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Talking Shop: Apathetic. Therapeutic. Copacetic.

New Delhi, April 28 -- "If trouble comes when you least expect it, then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it." -Cormac McCarthy Every 100 years comes a pandemic that decimates a large par... Read More


Talking Shop: The price of papad

New Delhi, April 21 -- "Grief doesn't end, but it changes. It is a passage, not a place to stay. It is not a sign of weakness, nor lack of faith. It is just the (real) price of love." -Queen Eli... Read More


Talking Shop: Cortile volatile

New Delhi, April 14 -- "The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do." -Joseph Stalin For those who think Joseph Stalin got it right, you haven't hear... Read More


Talking Shop: Happy thoughts

New Delhi, April 7 -- "It's not about beinghappy all the time, orbeing sure of all yourchoices. It's aboutknowing life is precious,even when it's tough." -Topher Kearby For nearly 250 weeks, I have... Read More


Talking Shop: Too true to tell

New Delhi, March 31 -- "The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you." -David Foster Wallace The United Nations last week joined a fast-turning-flatulent list of detractors d... Read More


Talking Shop: Enfants Terribles

New Delhi, March 24 -- "Technology is a useful servant, but it can be a dangerous master too." -Christian Lous Lange Today's youngsters are strikingly unorthodox, innovative, quite avant-garde; en... Read More


Talking Shop: Doc comes a-calling

New Delhi, March 17 -- "I told the doctor that I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places." -Henry Youngman The next time you visit a doctor, remember Youngman's quote... Read More


Talking Shop: Indian-Canadian Bhai-Bhai

New Delhi, March 10 -- "The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- it is far more flexible than you would ever believe at first glance." -Jodi Picoult Jasdev Singh Bhullar longed for the fiel... Read More