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A river’s birthday

Why not celebrate it, if it leads to its conservation?

Emotions set. Girl hiding face behind signboard with drawn smileys. Collage of indifferent, winking, happy, surprised, and sad emoticons.

The name game

Sarangapani Bashyam

Dandi March Statue.

The town of many Gandhians

Sujith Sandur They were recognised, revered and honoured in every function

New Delhi - Board at railway station, India

Station names!

Shankar Gopalkrishnan The erstwhile Bombay-to-Madras rail route was filled with station names that were a mouthful!

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Shrimp aviyal, anyone?

Resmi Prakash A potluck with layers of caste and class

Unwanted plant grows in front of a mustard field

Mind the weeds

Himani Datar Tenacious and unconquerable, but destructive

Men's mechanical watch on background

The special timepiece

Sripriya M. “No legacy is so rich as honesty.” So goes a famous Shakespearean quote.

Showing the door to ‘Sir’ and ‘Madam’

While the colonial salutations are being given a quiet burial, it will be interesting to watch what comes up in their place

The domestic dog is a member of the genus Canis, which forms part of the wolf-like canids, and is the most widely abundant terrestrial carnivore

Give a dog a bad name

D.V. Guruprasad

The scare of canines returns after a mongrel bites on a morning walk

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Cup cakes and coffee

Homecoming

Education and humility

Not at face value

Station names!

The town of many Gandhians

The name game

Today, parents select names easily pronounceable by people of different cultures and nations

A river’s birthday

Why not celebrate it, if it leads to its conservation?

Not just a profession

Teachers need empathy to teach children in their initial stages of learning

An accidental attendant

Watching the proceedings in the orthopaedics outpatient department of a hospital

Back to where it began

Have you talked to the doctor who held you in her arms before any other human being did?

A wedding series

A court marriage followed by an ‘official’ marriage and a religious tying of the knot

The special timepiece

“No legacy is so rich as honesty.” So goes a famous Shakespearean quote.

Mind the weeds

Tenacious and unconquerable, but destructive

Shrimp aviyal, anyone?

A potluck with layers of caste and class

A policy note that renders POCSO Act vague

The ambiguity of categorisation and misrepresentation of data cause concern, as it determines interventions and budget allocation

Painted mops

Nowadays, even the young are dyeing their hair, but not because of any gray strands

Is the Internet making us stupid?

Without giving us time to think, it shows us multiple options to choose from

The shortcut bug

In today’s rat race, who has time to type every word in a text message?

An Eiffel moment

A smile at the top of the tower which proved that human emotions can cross barriers of language, culture and geography

Catching the beat

World Heart Day campaign is to harness the power of digital health to prevent and manage cardiovascular disease

Give a dog a bad name

The scare of canines returns after a mongrel bites on a morning walk

Showing the door to ‘Sir’ and ‘Madam’

While the colonial salutations are being given a quiet burial, it will be interesting to watch what comes up in their place

The many ‘lines’ in our lives

Bottomline, bodyline, neckline, hemline and now the ubiquitous mask line

To diet or not to diet

Diet changes or exercise should be practical and easily doable and should help in weight loss or gain gradually

The tales of Kaptanpalem

Memories of a sleepy village and a rambling dilapidated mansion situated in part-orchard, part-rolling fields

Preventing suicide among medical students

Teaching the art of acceptance and kindness, application of empathy and generosity may be singularly helpful

Looking beyond the corporate gender equity

What needs attention is self-image of women and their dissociation with sexuality

Bald and bold

Whatever you do, don’t tear your hair — you can’t afford it

Gandhiji in the Caribbean

The Mahatma’s practice of non-violence and opposition to indentureship are highly respected in Trinidad and Tobago

Hot off the oven

Exotic home-baked cakes and sentimental videos add to birthday celebrations

AI and education

Will edutech firms be able to tap on to sophisticated AI-technologies?

Morning scene

Generations of walkers come on to the streets, taking in the freshness of the day

Craving the brew

Coffeeholics never call it an addiction, for only a true coffee lover knows what every sip of it means

Not meme, it’s a cruel joke

They may say that after all, it is just “innocent” fun.

A sweet victory

The beginning was tough, they obviously knew how to maximise points.

The trekker never ages

And in a long trek, it is the tortoise, not the rabbit, that has the last laugh

The thought processes on a private university campus

Pandemic changes perceptions, with students feeling that state is needed for collective good and their well-being

Ode to those who stand and deliver

For standing so long in class, teachers gain a combination of back pain, joint pain, swollen feet and varicose veins

Social networking back then

People shared stories when the came to use the rare landline in the house

Market artists

Hundreds of farmers attracted jugglers, snake charmers and acrobats who performed to entertain them

The good teacher

One who makes a lasting impact on your life, one who make you a better person

Mind and medicine

The cost of such running around is nowadays borne by your insurance companies

Afghan days

It was just a sea of snow, there was no glimpse of any city or even the airport

Machines in bad company

Dealing with a vending machine is like feeding your one-year- old child.

A syllabus for emotional stability

Teachers’ Day is a time to think about what children and their educators have to face together in an ‘educational arms race’

A polyglot’s plight

For someone carrying the lexicon of so many languages in the mind, confusion is a certainty in cosmopolitan India

Memory matters

Forgetfulness only makes most of our lives interesting; otherwise, we will get stuck in a time warp

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