When a rock singer bought the ‘O’ on the crumbling Hollywood sign and turned a tribute into historyIn 1978, amid severe storm damage to the Hollywood sign, rock singer Alice Cooper helped spark its restoration by funding one of its letter...
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27 Dec, 2025, 11.00 PM IST
Let's gatecrash the hottest club of 2024The latest membership being facilitated is that of 'neutral' Sweden. Along with Finland, Sweden is ditching its non-alignment pact and seem...
27 Dec, 2023, 11.02 PM IST
How much money's enough to be happy?Kahneman's revised findings are intriguing and counter-intuitive. It should not take half-a-million dollars for people to be inured to heal...
10 Mar, 2023, 11.36 PM IST
On Not Making It To Hallowed ListsNehru not on a government freedom fighters’ ad is perfectly all right
16 Aug, 2022, 11.15 PM IST
Dr D's column: Why was the Taj Mahal not included among Uttar Pradesh’s tourism wonders?The Mughals, too, were rulers as rulers have been throughout history. Sometimes cruel, sometimes brutal, sometimes benign.
09 Oct, 2017, 11.37 AM IST
Some fun facts about Disney’s most popular character Donald DuckDonald Duck first appeared as a drawing in a May 1934 issue of Good Housekeeping magazine promoting the film The Wise Little Hen.
04 Jun, 2017, 12.06 AM IST
What is a hotel but its little luxuries?There is ceremony, there is indulgence and it is entirely superfluous. But then, that is what luxe is all about.
11 Jun, 2013, 04.50 AM IST
- New research of the anti-Shakespeare front
Fame attracts malcontents. And if you are as famous as the Big Bard, you might as well expect a few snides through the ages.
02 Apr, 2013, 05.50 AM IST
Groucho gospels“Fast, furious and ferociously funny.” The blurb makes The Groucho Letters seem like a Le Marx Grand Prix.
21 Jun, 2012, 06.57 AM IST
- Will Indian markets bounce back?
Is the seasonal cheer coming early to India's battered markets?
22 Dec, 2011, 06.56 AM IST
- Espying the spies
Groucho Marx opined, “Military Intelligence is a contradiction in terms.”
05 Jul, 2010, 03.43 AM IST
- Interlocutor: A 4-letter word!
Shashi Tharoor has tripped again and that too on Saudi soil.
03 Mar, 2010, 04.23 AM IST
- Cricketers, careers & carriers
Spelling has never been the electronic media’s strong point, whether TV or scoreboard!
17 Nov, 2009, 03.30 AM IST
- Spooky tales
PR for the secret services to attract more recruits.
12 Jan, 2009, 02.41 AM IST
- The print media scores
You can take a newspaper or a magazine to bed with you.
30 Sep, 2008, 12.37 AM IST
- Comrade Samisky: The Slobbering Socialist
Communists probably believe that Karl Marx’s grave is nothing but a capitalist plot. And in that capitalist plot it is likely that Marx is ...
22 Sep, 2008, 03.03 AM IST