Bill of fare
Bill Gates is in India again, generating a lot of interest as usual -- and a lot of hype. Among the overblown expectations from this visit is that he will be able to turn the chief ministers of Maharashtra, Gujarat and Punjab, among others, into clones of Chandrababu Naidu.



No tears for Paaji
This perhaps is Kapil Dev's real tragedy: When the time came for the country's favourite `Devil' to exit from the cricketing arena, the tears had already dried up. Surely it was not supposed to end like this.



Before the midnight hour
I am running my finger down what is supposedly a list of senior officers in various important organisations. But is that what it is? Or is it really a group of aging thespians?



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