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Word of the Day: QuotidianDiscover the power of 'quotidian' – the word for everyday life. It highlights how ordinary routines, from morning coffee to evening walks, ...- Word of the Day: QuotidianQuotidian means everyday and routine. It describes the small, regular activities that form our daily lives. Commuting and making coffee are...
- Drying hair with towel or dryerTowel-drying is traditionally seen as a pleasure slightly different for men and women. For men, it is usually considered a utilitarian task...
- Is there really any need for this? Punctuation marks can have an impactMultiple punctuation marks reflect the tone of quotidian conversation.
- Are handymen a fast-diminishing cadre in India? Need to reinstate the toolkitUnaddressed for long, the people’s right to repair needs to be hammered home.
- Why sesquipedalian loquaciousness?A recent study links incomprehensible words and jargon to lack of substance.
- Engineers must find how wombats make poop in perfect cubes - and replicate itAll researchers have to do is find out how that compressing action works.
- Vegetables Butchered or Simply Chopped?The rise of vegetable butchers indicates further ‘meatification’ of veggies
- Fish markets are very parliamentaryThe National Fisherfolk Forum (NFF) may have justifiably taken umbrage to a judge likening persistently obstreperous lawyers to a fish mark...
- Changing grammar of gender politicsA majority principle where gender would depend on whether the collection of people has more men or women works only in some cases but it wo...
- If deprived of Chinglish, fall back on IndlishThese cryptic signs certainly add a frisson of mystery to quotidian tasks of English speakers such as buying groceries.
- What next, robot, artificial imaginationNow, a robot has even dashed off a creditable dystopian science-fiction novel.
- No mundane chores for India’s own VIPsIndians holding and demitting similar high offices need never bother about re-skilling themselves to take on these mundane tasks.
- The melting pot that Indian politics is, cooking rivals’ dal is just startersThe importance of legumes in the quotidian lives of Indians is indubitably vouchsafed by the number of political parties that include 'Dal'...
- Government wants civil servants to take part in adventure tourismWhitewater rafting, trekking, rock climbing, jungle safari, snorkelling, surfing and every other ‘adventure’ tourism option some 26 lakh bu...
- Apple Watch: Survival of the smartest and their lookalikesSmartwatches have saved face for the watch industry by adding on some modern essentials to the quotidian a.m.-p.m. movements such as runnin...
- Who nose how much we can really smell?Quotidian remit of the 400 olfactory receptors in human noses are between yum and yuck, considering they have the capacity to outperform th...
- Remember not to forget a passwordThe danger is that the brain’s already underworked memory function can then be so lulled into inaction by such apps that even that single p...
- State functionaries should not be disqualified for sinecure jobs post retirementIt is unfair to demand that superannuating govt and state functionaries should not be considered for sinecure jobs later on in their lives.
- Cabin crew fitness is about efficiency and comfort, not aestheticsFatness may be personal preference but as the alarming rise in lifestyle diseases shows, fitness has become a sine qua non of modern life.
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