Make the deal!
gsmonly4u
July 01, 2025
India and the United States are trying to make a big trade deal. If it works, it could really help India’s factories and give people more jo...
Showing posts with label bloges TOI Times of India Voices. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bloges TOI Times of India Voices. Show all posts
Tuesday, 1 July 2025
Groups without gravity: The emotional hollow of digital belonging
gsmonly4u
July 01, 2025
Ding! Your old school WhatsApp group stirs to life at 11:03 pm A blurred photo of your decaying alma mater appears, captioned: “Still rememb...
Monday, 30 June 2025
Courts vs governments
gsmonly4u
June 30, 2025
Who gets to decide what in a democracy? In both the United States and India, there’s often a fight between the people who make the rules (th...
Sunday, 29 June 2025
What a bowl of ramen says about a city
gsmonly4u
June 29, 2025
At a ramen bar in Bengaluru recently, I noticed something odd. Nobody in the 20-person queue was treating it like an event. Not the teens in...
Saturday, 28 June 2025
Right angled wrong
gsmonly4u
June 28, 2025
Bhopal sets a new standard for weird bridges Make sure it’s at the right angle, architects to civil engineers to builders are wont to say. T...
Indiafication of fashion: How global luxury is basically shopping in Sarojini now
gsmonly4u
June 28, 2025
Forget yoga on the Ganga, yaar. India isn’t just trending, we’re low-key taking over the global fashion scene. One Kolhapuri at a time. Let’...
Friday, 27 June 2025
Why are houses so expensive?
gsmonly4u
June 27, 2025
Imagine saving all your pocket money every day – for your whole life – and still not having enough to buy a house in Mumbai. That’s what’s h...
Optically brightening ourselves
gsmonly4u
June 27, 2025
A recent advertisement of a toothpaste reminded me of adage `the more things change, the more they stay the same’. The ad was of an advance ...
Thursday, 26 June 2025
We are the world
gsmonly4u
June 26, 2025
And like that only everywhere If you want to feel homesick, don’t travel. Means, I’m not saying, ‘Why you want to travel? Simply stay home, ...
Anatomy to analogy
gsmonly4u
June 26, 2025
At the pharmacy’s front shelf sat a row of slick bottles, a good quarter of them crowned with chrome or beige lids: Radiance Boost Serum, An...
Monday, 23 June 2025
Captain America’s new coach
gsmonly4u
June 23, 2025
Bibi’s an edgy chap who’s rewriting the playbook: Now every duck by a player is a coded attack signal America has just been made great again...
My journey to Everest Base Camp & setting of a ‘World Record’
gsmonly4u
June 23, 2025
The first story of my life that I heard from my father was the story of Kailash Mansarovar. How people walked there for days carrying food a...
Saturday, 21 June 2025
The importance of being Shashi Tharoor
gsmonly4u
June 21, 2025
Shashi Tharoor is a charismatic leader who has a huge fan-following among the urban middle class, notably women who find him irresistibly ch...
Friday, 20 June 2025
President strangelove
gsmonly4u
June 20, 2025
Even by realpolitik standards, US loving terror sponsor Pak is a new low. India should assume worse will come Trump saying ‘I love Pakistan...
“Nice” wasn’t enough: Ocean promises must become global guarantees
gsmonly4u
June 20, 2025
From June 9–13, under the Riviera sun, more than 15,000 leaders, scientists, coastal stewards, and youth voices gathered in Nice, France for...
Thursday, 19 June 2025
Eye on AI (Air India)
gsmonly4u
June 19, 2025
Air India, the airline owned by the Tata Group, is facing a lot of questions right now – and not the kind that are easy to answer. What happ...
Kyiv to Tehran
gsmonly4u
June 19, 2025
Why can’t India fix its medical education so that youngsters aren’t forced to go overseas It’s a sad replay of events in Ukraine – 1,500-2,0...
Is Manusmriti that bad?
gsmonly4u
June 19, 2025
That the Indian politics is caste-based goes without saying. The projected caste census is the culmination of such politics. With each passi...
Wednesday, 18 June 2025
DNA: The tiny code that helps find people and solve mysteries
gsmonly4u
June 18, 2025
Imagine a big airplane crash where it’s very hard to recognize the people who were on board. That happened in 1997 when a Garuda Airways fli...
She was killed for posting videos. That should never be okay
gsmonly4u
June 18, 2025
In a town called Bathinda in Punjab, a young woman who made fun videos on social media was killed. She didn’t hurt anyone — she just liked t...