Suresh Subrahmanyan

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Cricket. Who gives a toss?

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended. George Bernard Shaw. I don’t write much about cricket these days. This is a one-off....

Testing times at hospitals

A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running. Groucho Marx. Hospitals have become nicer places these days. An assertion that will be hotly...

Deconstructing the Applause

I have just returned from Chennai, having partaken heartily of the food of love, namely music; in common parlance, the December music season. Not...

Like, So and the Double Negative

I am not quite sure when people started opening their sentences with the words ‘like’ or ‘so.’ I rather suspect this unfortunate habit is...

Books in the running brooks

I was at the Bangalore Lit Fest last week. Ever since I moved from Calcutta to Bangalore some years ago, I have been meaning...

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