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Mitali Saran: Shock and awe

Homo electus

Mitali Saran: What an IDIA, sir-ji

Pharma Chameleon

India being India, you have to fill out 17 different kinds of paperwork to join a library, but you can get serious medication from a pharmacy without a prescription

Mitali Saran: The Total Perspective Vortex

Between the ballot sheets

If voters think that they're already in charge, it's because voters, bombarded by advertising, tend to respond with all the will and critical distance of junkies

Mitali Saran: Mr Modi's men

Seasonal allergies

Mitali Saran: Staged, finally

The mystery of MH370

People who can't change a lightbulb are chatting blithely about transponders and ACARS and the $10 Swift upgrade that Malaysian Airlines never bothered with

Mitali Saran: Out of thin air

March of the zombies

This election year is apparently going to consist of all thinking Indians picking a camp and defending it until their decaying corpses start stinking the place up

Mitali Saran: Meet the parents

Parents sometimes mutter imprecations amongst themselves, but the conversation handed down to prospective parents mostly elides the warts of parenting

Mountain fortress, during office hours

Recently, an Ethiopian Airlines flight was hijacked by its own co-pilot when the captain went to the loo, and then the hijacker diverted to Geneva and threatened to crash the plane unless he was given

Mitali Saran: Penguin or chicken?

My family and other animals

Mitali Saran: Communicating Rahul Gandhi

Money for jam

The men who wear scarves around their ears rather than their necks, men you send off to the store when the storekeeper says 'Send a man', have suddenly become extremely visible and also rather noisy

Mitali Saran: Dear Mr Kejriwal...

New Year resignations