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The fiction of work sharing

Shashikala Sitaram

Men haven’t taken to housework as memes would have you believe.

A yen for multi-tasking

A plateful of warm gestures

Sumit Paul Good intentions stay with you and egg you on to reciprocate

Free for all

Sukumaran C.V. “As social media are awash with fake, flawed and skewed news and views, and absolute falsity, the problem is what to believe and what not to.”

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The fault in our Stars

Mohammed Ansar Celebrities may be good at what they do, but when it comes to responding to a public issue, they may not live up to our expectations

Common Myna bird on fence.

Warbles that break the reverie

Vijaya Bharat Bring out the field glasses, as the lockdown has made birds feel free to fly back into territories long abandoned by them

3D water drop on white isolated with clipping path

Boys do cry

Siddhartha Panda There are some subconscious cues transmitted and received by such people seeking bonding.

human hands using sanitizer to clean himself

Loving the corona pause

The virus has its followers: children, astrologers, spiritual gurus ...

The call of the Wild

When birds and blue bulls reclaim their land, one can only lurk in fear

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The precious monotony

The miracles of life and the tragedies of death

Of love and the melon metaphor

That order and peace amidst the seeming chaos

With next-door neighbours like these…

Bicycle diaries

Searching for those spectacles

A possible pointer for future start-ups, chiefly for the benefit of senior citizens.

A flawed concept

Urban centres should move from the concept of storm water drains to ‘storm water harvesting’

Daddies and those household chores and tasks

They are yet to catch up fully, but contribute a great deal to household chores while pursuing their careers

The promise of a sunset — and a sunrise

There are ways to overcome the empty nest syndrome and offset the inevitable loneliness it brings

Dreams and the reality

Asinine as they might be, these are visions from deep within

Over a cup of coffee

The Spanish newspaper Mundo Deportivo recently published details of a research project. Its finding was that men generally, and often uncannily,

A child without the pronouns

Is this the big piece of wisdom?

Life makes the decisions

If you assume you make them, you may be wrong: life has its own sequence and ways

A daughter on a special father

International Women’s Day (which fell on March 8 this year) celebrated the achievements of women and reminded us of the feminists who fought on our

The elusive satisfaction

Life’s distractions and meanwhile the pursuit of happiness

Homemaker’s jobs

My father casually walked into the house. After knocking down the contents of the newspaper superficially and making a quick assessment of the garden,

Talking as performing art, ending social media introversion

Ingenuity, creativity and practice are essential ingredients of this engaging act too

Recrafting Indian education

Something very right seemed to have been happening in education 400 years ago. What can we reclaim now?

Running, the best medicine

You’ll be surprised by the many benefits it bring, at any imaginable age

The many perils and few pleasures of modern-day dating exercises

“I’m looking for an interesting conversationalist; someone who is curious about the world,” reads the matrimonial profile of a Bengaluru-based lawyer.

The seniors are here

Increasingly they are finding their feet, growing wings very late in life

Ode to the blackboard

It will continue to have a lasting role in teaching and learning

A changing ministry of care and cure

In the matter of patient-doctor relationships, where are we now?

Those wars that we don’t desire

Lives are at stake, and the kin of the warriors fret

In Kanyakumari, then

Early 1940s! What a long time ago! It was the time of British India and the Indian princely states. And it was the time of World War II and severe

The women in a man’s life

Some women I have scorned, some I have loved. This is to all the women I love… Among the many, the betel leaf fragrance of my grandmother’s fingers as

The magic and the thrills in ordinary journeys

Every train trip can be an adventure, exhilarating yet painful at the same time

Caring with dignity and empathy

As age and disability catch up, the narrative of life undergoes a once-inconceivable change

A race to nowhere

Feeling the heat? You should stop and rethink your choices

Aligning with the young

We should be able to accept our children for what they are

Where gender prejudices reign

The joint family system and some attitudes that sometimes stem from it

Beyond bread and butter

An account of a time of throbbing pain and acute realisation of what’s going on around you

Sapper caste, Sir!

One of the Indian Army’s combat support arms is the Corps of Engineers, of which one component is my regiment, the Madras Sappers, known formally as

A home shared with pigeons and crows

The birds had found a comfortable perch on the balcony, and it was a tough call

Backpacks with punch

One of the travails of modern-day travel, is getting periodically buffeted by backpacks, hauled typically by a young person, both while boarding and

Warmth, up close and personal

The cheer that a lovingly hand-knitted apparel can bring you

The Year of Moderation

Humankind needs to moderate its consumption excesses now, and save the earth

What a pharmacist can help with

They can aid patients in making prudent choices in terms of medication and dosage

Are queues only for wimps?

The sports utility vehicle whizzed past my car as if the driver was trying to intimidate me, only to slow down again about 20 metres ahead of me.

Radical law or magical nanny?

Is there something systemically warped in our style of nurturing young ones?

Of things lost

The ‘lost things’ invariably hold a special place in our lives. We don’t even remember certain important dates and valuable things, but the lost

A place for the woman

Look at the glaringly huge gap between men and women in terms of work done

That grilling is finally on

What happens in the closed rooms?

The truly big questions in the classrooms today

Looks like our education system might be routinely missing the wood for the trees

For a picnicking people

It’s time we got started on a culture of enjoyable outings

The gaseous state

Some assumptions may be terribly wrong

Some memories, without any sugar-coating

The sweet tooth had to be countered somehow, and what better way than to consume its antithesis!

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