A former associate editor with the Times of India, Jug Suraiya writes two regular columns for the print edition, Jugular Vein, which appears every Friday, and Second Opinion, which appears on Wednesdays. His blog takes a contrarian view of topical and timeless issues, political, social, economic and speculative. Less
... MoreJune 28, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
The feisty womenfolk of Kutch Mandvi continue to tick off deities who are seen to be not doing their job It was a scene of high drama. In a forest, a woman desperately calling out…
June 28, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
June 26, 2024, 5:48 PM IST
Doing the rounds on social media is a debate between a conservative and a liberal, expressing diametrically opposing views. The conservative extols what she sees as the benefits of the British Empire to its colonies,…
June 26, 2024, 5:48 PM IST
June 26, 2024, 6:49 AM IST
Doing the rounds on social media is a debate between a conservative and a liberal, expressing diametrically opposing views. The conservative extols what she sees as the benefits of the British Empire to its colonies,…
June 26, 2024, 6:49 AM IST
June 21, 2024, 6:50 AM IST
London, where I am, desperately needs a summer sale. Indeed, not just London, but the whole of Britain is hankering for someone to sell them what’s urgently wanted, which is summer. Britain’s long winter of…
June 21, 2024, 6:50 AM IST
June 19, 2024, 6:42 AM IST
The driver of a very complex vehicle must steer a very careful course to avoid any mishaps along the way A customer walks into the showroom of Coalition Carbar Company, where a red carpet has…
June 19, 2024, 6:42 AM IST
June 14, 2024, 5:59 AM IST
In 1973, Bunny and I were on a shoestring trip through Europe. In Rome we stayed at the least expensive accommodation we could find, Pensione Katy. Our room could have passed muster as a walk-in…
June 14, 2024, 5:59 AM IST
June 12, 2024, 6:50 AM IST
Sometimes too much hype about a forthcoming event can lead to an equally great anticlimax Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement, said Dr Johnson. But what happens when the projected promise is…
June 12, 2024, 6:50 AM IST
June 7, 2024, 7:59 AM IST
Rani and Raju, two shaadi baraat horses, mulling over the poll results. Raju: The ballot box has once again proved to be a jack-in-the-box out of which pops many a surprise. Not a few have…
June 7, 2024, 7:59 AM IST
June 7, 2024, 2:19 AM IST
Rani and Raju, two shaadi baraat horses, mulling over the poll results. Raju: The ballot box has once again proved to be a jackin-the-box out of which pops many a surprise. Not a few have got…
June 7, 2024, 2:19 AM IST
May 31, 2024, 8:25 AM IST
Bunny and I are in Turin, our favourite Italian city, its elegant geometry of panoramic piazzas and porticoed streets, which on a clear day can offer tantalising glimpses of the snowshawled Alps, making it perfect…
May 31, 2024, 8:25 AM IST
May 29, 2024, 8:47 AM IST
The stockbroker had faced a most challenging quandary. Politically speaking, he was inclined to vote for Opposition, whose ideology he preferred to that of the govt in office. However, if the govt were to be…
May 29, 2024, 8:47 AM IST
May 24, 2024, 8:12 AM IST
In the India that was then, in the 1950s and 60s patience wasn’t a virtue but a necessity. Whatever it was that you wanted or needed done, involved waiting. To withdraw money from your bank…
May 24, 2024, 8:12 AM IST
May 22, 2024, 8:39 AM IST
Lewis Carroll’s Humpty Dumpty – who declared that when he used a word it meant exactly what he wanted it to mean, nothing more and nothing less – would have felt at ease in today’s…
May 22, 2024, 8:39 AM IST
May 17, 2024, 8:16 AM IST
The CEO of the Indian offshoot of the international garment maker, Uniglow, noted for its all-weather fashion wear, held a special staff meeting of all the company’s employees. Thanks to a localised version of man-made…
May 17, 2024, 8:16 AM IST
May 15, 2024, 8:13 AM IST
Warning: medical health cover might be injurious to your wealth Health insurance is meant to safeguard us from the high cost of medical expenses occasioned by illness or injury, but how safe is the safety…
May 15, 2024, 8:13 AM IST
May 10, 2024, 8:41 AM IST
I notice an ad for a supermarket sale and automatically read the message: Full Paisa Vasool ke Offers! It takes me a millisecond to realise that the message is couched in two different languages, Hindi…
May 10, 2024, 8:41 AM IST
May 8, 2024, 8:24 AM IST
The saying that nothing is inevitable except death and taxes has had a postscript added to it: nothing is inevitable except death and taxes, and taxes are even more inevitable than death because you can…
May 8, 2024, 8:24 AM IST
May 3, 2024, 8:14 AM IST
The Earth is ablaze with red, and the sky swoops down to encircle the flames with blue. The fire is the vivid flowering of the gulmohur and the blue, the bloom of the jacaranda, both…
May 3, 2024, 8:14 AM IST
May 1, 2024, 8:20 AM IST
Two Bhaisaaabs discussing the theatre of conflict and what it portends. Bhaisaab 1:They’re going at it hammer and tongs, and the whole world’s watching. Bhaisaab 2: And the media are all full of it, adding…
May 1, 2024, 8:20 AM IST
April 26, 2024, 8:29 AM IST
There are two foreign visitors staying with me ever since I can remember. They moved with me from my grandmother’s home in Kutch Mandvi, to Calcutta where I grew up, then to Gurgaon where Bunny…
April 26, 2024, 8:29 AM IST
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