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Word of the day: ApocryphalApocryphal is a word used for stories that may not be true or have no proof. It is often linked to old legends, rumors, and doubtful claims...- Why renting bees is new agri buzzwordWith bee populations declining due to habitat loss and climate change, Indian farmers are increasingly turning to 'rent-a-bee' services to ...
- What you pay is what you got: The thing about Finland's pioneering income-based finesFinland's income-based fines for traffic violations ensure penalties are proportionate to offenders' earnings. The system, in place since 1...
- A hastily passed ordinance makes it harder for people in Goa to change their namesThis time the ordinance decreed that name change in Goa could only be done by people whose parents or grandparents' births were registered ...
- View: Lucky draw of random lockdownsEven as the nationwide ‘Lockdown 4’ was partially relaxed to become ‘Unlock 1’, the steeply rising number of Covid-19-positive cases in sev...
- The Instagram generation’s love for pint-sized fictionMicrofiction, or stories told in 140 characters or thereabouts (to fit the original word-count of a text message or tweet), has a growing f...
- Is Rahul Gandhi’s jump in Twitter followers for real?There are now reports that suggest the jump in Gandhi’s Twitter following, as well as the growing volume of retweets of his comments, are p...
- Sutra DharaWhite's lucidly written thesis can be summarised from the dust jacket of his book itself.
- Sotheby’s London sale of Old Master Sculpture & Works of Art to be led by Gothic chandelierImpressive, multi-tiered, chandeliers were the preserve of the wealthiest private citizens, serving as signifiers of taste and prestige.
- Advertising, new media & poetry tackling contemporary social issues innovativelyThe way technology radicalized the media has both contracted and expanded the term media itself, it was service providers of news earlier.
- India needs to launch regulatory impact assessments to weed out laws that hurt business growthThe origin of the term 'red tape' lies in an old British Indian practice of tying all files with red tape while being carted on mules and d...
- ET Special Feature: Pranab Mukherjee: Second, in commandMukherjee came into the picture a week after a bad situation had turned worse under what was essentially the government's group of media ma...
- Finding the wayShakti Chattopadhyay, a highly acclaimed modern Bengali poet, was as insanely eccentric as he was talented . He died in 1995, but not befor...
- World's the stage for Indian cinema nowForeign fans of Indian cinema have moved on a long way from the apocryphal Russian taxi driver who sings a Raj Kapoor song.
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