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Glory days: K. Natwar Singh (right) with Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and Cuban President Fidel Castro at the Non-Aligned Summit in New Delhi on March 7, 1983.

No nervous nineties for veteran diplomats

K. Natwar Singh

Here is a snapshot of a few former IFS officers who don’t live in the past

Slow lane Gently pamper yourselves in the middle of nature with peace and tranquillity.

Smitten by cottagecore

Make a great first impression handwritten in the note.

Is the first impression the last?

Anuj Anil Narkhede All is not lost as frequent positive interactions and demonstrating competence can help

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Purging prejudices

I. Satya Sundaram They do not hurt others as much as they hurt us physically, mentally and spiritually

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It seems that mice are intelligent mammals who don’t easily forget their agony.

The Mousetrap

Hari Arayammakul Can rodents develop Stockholm Syndrome and become empathetic to their captors?

It is said that the best way to reach the heart is via the stomach.

Winning hearts with food

Rani Devasar Living it up with the spices and flavours of India in Geneva

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Gym and a sinful cake

K. Thammayya Udupa To be avoided for its richness, but to be relished for the love

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Digitally divided homes

With just one laptop, online teaching has become a source of daily arguments and fights

Fresh cup of coffee.

A cup of joe, a lot of joy

A bad day with coffee is better than a good day without

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Purging prejudices

Is the first impression the last?

The Mousetrap

Gym and a sinful cake

No nervous nineties for veteran diplomats

Winning hearts with food

Smitten by cottagecore

The best option is to escape to a rustic environment

Digitally divided homes

With just one laptop, online teaching has become a source of daily arguments and fights

Making the most of WFH!

Muting your mic and switching off the video give rise to umpteen possibilities.

Born from a star

Atoms forged deep inside a star and expelled during its death have been co-opted to become our bodies and the things that we need to live.

A sustainable world

Smoke or pollution, I was not aware of their presence in the village nor their potential as the greatest menace to mankind.

Unlocking the party spirit

With more avenues reopening, relearn the vital skill of partying

The art of letting go

As life evolves, we move to the next level only if we give up old habits and passions

Eat a pumpkin plant whole

In Odia cuisine, every single part of it is devoured

Machines in white coats

AI should never dehumanise medicine, nor replace a commiserating clinician

C.R. Rao, a doyen of statistics, turns 100

C.R. Rao shaped the dramatic growth of mathematical statistics in the 20th century, refining and restructuring it from its somewhat ad hoc origins

A cup of joe, a lot of joy

A bad day with coffee is better than a good day without

After all, what are doctors for!

Empathy and connect is half the battle won

The Internet challenge

Confined inside home, we try to break the monotony by taking up tough viral tasks on social media.

The dog named Lila

It will take a lifetime to emulate a dog’s unconditional heart.

The forced pause is a time for redemption

Life after pandemic should ensure collective well-being and a better work-life balance

Towards gender equality

The Supreme Court has set the record straight on the contentious issue of coparcenary rights of daughters.

The nowhere children

The educational needs of students in remote parts of India have suffered without digital connectivity.

Seeing through difficult times

It’s a tall order for visually challenged students to shift to online learning

The debt we owe to our teachers

If one thinks teaching is easy, he or she should definitely give it a try once in their lifetime

Books and the pandemic

Our texts always speak to the challenges of human adversity and how one addresses it

In praise of nothing

Could nothing change? Would nothing remain nothing if it changed?

The romance of railway journeys

Trains, affordable and comfortable, remain the popular mode of travel

Train to India

They held hands and wept, and both knew Partition had made it their last meeting

The missing bark

We and our canine partner had developed a near perfect relationship

The Caribbean pennants

“What are those flags,” I asked. “They are in houses belonging to Hindus,” my young colleague replied.“Is there any religious or cultural

No silly point in life

There are only sixers and bouncers — of the ecstasy of victory and agony of defeat

Shencottah days

In the 1950s, the railway station had steam locos, a turntable, and good refreshment rooms

Captivating Himalayas

The splendour and magnanimity of these mountains are beyond words

Teaching the brain

The greatest challenge is that we have to prepare children for an unpredictable world

The wrong pair

A lesson in customer service from a mix-up of shoes

Gaming the lockdown fads

How to do it all without lifting a finger

What’s in a name, anyway?

In school, a new girl with a ‘different’ name leads to a realisation of fluid identities

Ticket to travails

Every day, the windows opened at 6 a.m., but people would queue up from 4 a.m.

Sidelined by COVID-19?

With the pandemic sweeping across the globe, treatment of non-communicable diseases has taken a beating

Lost at the mall

A grotesque monument to a decrepit neon god who holds no real boon for us, only lies and lustre meant to keep us in thrall

Was Captain Planet right?

Both right and wrong because individual action does matter, but it cannot save the world

A station like no other

The high point of train journeys during school vacations and later was the time spent at Madras Central

The idiot box

Looking at most of the programmes being shown on TV, this appear to be an apt definition

For introverts, a dream come true

With fewer people around and all in masks, there is no need to smile or talk

A unisex recipe

In a country as obsessed with food as ours, it’s unfortunate that cooking is associated with one gender

When the running hand dropped out of the race

They keyboard is faster, but not as effective in retaining information as writing is

Produce of the city

As the pandemic disrupts food supply, cities worldwide are thinking of urban farming as a solution

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