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Dil ka Chor: Anand Mahindra decodes the name of the smell after rain, says Indians may have a better term for itThe distinct scent of soil after rain, known as petrichor, sparked a lively online discussion after Anand Mahindra explored its Greek origi...- Shark Tank’s Anupam Mittal on Indians, money, and Diwali: ‘It’s Lakshmi, not loot’Anupam Mittal's viral LinkedIn post explores India's unique connection with money. Indians view wealth with gratitude, treating it as a res...
- India's space race: From bullock carts to GaganyaanIndependence Day 2025: From humble beginnings in a church to shattering world records, India's space program, fueled by Dr. Sarabhai's visi...
- Myth, monsoon & machines: The Techno-Vedic road to India’s sci-fi breakthroughIndia’s sci-fi dreams have long circled back to its oldest stories. From Grant Morrison’s “Vedicpunk” Mahabharata with mechs and war machin...
- Renowned theatre icon Ratan Thiyam passes away at 77Renowned theatre personality and Padma Shri awardee Ratan Thiyam passed away in Imphal at 77 after a prolonged illness. Known for fusing Ma...
- US visa rejection was not end of career. But beginning of success for celeb chef Saransh GoilaSaransh Goila's U.S. visa denial in 2011 initially crushed his dreams of culinary stardom. However, this setback led to an unexpected oppor...
- With spring in our steps, we can step into the springfests of our pastSpring has brought a fragrant breeze, celebrated by Indian poets and artists for centuries. The Harshatmata temple's sculptures in Rajastha...
- Fashioning an alternative idea of KolkataSabyasachi Mukherjee's celebration of 25 years in fashion at Mumbai's Jio World Centre highlighted Kolkata as a fashion capital. Drawing in...
- From cherry blossoms to literary fireworks: Highlights from Shillong Lit Fest 2024Where Vikram Seth said “Fiyaaah” and literature bloomed, where poetry, prose, and pink canopies came together, when Jerry Pinto and Shobhaa...
- Maths teaching: What the subject needs to endear itself to more peopleIndia's education system should open up and offer those who love maths and other subjects a chance at various stages to spread that love to...
- All That Breathes: Shaunak Sen’s Oscar nominated documentary is breathless in a world that is alive and fliesThere are many ways of talking about Shaunak Sen's Oscar-nominated documentary, All That Breathes - the warm, life-affirming story of two b...
- The gendered geographies of mother, lover, consort, goddessToday, we may be gender-sensitised to politically correct rhetoric. But in literature and art, Earth, nation, region and territorial contro...
- View: It's time to mine the ancient Indian motherlodeThere are several such (secular) stories of ancient India and more than enough great empires, grand rivalries, doomed love stories, female-...
- Remembering Atal Bihari Vajpayee: His poetry and his pausesI would go whenever possible to listen to Vajpayee speak and one evening speech on the beaches of Mumbai made a lasting impression for the ...
- CBDT clarification on foreign arms’ tax liabilities in a weekSuch a move would come as a partial relief for Indian companies that have overseas units, although the CBDT clarifications won’t be "open t...
- Jaipur Literature Festival announces first US eventOver 100 authors, thinkers, poets and performers have been lined up to participate in the Zee Jaipur Literature Festival at Boulder in Colo...
- Book explores writings of eight Indian authorsWritings of eight Indian authors in English, their potrayal of modern India and what their works suggest about the country form the crux of...
- Modi's infrastructure vision: Bullet trains & linking rivers great ideas, new cities not soCritics who argue about the high costs and attendant ‘elitism’ will be swept away by the power of an idea whose time is clearly overdue.
- Humans unlikely to let bananas supplant the potatoIt is a bit of a stretch to imagine a smooth transition from that globular vegetable to that pendulous fruit in many dishes.
- It’s in our nature to fashion religionsImagine an alien browsing through a galactic library for 1950s Bollywood classics. How should he react to a title such as Chaudhvin Ka Chan...
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