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Footloose on the border, a nomadic life

Hari Arayammakul

In a frontier village, a family lived in tents unmindful of the war cry

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Be open to open book exams

Ganesh Shankar Mishra

Life affirming: The baobab tree in Jamshedpur.

Espying the tree of life in steel city

Vijaya Bharat The baobab stood there with bare branches, its historic significance lost

₹10 in the summer of 1962

Vivek Row During the summer holidays that last two months or more, parents are under great pressure to keep their children occupied. The pressure was even more in small towns 50 or 60 years ago.It was in such a township of the Bhilai Steel Plant in May 1962 that I spent two weeks of my summer holidays at my sister’s place. The township was not yet fully developed and avenues for amusements were few. I had no problem as I would spend the day reading. My sister’s friend living in the township was, however,

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Four trains in one night, a journey into the unknown

K. R. Rao Even some 50 years ago, Karaikudi was not a familiar place for someone from outside Tamil Nadu

Setting transplant goals

Viney Kirpal With a donor heart, a 70-year-old got back her vim and vigour

3D illustration of a rubber stamp with the word compromise printed on a brown paper with the text party one and two

Mend fences, keep the conversation going

Rishi Kanna There is no better time than the present to renew broken relations

Happy smiling woman looks out from window traveling by train on most picturesque train road in Sri Lanka

Let the mind fly, take the train

Amar Nath Singh

A flight cuts travel time, but takes away the charm of travel on terra firma

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A pilgrimage, all digital

Legal justice in exchange for innocence

Looking back at eighty

Flying pains

The stars and the fallen stars

The paradox of traffic perils

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

Well, it’s complicated

On the state of modern life and times

Between the two distinct hemispheres of the brain

Twins. They had their own ways of doing things; at times barely agreeing with each other. Albeit they were identical, intricacies and layers of

The tiny warrior-goddess

A paediatric surgeon narrates the case of a tenacious child who overcame health issues, and ruminates over the state of the health care system

Swachh Bharat? Really?

What is possible, and what actually happens, in our public spaces

The life cycle of homo sapiens

Is the epidemic of setting and meeting expectations getting worse by the day?

Living with grace and dignity, beyond disability

I first recited St. Francis of Assisi’s poignant prayer (a.k.a. the Peace Prayer) sincerely but without much thought as a teenager at the St. Francis

Decisions, decisions… and the fallout

The dilemmas and the trilemmas that confront you on a daily basis in life could be quite a bunch of challenges

The matchmaker

‘You mean, it’s your parents who decide and select who you’ll marry and spend the rest of your life?’ My American friend’s voice sounded as if I came

When egos clash and flash

The male mindset in the workplace very often needs some balancing out

The Dasara days

“Firecrackers! We need lots of them!” I remember the joy and excitement on my grandfather’s face and in his voice when he told me this. It is like it

Coping with all that unsolicited advice

What is it that makes some people thrive on dishing out counsel of all genres?

In senior heaven

The elderly have never had it so good: just look at a few instances.

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