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One day last month, I was getting late for work and was hurriedly tying shoe laces in the living room. My father was watching TV and mom was in the kitchen. Even as I was busy with the shoe strings, I looked up at the TV screen to see what he was watching so attentively. It was a serial, in which a middle-aged man was running on treadmill, while his 25-something daughter sat on a bench waiting for him to finish. I looked at my father and said: “I fail to understand why people watch these foolish serials. Do they [...]
BY VISHWAS HEATHCLIFF Today I’ll do business with you. Here’s a deal: You give me 1,000 bucks and I give you potatoes worth Rs 500 in return. Not fair? Ok, here’s another proposition: You pay me Rs 5,000 and in exchange you get from me headless chicken worth Rs 2,000. Still inequitable? Yes? Do I see scorn on your face? Then sorry, mate; I can’t do business with you. I seriously think you’re asking for too much. Before you stop reading this in anger or use this page to wrap the crap a cat left behind last night, I admit [...]
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