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Word of the day: RamshackleRamshackle is a word for things that look old and unstable. It describes buildings, vehicles, and objects in poor condition. The term sugge...
All along the three Guianas, where Calypso meets Mahabharat under starburst skiesTravelling across this South American region - through Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana - you savour African, Dutch, British, and 'Hindustan...
Why the draft telecom bill falls short of the new law India’s dynamic digital economy needsLicensing communication apps is a bad idea. You cannot raise capital for a project that might not get a licence on completion. No licence c...
What’s in a name? Go on then, say it with me: Pa-La-ShiHow calling a place by its ‘English name’ can drive some nativists round the bend
Sunday Poser: Rahul Dravid ko gussa kyoon aata hain?The new Cred television commercial starring Jim (Sarbh) and Jammy (Rahul Dravid) is like a mini punk song - it goes by in a flash and doesn...
Nandigram diary 2: Field trip to a school townThe ‘A+L+M+B+M+M’ on the wall seems to hold some kind of mystical clue to what infleuntial cleric Abbas Siddiqui – who said on Thursday tha...
The Birth of a New Beginning During a Pandemic“I named my son ‘Aham’ which means ‘important’ because he’s given a new beginning to my life, something to hold on to during these dark hou...
India’s 600,000 strong army of virus-hunting women goes on a two-day strikeAfter months of harassment, underpayment and lack of protection from infection, about 600,000 of the country’s one million Accredited Socia...
Yashasvi Jaiswal’s IPL dream debut on hold, sketches during self-isolation to relaxJaiswal has also had a chance to speak to his idols Sachin Tendulkar and Wasim Jaffer.
Pakistan is supporting IS-Khorasan in Afghanistan: Srinjoy BoseSrinjoy Bose, currently visiting research fellow at Australian National University, served as an international election observer during the...
At Aligarh village, shrine to British soldiers killed in 1857 freedom struggleIn a strange twist of fate, nine British soldiers who died fighting rebels in the 1857 freedom struggle near this village are now worshippe...
Arunachal Pradesh village famous for organic spices still lacks a roadIt has enough spices to ensure a better living for its residents but no road to take them forward.
The wackiest whispers and murmurs in corporate corridors and policy parloursFond of tidbits about the wackiest goings-on in the country's corporate corridors and policy parlours? Here are the latest ones doing the r...
Taxi services across the world can’t be ranked at allRating cab service in India alongside taxi services across the world, as a survey has, thus is like comparing apples and oranges.
Low expectations an advantage for Rahul GandhiRahul Gandhi has always had as much power as he wanted to exercise. The difference after Jaipur is that the Regent, Sonia Gandhi, will star...
Friday the 13th, for whom?A DMK defeat would mean an existential crisis for the faction-ridden Karunanidhi family, political hostility and so a docile life within th...
- Captured Terrorist: Ajmal Amir Kasav tells his story
The 21-yr-old captured fidayeen was born at Faridkot village (pop 3,000), Dipalpur tehsil, of Okara district in Punjab province, 50 km east...
- Budget ought to spur green investments
The budget needs to have clear-cut fiscal incentives in place to incentivise investments and outlays that are ‘green’ and environmentally f...
- In India Dalits pin economic hopes on gods
An hour's drive from the palatial headquarters of India's "untouchables" leader, her talk of eight-lane highways and birthday gifts for the...
- 'Middle class is key to prosperity in India'
Explaining his presence at the economic summit, Sadhguru said human well-being still remained his main objective; what was attractive about...