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Jan 15, 2025 | 
thewire.in | Karan Thapar
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Jan 11, 2025 | 
hindustantimes.com | Karan Thapar
Wild Woodbine, a cigarette that used to be made by W.D. & H.O. Wills, once issued a handbook with guidelines for British soldiers arriving in India. It was intended to ease their sojourn in our land. Last week, I found it in an antique shop on London’s Portobello Road. It’s a delightful read. It begins with how large India is. “Great Britain would fit into India twenty times”. Then, there are instructions about the local currency.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
thewire.in | Karan Thapar
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Dec 7, 2024 | 
htsyndication.com | Karan Thapar
The strangeness of hatred for the Other India, Dec. 8 -- To be honest, I'm struggling for the right word. I wouldn't call it inexplicable because that suggests it cannot be explained. Nor would I call it deplorable though if others did, I wouldn't rush to disagree. No, I'd perhaps plump for strange, in the sense of both bizarre and bewildering. But is that the mot juste? I'm not sure....
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Dec 7, 2024 | 
hindustantimes.com | Karan Thapar
To be honest, I’m struggling for the right word. I wouldn’t call it inexplicable because that suggests it cannot be explained. Nor would I call it deplorable though if others did, I wouldn’t rush to disagree. No, I’d perhaps plump for strange, in the sense of both bizarre and bewildering. But is that the mot juste? I’m not sure. I’m referring to two developments that have recently caught my attention. They’re not singular or unique. Things like that seem to happen frequently in our country.
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Nov 30, 2024 | 
htsyndication.com | Karan Thapar
India, Dec. 1 -- I am often told I interrupt too much. That seems to irritate several viewers of my interviews. "Let me hear what your guest has to say before you butt in", is the most common response. These responses raise the question, when is an interruption unavoidable? Not just understandable and forgiveable but also necessary and, even, required. Indeed, when would it be remiss not to interrupt?
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Nov 28, 2024 | 
thewire.in | Karan Thapar
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Nov 16, 2024 | 
hindustantimes.com | Karan Thapar
That’s not all. Female security staff must be present in all school buses. Men, presumably, are unable or unwilling to keep young girls safe or, worse, are actually potential threats to them. And women’s clothing stores can only have female staff. Men cannot be trusted to serve women without endangering them.
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Nov 9, 2024 | 
hindustantimes.com | Karan Thapar
We all know Ratan Tata the industrialist. He was in a class of his own. But what was he like as a person? What sort of childhood did he have? Were there women he loved but did not marry? And what were the things that mattered the most in his private life? Normally we would never have found out. The great joy of Thomas Mathew’s recently published book Ratan Tata: A Life is that he reveals the answers. Tata’s parents divorced when he was just 10 and he was brought up by his grandmother.
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Nov 9, 2024 | 
htsyndication.com | Karan Thapar
India, Nov. 9 -- We all know Ratan Tata the industrialist. He was in a class of his own. But what was he like as a person? What sort of childhood did he have? Were there women he loved but did not marry? And what were the things that mattered the most in his private life? Normally we would never have found out. The great joy of Thomas Mathew's recently published book Ratan Tata: A Life is that he reveals the answers. Tata's parents divorced when he was just 10 and he was brought up by his grandmother.
