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From Norman Mailer's 'fug' to Trump's Oval Office: How a four-letter word conquered the English languageThe F-word's journey from censored print to common usage is explored. Norman Mailer faced publisher edits in his debut novel, substituting ...- Quote of the day by Archimedes: 'Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world’Quote of the day: Archimedes words not just reflect a physical principle but also serve as a metaphor for intellectual empowerment. In scie...
- 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...
- The great American chutzpah 2025 remixThe United States, known for its self-proclaimed role as a global democracy guardian, faces criticism for its selective morality. Despite a...
- Work or calling?Christopher Wren, an English architect, observed three bricklayers working on St Paul's Cathedral. The first bricklayer was disinterested, ...
- 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 ...
- Lata Mangeshkar: The voice that moved IndiaA 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...
- Tie your camel firstPrayer 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...
- Investing lessons from the second covid year: A simple formula investors should followThe 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...
- Tending to the ghoos that lays golden eggsA Christmas Oratorio, who remarks, ‘Every crook will argue, “I like committing crimes. God likes forgiving them. Really the world is admira...
- Here’s tailor-made politics that will suit-boot everyoneThe Hispanic equivalent of the French sans-culottes were the descamisados (the shirtless) of Argentina, a pejorative employed by the landow...
- To upgrade from chauffeur knowledge to Planck knowledge, learn from others' investing experienceWhen 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, ...
- 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...
- RBI to pay fatter dividend post ban on Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notesThe 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...
- No magic wand: Why GDP growth may not exceed 5.5% in FY-15NSS data for 2011-12 shows employment stagnates when growth tapers off. If poor households spend on education, there are expectations of be...
- Changing words character in changing market demandsOnce shanghaied into alternative roles, prolonged, innovative (mis)use of words can literally change their character.
- Budget 2013: Here's how the rich can enjoy FM's new taxesHere’s the good news for the rich. By making imported luxury “flauntables” more expensive, finance minister P Chidambaram has helped them.
- P Chidambaram's (troubled) son Karti Chidambaram: A political heir with no clear career planEven those who know him realised the full extent of his business interests only after the media reports during recent weeks.
- Acts of history in ArabiaThere is a story about a dissident who, railing against an authoritarian regime in a busy city square, is promptly arrested and put in jail...
- Be vague enough to be in businessIn Sri Lanka a prominent astrologer was sent to prison for predicting President Rajapaksa's ouster. We have a similar tale with a more gris...
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