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Zooming in on the background

When work moved home and occupied personal spaces around the world, choices of backdrop started to haunt us

Businesswoman be trapped in hourglass and sinking in sand. Expired deadline, business time management

A river’s lesson

Sudhirendar Sharma

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Battling old age blues

George N. Netto The ageing process inevitably renders one forgetful, absent-minded and myopic

The floral carpet

Shobha Menon A few days later, the flowers were on their way out, and the delicately interconnected seeds began to appear.

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Milestone in heritage management

Sathiyamurthy L.S. A June 7 landmark verdict by the Madras High Court provides many solutions for safeguarding idols and temple jewels from theft and smuggling

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A borderless world

Aakash Bajpai The Internet has given people-to-people contact a boost

A plucky rescue amid the pandemic

Sripriya M. How an injured bird was nursed back to health

The summer mango hunt

Sinduja Potheri Krishnakumar

Despite the wide variety of the fruit, one can’t have enough of it

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Worth its salt

The nuances of the essential ingredient

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The unexpected bundle of happiness

A passion for the beautiful game

A leap of faith

Khaki tales

The floral carpet

Battling old age blues

A river’s lesson

Ingenious ways of resolving societal problems come naturally to us

Zooming in on the background

When work moved home and occupied personal spaces around the world, choices of backdrop started to haunt us

Hard to digest

Navigating through a South Indian wedding lunch served on a banana leaf is difficult for the uninitiated

The dowry menace

The most dangerous thing about dowry is that it is prevalent even after being banned by law

Knowing your privilege

The whole point of being aware of it is to prevent you from becoming entitled

Bard and wit

Lack of wit attracted some of the sharpest rebukes from Shakespeare’s characters

A borderless world

The Internet has given people-to-people contact a boost

A plucky rescue amid the pandemic

How an injured bird was nursed back to health

Milestone in heritage management

A June 7 landmark verdict by the Madras High Court provides many solutions for safeguarding idols and temple jewels from theft and smuggling

The extended family

Friends are the family we choose, and the pandemic stands testament to this reality

Winds of hope and despair

The melancholy that springs in the heart over the loss of the golden olden days of music

The born artists

For a peep into one’s artistic spark, be prepared to experiment with intellect and the external world as laboratories

Umbrella days

With the monsoon, there is a frantic search for old, dismantled brollies

Pensioners’ predicament

How to be useful and not be a ‘nuisance’

The melee at level crossings

Once the gates are opened, all driving etiquette takes a back seat and it’s a free for all

Worth its salt

The nuances of the essential ingredient

The summer mango hunt

Despite the wide variety of the fruit, one can’t have enough of it

Choices and consequences

Most decisions are a mixed bag — win some, lose some, and we cannot have it all

Counting the doses

A dog bite amid the pandemic and the prospects appear grim

Speaking to the trees

To understand that trees and plants do have memories and even insects can dream, we have to unlearn many anthropocentric thoughts

Keeping abreast of change

In current circumstances, success rate of any business or individual is directly proportional to the speed of adaptation

Reading then and now

Children these days prefer to watch a YouTube video on a subject rather than read up on it

Vaccines for the immunocompromised

Organ recipients and those with serious ailments are at a crossroads

100 years of insulin discovery

Banting and Best produced a dramatic success story a century ago, giving hope to people with diabetes

A social menace

Dowry is a heinous, punishable crime, but it persists even in the 21st century

Language and levity

Speaking without a care sometimes land you in a spot of bother

Mask matters

They were one closely associated with robbers, kidnappers and criminal elements

Remembering R.L. Bhatia

Even as he adorned gubernatorial positions, he lived a simple life, reaching out to the destitute

Two kinds of people

The first time they came in, I cringed, as my spotless floors were soon covered in dust.

The drongo in the window

The little bird with rare fighting qualities breaks the lockdown stupor

A strong network

Talk away, especially when all of us are locked in our homes

The crow’s message

When to take it easy and let others put the shoulder to the wheel

The silence of the lockdown

Hear the clock ticking and the flutter of unturned calendar pages

A staggered haircut

A slice of life from the desert kingdom

Say it like you mean it

What if there was a feature to add tone and context to what we want to say?

The fall from heights

Grisly spinal injuries sustained by falls from high structures sadly have not been given its due attention

Upended routines

The second wave swept like a tsunami; many became part of the disturbing statistics of cases and casualties

A pet by accident

The small hole in one of the tomatoes in the basket set the alarm bells ringing. It was clear evidence of a rodent bite.

The wedding beats

Conducting a South Indian wedding without nagaswaram is like celebrating Deepavali without lights

Caring for the elderly

The state of senior citizens is pathetic. Loneliness and neglect affect them badly

The riddle of life

Let’s bring back the old riddles to survive the dark days

Pandemic life in apartments

Physical distancing is difficult despite best efforts, due to space constraints and families living in clusters

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