoverFor consumers, retailers, aggregators, governments and liquor companies, home delivery of alcohol is a win-win-win-win-win. So why the resi...
- Ghostbusting in Ghost TownA spectre is haunting Kolkata — and it’s not the ghost of communism or the ghoul of a colonial hangover. It’s actual spectres. The matter i...
- ‘Well done, chef!’ Twitter lauds Vikas Khanna for classy reply to TV anchor who questioned his ‘sense of hunger’Twitterati were all-praise for the classy reply by Vikas Khanna.
- Supreme Court refuses to entertain plea against execution of death penalty by hangingAn 88-year-old Kerala-based freedom fighter, S Parameswaran Nampoothiri, has challenged the legality and validity of section 354 (5) of the...
- Conjuring desi spirits to cure colonial hangoverBoutique liquor companies, government agency attempt to tap a growing market for local flavours.
- Scrap sedition law, a colonial hangover: Kapil SibalHe also called for a change in the government to save the country. "Scrap sedition law (section 124A,IPC), a colonial hangover.
- Punctuation marks what exactly?Most Indians feel that the present is too tense for perfect punctuation; a missing apostrophe — or an extraneous one on the Singh's or the ...
- Alcoholic explanation for Australia’s special accent seems far-fetchedClearly, there is more to the term “colonial hangover” than a mere longing for the mores and customs of a phase of foreign suzerainty.
- Hitler, Mafia, Bomber seeking votes in MeghalayaNot to be left behind, some voters in the state also have peculiar names like Thailand, New York and Submarine.
- Don't make a big deal of Shah Rukh Khan's detentionInstead of making SRK's detention an issue, India should think of upgrading its own security apparatus.
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