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Return of the native

Kavitha Yaga Buggana

Some cultural-linguistic transitions, and identities subsumed by symbols

Worrying works wonders, too

Jairam N. Menon

Illnesses, medical issues on the silver screen

Sunil Furtado Some vignettes and tales from those unforgettable medical tales from the movies

All on the same page

Mini Krishnan When the English translation of Kalki’s Ponniyin Selvan came out in the late-1990s, I met someone who was barely aware that an international game of cricket was being played. So completely lost was she in 11th century Chozhanaadu that the roars and groans of her neighbours and the household passed her by. John Ruskin described books as the life-blood of their creators but omitted to say they also enter our bloodstreams and become part of our emotional DNA. The books we read gradually take over

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The gendered unfairness

Prabha Sridevan The wronged women and their limited options

The inevitable tryst with dust

Payoj Gupta The omipresent, ubiquitous nuisance and health hazard reigns supreme

What the mirror told her

Anjali Joseph It was an afternoon two years ago when I looked myself in a mirror for more than 30 seconds at a time for the first time in all my born days. It was the consequence of something that had happened that morning, when I was seated across a cup of tea in a restaurant with the man who confessed his love to me. I made every effort to wear a don’t-give-a-damn expression, and shot the question. Why me? “I like your hair, your long neck, and feel like I wanna kiss you on your gum when you smile,” he

Lessons from pets

Chitra Muralidharan

“Take care of Omi,” is what my daughter tells me each day as she leaves for school. Omi is our dachshund and is, according to her, the fourth member

One man’s trash, another’s treasure

Shefali Bharati

The fate of deleted data on the Web remains a complicated issue

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Raising the bar

New year, old ways

The road to cleaner air

All on the same page

Illnesses, medical issues on the silver screen

Worrying works wonders, too

Return of the native

Some cultural-linguistic transitions, and identities subsumed by symbols

The inevitable tryst with dust

The omipresent, ubiquitous nuisance and health hazard reigns supreme

What the mirror told her

It was an afternoon two years ago when I looked myself in a mirror for more than 30 seconds at a time for the first time in all my born days. It was

The gendered unfairness

The wronged women and their limited options

Lessons from pets

“Take care of Omi,” is what my daughter tells me each day as she leaves for school. Omi is our dachshund and is, according to her, the fourth member

Crumbs of memory from a mother’s kitchen

A variety of dishes made with love, unique in taste and spiced up with thoughtfully added ingredients

A pilgrimage, all digital

If I had any doubt within myself about the utility of technology and innovation, that was put to rest with a recent travel experience, which was 90%

Legal justice in exchange for innocence

Children and young adults who are forced to face the Indian legal system need to be helpedAt the age of sixteen I signed my name in full and accepted

Looking back at eighty

I never thought I would live this long, to reach my eighties. Now I realise that eighty is not a number, not a milestone or a stage, but the beginning

Flying pains

An ever-nervous traveller seeks to cope with those daunting airport terminals

The stars and the fallen stars

Classifying and corralling schoolchildren based merely on their academic performance could backfire

The paradox of traffic perils

The more you seek to manage and control the fiend, the worse it gets

One man’s trash, another’s treasure

The fate of deleted data on the Web remains a complicated issue

Twenty minutes is all that it takes

The tale of those held hostage by time

Matters of life and death

Dilemmas people invariably face when it is time to let go

The rascal recovered

The story of an extraordinary rooster that walked tall

Of smokers and ex-smokers

The testimony of an escape artist who is reaping the benefits of quitting the vice.

Procrastination, the thief of time

Ways to manage and tackle the mental blocks that make you postpone tasks.

Those special women

Some ‘specimens’ from around you who you need to learn to cope with

For the retired folk

Those who superannuate should seek to live in the present, without dwelling on the past

What’s in a name?

Some suitable options in the season of new labels

Number troubles

This is a tale from the 1940s. My father’s young friend Ramachandran (Chandru, for short), born and brought up in Madras, went to Bhilai, having

The clothes manoeuvre

A victim of work-load juggling in retirement

A reunion and some perspective after all of our decades

Old memories, heady anecdotes, touching nostalgia... when batch-mates at a medical college get together

When all the world is a stage…

The experience behind and on the dramatic platform can be quite exciting and unique

The return of the centaurs

The new-age mythological creatures stake claim to uninhibited freedom in today’s urban wilderness, often with disdain to the rights of others who share the space

Escape the corset

Cosmetics cost a bomb and get you obsessed with them. Here’s a simple way out.

For a world sans diabetes

Diabetes has become a public health problem, and this is particularly so in India where almost 20% of all people with diabetes in the world live. More

All the way from little Tippalakatta to mighty Calcutta

A lesson in adaptation, accepting life as it is, with courage, fortitude and a commonsensical approach

Those ferocious genes that should ride on

The grandmother as a shaping influence, imparting life-strengths and negating gender stereotypes

Curious contrivance on your wrist

A savvy nonagenarian’s experience with a tech device that tries some hand-holding

The gecko and the cat

Northcote Parkinson said, ‘Work expands to fill time.’ I modify this to include the afternoon nap too. So that day I got up from my nap, which had

For a country of storytellers

A fourth dimension to aid tourism

For Tamil cuisine, away in Pakistan

I often have to visit Pakistan where I teach Islamic Theology, Koranic Studies, Persian and Arabic. Since I’m nuts on idli, dosa, rasam and sambar,

Gossip, sweet & sour

The nattering classes have so much going for them

The gardener’s exit

Plants were all that he had cared for, and he retained that love.

The ganja debate

To legalise it or not, is an issue that ought be considered

For the love of chai

An aficionado of the beverage puts the experience in perspective

To dye or not to: living with a dilemma

The arguments in support of both the options are strong. But at the end of the day, it’s a personal preference

To enjoy the joy of ageing with grace

Some tips and tricks to carry on healthily and happily enough in the senior years of life

The Great Indian Exam

How the tyranny of competition weighs down on these candidates

The sidewalk saga

How the wheels of public works move

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