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| Kishore Singh: Art's no mirage here |
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| November 21, 2009, 00:24 IST |
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My son has a list of people he wants me to meet in Dubai, friends of his, or family of friends, or friends of friends — clearly, his social skills are better honed than mine.
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Daddy's day out
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| | November 14, 2009, 00:33 IST |
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Two winters ago, the shriek of drills cutting through rock turned many of our neighbours into raving insomniacs.
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Thank god for me
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| | November 07, 2009, 00:46 IST |
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This is what my daughter said she’d do for her birthday: Invite the guests.
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SMS me a persona please
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| | October 31, 2009, 00:21 IST |
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Ours is a close-knit family, even though my daughter now more often than not shuts her bedroom door in our face, even though my wife’s peripatetic ways mean I don’t know whether we’ll have the next meal, or even the next cup of tea, together, and my son, when he’s in Delhi, seems to treat his own home like a B&B.
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Tipsy-turvey
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| | October 24, 2009, 00:43 IST |
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There was a time when the raddiwallah was particularly friendly with us for the weekly collection of empties that we earned him.
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A bad case of Delhi belly
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| | October 17, 2009, 00:40 IST |
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When we were planning our Diwali cards party for three score or so people, give or take a couple more or less, my son suggested we build in some entertainment.
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Kishore Singh Can we outlaw in-laws?
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| | October 10, 2009, 00:40 IST |
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Whenever my wife goes to Jaipur, which is often, I know evil lurks afoot.
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Experiments with Bapu
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| | October 03, 2009, 00:59 IST |
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Last week, I had every reason to believe that Gandhi would have been proud of my daughter.
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Inviting trouble
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| | September 26, 2009, 00:37 IST |
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We’ve been wanting to have a party, a formal affair — not the kind where friends come and dump on you with their problems and drink up all your whisky and puke over the carpet — for some time now, but with little luck.
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Another 'princess' remembers
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| | September 19, 2009, 00:16 IST |
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The gravelly tone was familiar, risen one might think from the grave, should one believe in all that supernatural hokum-pokum, that smoky, seductive voice that claimed it came from the same DNA pool as an erstwhile maharani just dead, her ashes still warm before the break out of an inheritance battle over her sprawling estates, her fabulous jewels and Lalique and Rosenthal baubles.
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What's the matter, dawling?
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| | September 12, 2009, 00:39 IST |
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Dawling!” the large woman said into the most smothering embrace of my entire life, “Where have you been?
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Where the PM runs into the AM
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| | September 05, 2009, 00:41 IST |
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If the prime minister has been having difficulty sleeping at night, he might just want to see if increased noise decibels have anything to do with it.
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To the bana born
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| | August 29, 2009, 00:29 IST |
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Last week, a friend of my son in the market for a job caught the Volvo to Jaipur not to appear for an interview but to buy from a cousin twice-removed, a weather-beaten and climatically challenged vehicle, an open jeep, the likes of which have no possible use in a city like Delhi, but which are plentifully seen in Rajasthan.
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Mask and the man
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| | August 22, 2009, 00:08 IST |
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My son has been searching for face masks in the city for some time now, but with little luck.
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The time of our lives
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| | August 15, 2009, 00:02 IST |
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With the Janamashtami-Independence Day extended weekend offering the option of fleeing from the city, we scheduled an upcoming clan celebration cleverly to coincide with it, even if it meant long-distance co-ordination.
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Luv's just a label, guys!
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| | August 08, 2009, 00:59 IST |
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At first, because she was travelling in a different time zone with a flexible itinerary, and since we didn’t know when she or I would be able to take, or make, calls to each other, my wife suggested that for the duration of the month she was away, it would be best if we stayed connected via email.
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