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Black day Rajiv Gandhi moments before he was killed by a suicide bomber in Sriperumbudur, near Chennai.

The spirit of survival

May 21, 1991 remains seared in the memory of police officials and their kin who were affected by the blast that took the life of Rajiv Gandhi

A doctor listening to his patient's heartbeat with a stethoscope

Checkmating a silent killer

Love, care, respect: the bottom line of a marriage

Vivek K. Agnihotri It’s a tribute to human ingenuity that the institution lasts

The games words play

Sandhya Sugumaran The way an image of a letter is processed by the brain is unique; hence, we have to go into the worlds of dyslexic children and see things the way they see them

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Art, the brain and the mind

George John More and more people are beginning to understand the role art can play in emotional well-being

Flutist and Pianist playing music

A different set ofnotes with music

R.W. Alexander Jesudasan Human beings face different kinds of sicknesses in life. While many overcome them, some succumb to one or the other. As the world progresses, concomitant problems surface in different ways, and as a result humanity doesn’t progress in the manner it could be expected to. While there are many stress-busters available to handle tensions in life, music seems to have an overriding and therapeutic effect on the stresses and sickness that humans endure. Music is thought to bring forth miracles by

The song of the open road recalled

Sudha Vidyasagar A walk across memory lane of a deserted path where you were all alone and sang to yourself heartily

Illustration: Sreejith R. Kumar

Where have the rains gone?

No chants, no prayers, no marriage of frogs can bring back the bygone days

The season of the king

It has been that time of the year. Despite doomsday predictions about a poor crop, from unseasonal rain, hail or wind, the local markets were awash

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The Dasara days

Coping with all that unsolicited advice

In senior heaven

The violinist in her

With and without footwear

The unusual terrorists about

A movie and a banal ending

Walking into the newly opened neighbourhood movie screen with my 19-year-old boy, little did I expect that three hours later it would turn out to be

Come, tell a story

The world traveller’s bucket list today includes admiring the Indian Ocean from the Maldives, observing Hindu temple architecture in Bali, relaxing at

Life as it comes

Living in the simplest manner

Recess as the basis of culture

The over-scheduled lives of the children need to be sorted out thoughtfully

Coffee and some questions

Some truths about ‘arranged marriage’ meetings between men and women

In pursuit of ‘Happy’

An affair to remember, with a little butterfly

In honour of women

Indian tradition has all the feminism that any progressive Hindu needs as an ideological ally for forward social movements

Through the birth and rebirth cycle all the way

How a child can teach you a multitude of things and rekindle your hidden fears or favourites of the past

From Stanfords to Blossom

The world is out there in Stanfords at three levels. Europe at the top and India lumped together with Australia at the bottom. The maps are

Destiny on a tiny mobile phone screen

With the device in hand, many users are turning daredevils

That irresistible itch, and the scratch to smother it

Perhaps no other physical sensation can compete with an itch in demanding immediate attention — through a scratch. Where there is an itch, there will

Those happy places

Healing havens that add bliss to life and help cope with vicissitudes

Death before dawn

Dozing off at the wheel is causing a growing number of casualties on Indian roads

The shawarma spectacle

The changing face of hunger and gratification in the age of app-based food delivery

True lies all

#MeToo should find a new resonance through the ranks of the harassed

The journeys of life

‘They’ and ‘Them’, the powers to reckon with as you venture out

The smarter seniors

How the elderly are increasingly adapting to the changing realities of life and learning to manage on their own

Through the seasons of childhood

The remembered experience of a different kind of growing up in another era

What text messaging is doing to us all

In search of a means of meaningful communication in the modern age

Divine music,humble singer

Come December, my distinguished friends from Colombo, the husband, a renowned cardiologist to the President of Sri Lanka, and his wife, the

Make in India: country liquor cameos

The forbidden and possibly risky pleasures from the hinterland constitute a never-ending list

Sniff, sniff: in hot pursuit of a deodorant fix

The story of one man’s almost maniacal hunt worldwide for the right smell and feel

The benefits of boredom

It can expand our imagination and open up creative pursuits

Romancing with karate, and getting the Shiko Dachi right

How the martial art can transform not just you but even your handwriting

60 may be the new 40, but it’s not all bliss

Post-retirement, you are your own master, but being out of work and growing old have their own share of problems

The chief guest, and an event sans a script

A slice from Mysuru’s easy-going, laid-back pace and manners from just 20 years ago

The bedtime story

The bedtime story never leaves you; for what is life without the melody of a tale

Stop fat-shaming

People come in various sizes and structures, and there is nothing to be ashamed of any body shape

The vacuous world of empty talk

Speaking unnecessarily for a long time has become the norm for social or political fame now

The scale of the problem

The constant battle of the bulge and the dieting blues that remain to be overcome

The mustard box mum to turn to

The cache of a frugal mother’s monthly savings always came to the rescue of this household

Why we cannot afford a TV set

The time saved is quality time

Don’t cook to share

The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence of inhumanity. — George Bernard

Gender equality and female empowerment as a norm

Sustainable development will be an impossibility without the potential contributions from women

ODF and the cows of New India

Why is only the human defecating in the open a problem? What about all the stray animals?

When the bubble burst

A senior citizen’s experience at a passport seva Kendra: all’s well that ends well

Caste System 2.0

The notions of caste hierarchy continue to threaten societal unity more than ever before

All in a teacher’s day

Instead of the usual hype over Teachers’ Day, can we have a dispassionate scrutinity of a teacher’s day?

The case of the missing shoes

It was 7 p.m., and I was hopelessly rummaging through the sand-pit. I could barely see, and kept getting poked by the meddling bushes. My little one

From bookworm to ‘cookworm’

When the kitchen became first a tough run and then a thoroughly enjoyable pursuit

Dealing with an ever-evolving vocabulary

Catching up with the lingo of the young can sometimes be a challenge, but that is how the world goes

In celebration of woman power

Why women should get their space, their freedom in all spheres of life

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