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Mitali Saran: Turning the conversion tables

Whatever floats your flaming boat

The AIB episode should reassure us that we will steadfastly continue to address the long and scary list of India's problems by trying to prosecute people who make jokes we don't find funny

Mitali Saran: Delhi's Valentine

BJP was busy being in love with itself, and maybe the Congress was having an affair or something, but it was certainly not interested in us anymore

How an electorate is like a safety kayaker

Mitali Saran: The second coming

Doing one's bit for the country

Mitali Saran: Offence is the best form of defence of free speech

Six gods walk into a bar

One of the great misconceptions about free speech is that the needlessly provocative jerks practising it think they shouldn't be criticised

Mitali Saran: Horoscope 2015

Beheadings, murdered children, rape, historical revisionism … and then with four days to go, when you thought it couldn't get any worse, 2014 extinguished a planeload of lives in Indonesia

Neeeeext!

Here's all I want from 2015: Just stop beating up the world so hard, okay? I don't care if not one new gadget comes into being, as long as we start managing our resources better

Mitali Saran: The pain threshold

Helicopter daughter

We get so little time together - they grow so fast - and all I want is to have my mother around for the holiday season; but of course she would rather be with her friends

Because I'm grumpy happy

At sunset there's a fifteen-minute period of magic when the whole snowy parade turns flaming pink - not baby pink, but the unapologetic piggy pink of cartoons

Mitali Saran: I take this man/woman with a pinch of salt

Mitali Saran: The morality of the markets, ROFL (or not?)

Putting the 'air' back in 'despair'

And then I remember my nieces as babies, their tiny faces hidden behind nebulisers, and I realise that some of the other people worst affected by the poisoned air don't yet know how to spell the word

Mitali Saran: The law is on your side

Unity in diversity

Modi's silence only amplifies the ugly symphony of misogyny, jingoism and communalism that is rising again. Who needs Halloween when you've got the newspapers?

Mitali Saran: Protecting the right to watch or not to watch Haider

What to do if you meet a bear

I feel that if you haven't almost drowned in a river and almost fallen off a mountain to an uncertain fate, you aren't doing it right