The United States, known for its self-proclaimed role as a global democracy guardian, faces criticism for its selective morality. Despite a...

Christopher Wren, an English architect, observed three bricklayers working on St Paul's Cathedral. The first bricklayer was disinterested, ...

This time the ordinance decreed that name change in Goa could only be done by people whose parents or grandparents' births were registered ...

A few songs by Lata would act as a security blanket for a film producer. Heroines would insist on her being their playback singer, some eve...

Prayer is a sign of your obedience to your Maker. It is a sign of humility. A sign that there exists a force more powerful than what you wi...

The worst idea in investing is to try to do frontrunning of the event cycle, and covid has shown that beyond any doubt. Investors who stick...

A Christmas Oratorio, who remarks, ‘Every crook will argue, “I like committing crimes. God likes forgiving them. Really the world is admira...

The Hispanic equivalent of the French sans-culottes were the descamisados (the shirtless) of Argentina, a pejorative employed by the landow...

When we start investing, we observe what is happening around us and learn to imitate some of it. It works for a while but sooner or later, ...

Even as the nationwide ‘Lockdown 4’ was partially relaxed to become ‘Unlock 1’, the steeply rising number of Covid-19-positive cases in sev...

The ban throws up an old riddle that’s often tossed to undergraduate students of economics: who gains and who loses when a currency note go...

NSS data for 2011-12 shows employment stagnates when growth tapers off. If poor households spend on education, there are expectations of be...

Once shanghaied into alternative roles, prolonged, innovative (mis)use of words can literally change their character.

Here’s the good news for the rich. By making imported luxury “flauntables” more expensive, finance minister P Chidambaram has helped them.

Even those who know him realised the full extent of his business interests only after the media reports during recent weeks.

There is a story about a dissident who, railing against an authoritarian regime in a busy city square, is promptly arrested and put in jail...

In Sri Lanka a prominent astrologer was sent to prison for predicting President Rajapaksa's ouster. We have a similar tale with a more gris...