By Suresh Pattali
A girlfriend of mine was quite fond of a particular expression and she would hurl different versions of it whenever she was in an unhealthy disagreement with me.
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Everywhere I go, Bollywood chat becomes the icebreaker
By Anita Iyer
I rang in the New Year with thousands of revellers who had gathered in Ras Al Khaimah for a 13-minute long fireworks display that would earn the emirate a couple of Guinness World Records ( the ‘longest chain of fireworks’ exceeded 4.6km and ‘longest straight line of fireworks’ was 13 km).
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How Islamabad floored me this time when I went back home
By Sarwat Nasir
It didn’t take me long to pack my suitcase for my holiday in Islamabad, Pakistan — salwar kameez (traditional Pakistani clothing), party wear for the wedding I was going to attend, thick coats for winter, makeup bag, toiletries, and I was ready to go.
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An easy 100 million yen. All you had to do was hit retweet
By Sushmita Bose
People do the strangest things for the sake of world records. They immerse themselves in snow for hours on end — clad in nothing but swimming trunks — to own the honours of being The One who spent the longest time in “direct full body contact” with freezing point. Or they cover their selves with bees: the more the better — because that’ll make them queen (or king) of an alternative, and human, version of the beehive. And so on.
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Kiki’s over. We now have a Bird Box challenge on our hands
By Keith Pereña
Watch it! I think you may like it because it has a post-apocalyptic vibe, a friend told me over a cup of chai. She was referring to Bird Box, a Sandra Bullock-starring film that made its debut on Netflix in November 2018.
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Thank you, Burj Khalifa, for bringing back the fireworks
By Keith Pereña
Five years ago, I saw the Burj Khalifa fireworks display for the first time. I was new to Dubai and soon to be introduced to our family tradition of viewing fireworks from the street across the house.
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It makes no sense to protest the release of a political movie
By Anamika Chatterjee
It’s not often that one finds that someone penned a book titled The Book I Won’t Be Writing And Other Essays. And yet, H.Y. Sharada Prasad did just that. In the brief introduction, the former media adviser to Indian prime ministers Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi made a case for not writing the book his peers so badly wanted him to write: an insider’s account of the leader that was Indira Gandhi. He said he lacked “the capacity to do justice to her complexity” — that prevented him from trying.
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