'Bindaas' or confidently carefree: Cultural diversity stands bindicatedThe dot on Swati Mohan’s forehead drove home the point that (b)individuality rocks.
In small ways, we all Bond with spiesNot just 007 or Smiley’s people, now we all carry microphones and cameras.
A world of Covidiots and CovidientsThe coronavirus has united the world, but also spawned new communities.
Fine to be carless but not carelessCarbon conscience plus hefty challans could reduce traffic and emissions.
Cross-border gift gets Navjot Singh Sidhu the birdThe cricketer-turned-politician’s Pakistani partridge ruffles feathers of some wildlife activists.
Planning a trip with your beloved? The Fijian archipelago is nothing like you have ever experiencedSuva, which is Fiji’s biggest city, has a significant number of Indo-Fijian population.
Age not a hindrance in ever youthful BiharThat a 41-year-old would go on to top the senior secondary exam in Bihar with none of the examiners any the wiser about his apparent lack o...
The consequences of trivia in the recruitment of new civil servantsHowever, the unsuccessful examinee who took the matter to court must be thanked for highlighting another equally befuddling facet of the ex...
Consumer craving vs food label warningFoods to caution buyers not to eat some of its Italian sauces and pastas “more than once a week” promises interesting revelations about hum...
If doctors abandon the white coat, semiotic confusion would ruleUnless medical staff are offered a similarly powerful alternative meme, it is unlikely they will doff their white coats willingly in India.
With the entreaty to horn gone in Maharashtra, will horners stop horning?It is surprising that the state govet believes that excessive 'horning' is due to diligent motorists heeding the exhortations exuberantly p...
Gana-gana mana!His name — Ganapati-Ganesh — celebrates Gana, or community: one finds the secular avatar of the same sort of association rhyming and resona...
When Field Marshal J Maneckshaw insouciantly complimented Indira Gandhi's hair styleField Marshal SH F J Maneckshaw once insouciantly lauded his intimidating Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's hairdo.
- Kumbh Mela: Meeting of Eras
Kumbh Mela is an immense display of faith - in tradition but also technology.
At 50, the Amul girl still campaigns for bread-and-butter issuesWhen butter is promoted by an adorable little girl in polka-dots whose frame shows no adverse signs of her lifelong endorsement, it is hard...
- Save the Elephant
Short-sightedness could reduce the grand animal to but a pachyderm
- Weather or not
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