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From zoom to doom: The great Karnataka bike taxi u-turn
April 9, 2025, 10:39 PM IST
Karnataka’s Electric Bike Taxi Scheme, launched in 2021 with a cheerful promise of clean, green, last-mile mobility, has now been quietly towed off the road. What started as an earnest attempt to boost eco-friendly transport soon got lost…
April 9, 2025, 10:39 PM IST
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By 2030 our cows will produce GDP exceeding some 170 countries!
April 2, 2025, 9:07 PM IST
Our Prime Minister never misses a chance to puff up his chest about India’s “$ 5 Trillion” economy, though, truth be told, it’s still shy of the $4 trillion mark. We’re also frequently encouraged to…
April 2, 2025, 9:07 PM IST
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Tarikh pe tarikh: Can contingency fees mitigate Indian litigants’ woes?
February 17, 2025, 4:00 PM IST
In India, contingency fee arrangements in lawsuits, where lawyers charge fees based on the outcome, are explicitly prohibited under the Bar Council of India (BCI) Rules. Specifically, Rule 20 of the Standards of Professional Conduct…
February 17, 2025, 4:00 PM IST
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Double whammy: First by fraudster then by the police
December 6, 2022, 12:41 PM IST
A new form of fraud was successfully carried out on a friend of mine – who is generally a savvy and careful person — recently. My friend, who owns a small apartment in Bangalore had…
December 6, 2022, 12:41 PM IST
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If a little learning is a dangerous thing, how about too much knowledge?
September 13, 2022, 9:55 PM IST
The title of Alexander Pope’s 1709 poem on youthful exuberance and wisdom, ‘A Little learning is a dangerous thing’ has been immortalised in the proverb that goes by the same words. The original poem is forty lines long, the first four…
September 13, 2022, 9:55 PM IST
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Hijab muddle: The Karnataka HC judgment is a mixed bag
March 17, 2022, 12:25 AM IST
The Karnataka High Court has ruled that Hijab is not an essential religious requirement to Islam, and has upheld a state government order on uniform in educational institutions. While the issue remains tricky and one…
March 17, 2022, 12:25 AM IST
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100 years and we are still slaves
March 10, 2022, 9:28 PM IST
I reproduce exhortations of some leader in a rally. Was it the rally cry of Anna Hazare, in his fasting against the forces of corruption in 2011? Or a leader of anti-CAA protests in 2020-21?…
March 10, 2022, 9:28 PM IST
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Should smart sleuthing be shared with media?
March 7, 2022, 10:51 PM IST
A recent report in the press covered a gang-rape and the arrest of the culprits along the following lines: A fifteen year old girl in Haridwar left home in a huff after some disagreements with…
March 7, 2022, 10:51 PM IST
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The SBI – Adani Capital Partnership: A Pumpkin and Pea Stew?
December 16, 2021, 10:19 PM IST
Most financial dailies in the country reported last fortnight that the State Bank of India (SBI) and Adani Capital Private Limited (an NBFC) had signed an agreement for co-lending to farmers for purchase of tractors…
December 16, 2021, 10:19 PM IST
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AFSPA without economic development will never succeed
December 8, 2021, 11:42 PM IST
The recent episode of involuntary manslaughter of civilians by the armed forces in Nagaland once again brings to the fore, the continuing use of AFSPA in various states. Just over ten years ago, in this very blog…
December 8, 2021, 11:42 PM IST
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Standing up for our pride
May 26, 2021, 11:15 PM IST
There is a long tradition going back to the early nineteenth century, how hurricanes and cyclones have been named. Variously, the tradition has moved from being named after the places they hit first, to names…
May 26, 2021, 11:15 PM IST
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What’s at stake when a teenager loses an IIT seat
December 1, 2020, 11:00 PM IST
The reports in the TOI about the case of the eighteen-year old who cracked IIT Bombay Electrical Engineering seat with a rank of 270 in JEE, and then lost it by inadvertently clicking on “withdraw…
December 1, 2020, 11:00 PM IST
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Role of experts in judicial decisions?
September 23, 2020, 11:11 PM IST
In January 2018, on a matter relating to the understanding of free-rider problem, thirty-six eminent economists, including professors of law and economics, three Nobel laureates, two recipients of the American Economic Association’s prestigious John Bates…
September 23, 2020, 11:11 PM IST
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The games we play
September 8, 2020, 4:42 PM IST
In the 70 years since independence, India has never had it so bad. COVID isn’t the only culprit, even if we are really up there on the COVID dashboard among the larger nations, with the…
September 8, 2020, 4:42 PM IST
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Kabir’s Canon: Did the SC pay heed?
August 15, 2020, 6:42 PM IST
The Supreme Court thinks it is upholding the “majesty of law” by holding the venerable lawyer and social activist Prashant Bhushan guilty of contempt for his remarks, which it dubs false, malicious and scandalous. Well,…
August 15, 2020, 6:42 PM IST
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A Malady Worse than Covid?
July 18, 2020, 5:11 PM IST
Less than a month ago, everybody who was anybody in Bengaluru – from ministers to leading doctors and industrialists – was congratulating Bangalore for having the lowest Covid-19 infection rate among the cities in India,…
July 18, 2020, 5:11 PM IST
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A Common man’s take on China vs India
July 2, 2020, 7:44 PM IST
Almost three years to the day, I wrote a piece in a daily underscoring how a noveau riche and noveau puissant China was treating India with disdain again and again and yet again, and how…
July 2, 2020, 7:44 PM IST
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Time to think beyond I, me and myself…
May 7, 2020, 9:44 PM IST
Local manufacturing was caught on the short foot when we needed personal protective equipment (PPEs) and ventilators in a hurry. It is our testimony to our propensity to act only when really, really pushed to…
May 7, 2020, 9:44 PM IST
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Brave Mother, Cowardly Trolls
April 10, 2020, 4:20 PM IST
There was a touching story in the TOI news today of a Hyderabad Mom, a school teacher, driving 1400 Kms on her scooty to bring her intermediate-student-son home from Nellore to Nizamabad. The lady in…
April 10, 2020, 4:20 PM IST
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Lessons from the Yes Bank fiasco
March 26, 2020, 1:30 PM IST
On March 13, the government approved RBI’s ‘Scheme of Reconstruction’ of Yes Bank proposed under Banking Regulations Act, 1949. The key features of the scheme were: a) restrictions on withdrawal of deposits from the bank,…
March 26, 2020, 1:30 PM IST
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