Reshmi Dasgupta

Editor, ET

Senior Editor with The Economic Times

Senior Editor with The Economic Times

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Stories by the author

• Why the help of women MPs is neces-saree: Parliament could give many languishing 6-yard weaves a fillip

  
  06 Jun 2026 12:32 AM IST
• The coolest ideas are often the oldest

  
  30 May 2026 12:39 AM IST
• Why the saree needs revival, not constant reimagination

  
  16 May 2026 12:44 AM IST
• From Mami to Kaku: The Indian tradition we shouldn’t lose

  
  09 May 2026 12:37 AM IST
• More Indians need to become tea-totallers

  
  02 May 2026 12:47 AM IST
• Vote Yatra: How domestic help exodus exposes urban India's dependence

  
  25 Apr 2026 12:57 AM IST
• French-style ‘geeli omelette’ on Kolkata streets underlines culinary melting pot

  
  18 Apr 2026 12:34 AM IST
• Be cool and stay cool in Indian summers - Desi style

  
  04 Apr 2026 12:33 AM IST
• Morning trysts with history: Why newspapers still matter in the digital age

  
  21 Mar 2026 12:01 AM IST
• Stolen Indian idols abroad: Why global rules on sacred antiquities must change

  
  13 Mar 2026 11:37 PM IST
• Sam Altman's 'old people' remark ignores India’s family realities

  
  07 Mar 2026 12:06 AM IST
• India's veg diplomacy: Why PM's all-vegetarian banquets challenge global dining norms

  
  28 Feb 2026 12:12 AM IST
• Civilisation on the wall: Why graffiti, the epitaph of our times, needs to be preserved

  
  21 Feb 2026 01:38 AM IST
• How will we be remembered once gadgets that control & encapsulate our lives today become obsolete?

  
  14 Feb 2026 12:13 AM IST
• What's in a SIRname Anyway?

  
  31 Jan 2026 12:27 AM IST
• View: Pollution and solution are collective matters

  
  23 Jan 2026 11:51 PM IST
• Leaving palates in a pickle: Lack of familiarity is often behind food discrimination

  
  17 Jan 2026 12:20 AM IST
• It's all about (re)turning to alternatives: Move more, eat smart, drop the food myths

  
  10 Jan 2026 12:06 AM IST
• Feeling good about being here: Why India still offers a better quality of life in 2026

  
  02 Jan 2026 11:30 PM IST
• Indian air travel woes: Delays, cancellations & airport design flaws

  
  26 Dec 2025 11:49 PM IST
• Sniffing a chance to protect wildlife

  
  20 Dec 2025 12:17 AM IST
• Trash & tourism are not symbiotic

  
  12 Dec 2025 11:42 PM IST
• View: Is there cooperation in the air?

  
  05 Dec 2025 11:44 PM IST
• The responsibility of remembrance

  
  28 Nov 2025 11:34 PM IST
• Air pollution: Is Delhi serious about wanting its wonderful winter back?

  
  22 Nov 2025 12:18 AM IST
• Kolkata to Delhi and Back: Mind what’s dished out as gastronomy

  
  15 Nov 2025 12:28 AM IST
• Zohran Mamdani thanks 'aunties' in New York speech, highlights South Asian family culture

  
  08 Nov 2025 12:11 AM IST
• Cheers for that fine cuppa

  
  01 Nov 2025 12:23 AM IST
• Of contrived controversies & simulated ire

  
  24 Oct 2025 11:33 PM IST
• No good excuses for bad behaviour: A boy's bumptiousness at a TV game show highlighted where our society is going wrong

  
  17 Oct 2025 11:40 PM IST
• Nearly 40% of phone thefts in Europe happen in the UK now and more than 40% of those are stolen in London

  
  10 Oct 2025 11:33 PM IST
• Of faith, fervour and family: Durga Puja celebrations in rural Bengal

  
  04 Oct 2025 12:04 AM IST
• Time to wake up and smell the chai: Indians have no reason to panic over H-1B visas

  
  27 Sep 2025 12:26 AM IST
• What good is bad language?

  
  20 Sep 2025 12:12 AM IST
• As New Delhi’s North, South Blocks become repositories of Yug Yugeen Bharat, why not house a Museum of Bengal?

  
  13 Sep 2025 12:35 AM IST
• Lost in translation: How idioms trip up Indian speech and politics

  
  06 Sep 2025 01:03 AM IST
• A silver lining for the golden years

  
  22 Aug 2025 11:41 PM IST
• Dogs and the community are interdependent

  
  16 Aug 2025 12:25 AM IST
• Kheer Ganga disaster: Why nature struck back

  
  08 Aug 2025 11:35 PM IST
• Tigers are not out of the woods yet

  
  02 Aug 2025 12:36 AM IST
• How many parents still pass the ‘screen test’ in a gadget-driven world?

  
  26 Jul 2025 12:25 AM IST
• Why India's airlines draw passenger flak

  
  18 Jul 2025 11:51 PM IST
• Borrowed flavours or colonised minds?

  
  12 Jul 2025 12:19 AM IST
• Fingers win the eating debate hands down

  
  05 Jul 2025 12:27 AM IST
• Indian English has nothing to be ashamed of

  
  27 Jun 2025 11:57 PM IST
• From 'English' vegetables to desi roots

  
  21 Jun 2025 12:41 AM IST
• Celebrations of youthful wisdom

  
  14 Jun 2025 12:26 AM IST
• Between pedestrian and pedantic

  
  06 Jun 2025 11:46 PM IST