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Visiting city wetlandsVisiting this water-skimmed expanse is a delightful immersion into a hidden world bursting and bustling with life and natural beauty. As yo...
Can't count on those who count trainsSome 17 years after country non-cousins Rakesh Trivedi and Vimmi Saluja purchased one-way train tickets from Fursatganj and Pankinagar, res...
Big Bang for the buck for our thali-makersCredit should be given to the small Indiana firm producing the steel — dishwasher-safe — cutlery. For many Indian producers, export possibi...
When it comes to winning the rat raceCity mice can’t afford to be nice, but are they cleverer than their country cousins?
Can alternative diet plans bear fruit?Chubby monkeys and crows who pig out on cheeseburgers may not want to change.
Why city slickers want bathua and lal saag on their dining tableFrom millets to bathua, jhakia to lal saag, interest in local ingredients, organic produce and sustainable dining is at a high.
Holy cow! Look what’s on the cardsAll Indian cattle to be given Aadhaar-type identification tags with records kept of details such as age, breed, sex, lactation, body colour...
Bengaluru city slickers cultivate farming habits in vacant plotsIrked by the number of empty plots in their gated community near Sarjapur Road, Balaji Tadepalli, a hardware engineer, decided to convert t...
How Goa has become a hotbed for startup activity and talentSo, why of all places, Goa? The answers vary from an ideal work-life balance to the perfect environment for innovation.
Why Satish Jarkiholi's one night at the crematorium is futile attempt at rationalityPicking the death anniversary of B R Ambedkar, the most famous rationalist in the world's most irrational nation, was also a good idea.
Rain: Relief for some, and for some, painA downpour in our urban conglomerates means traffic snarls, drenched clothes, not to mention general symptoms of dampness that includes hea...
Jobs, inflation, corruption: Concerns and needs of city-slickers and villagers overlap in GurgaonWith 18.44 lakh voters & just under 20% in urban areas, it is largely a rural seat. The Ahirs, Jats and Meo Muslims form the majority of th...
- Shining Search
Even in its most harrowing moments, life never ceased to have meaning if only for those who dared to look at it squarely in the eye!
Rural India consuming brands so far considered privilege of city slickersRural FMCG sales are projected to hit $20 billion by 2015, equal to all FMCG sales in Thailand and equal to the GDP of Tanzania.
The city slicker as metaphorBefore he disappeared under mysterious circumstances at the age of twenty in 1934, the American artist, writer and naturalist Everett Ruess...
- Birds Of a feather don’t sing together
A studyhas revealed that birdsong in cities & rural areas differ within same species.
- Post-attacks, city slickers go shopping for guns
The recent terror attacks in Mumbai have left a haze of fear over the city that’s taking time to dissipate.