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About Amit Varma
Amit Varma is a writer based in Mumbai. He worked in journalism for over a decade, and won the Bastiat Prize for Journalism in 2007. His bestselling novel, My Friend Sancho, was published in 2009. He is best known for his blog, India Uncut. His current project is a non-fiction book about the lack of personal and economic freedoms in post-Independence India.
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This is the 11th installment of The Rationalist, my column for the Times of India. Remember, remember, the sixth of…
This is the 10th installment of The Rationalist, my column for the Times of India. A debate has been conducted…
This is the first installment of Politics Without Romance, my monthly column with Bloomberg Quint. As the name indicates, this…
This is the first installment on a cricket column I have started for Cricket Next, in which I will write…
This is the 9th installment of The Rationalist, my column for the Times of India. There was outrage on Twitter…
20 May, 2018
Yanny, Laurel and Karnataka
This is the 80th installment of Rhyme and Reason, my weekly set of limericks for the Sunday Times of India edit page.
WAR
Once I had a fight with my nanny.
She said she could only hear ‘Yanny’.
I said, “No! I will fight!
Only ‘Laurel’ is right!
Your insistence is so uncanny.”
KARNATAKA
My best friend happens to be a horse.
He said, “I must say I find it coarse.
It is so degrading
What you call horse-trading.
Such slander should fill you with remorse.”
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Consent Won a Battle This Week. The War Remains
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#106 - Generalissimo 76
Sample clues
9 across: Van Morrison classic from Moondance (7)
6 down: Order beginning with ‘A’ (12)
Bombastic Little Creep
Question by Amit Varma
This character’s creator described him as “insufferable”, and called him a “detestable, bombastic, tiresome, ego-centric little creep”. On August 6 1975, the New York Times carried his obituary, the only time it has thus honoured a fictional character. Who?