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Passive emissions from a cigarette produce an overall effect far more toxic than the mainstream smoke

The Nawab of Pataudi. It was one of India's greatest triumphs...with a most remarkable man leading the way... (Published in The Sportstar on October 19, 1985) PHOTO: THE HINDU ARCHIVES

A Nawab, an Englishman and a maestro

beautiful panorama of Himalayan mountains at sunset, Pokhara, Nepal

The world’s most beautiful mountain?

Baljit Singh Siniolchu overlooks the Zemu glacier and is in the shadow of Kanchenjunga

Writing in notebook. Close-up.

Turning the page again

Viney Kirpal The difference in cultures was unbridgeable.

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Basket with ripe organic vegetables carrot beetroot and zucchini

From farm to plate

Ashok Balakrishna Find a small patch to grow vegetables and have freshly grown produce in the kitchen

Touch wood

Aakash Bajpai Working around a ritual during a wedding in the dead of night

Elderly spouses sitting on couch at home planning budget check bills cheques, computer, documents and calculator on coffee table, close up cropped concept image, couple manage family expenses concept

Stranded in the digital world

Jayam Anantharaman Life has become very difficult for the elderly who are not in the know of online transactions

Father's mother's and baby's hand

The question of trust

Is the older generation more trustworthy?

The TDC-12, India’s first digital computer.

The first big byte

C.D. MurthyS. Thiagarajan

2021 marks the 50th anniversary of the manufacture of the first digital computer in India

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A de-cluttering emptiness

Undying frenzy amid lockdown

Mindful distancing

The social media trap

The dulled click-clack

Doctors at the vanguard

The memories we leave behind

Be the beloved for those around us, be the light of someone’s life

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This article has been withdrawn from publication since parts of it were found to have been plagiarised

Luminous Ether

Back then, radio sets were a status symbol, owned only by the privileged

For the love of nature

How a lover of forests and wildlife instilled the passion in his children

Overhauling research in universities

Creativity and originality of thought take a beating in these institutions, affecting research

The COVID cycle

Governments have the opportunity to shore up their credibility and regain the trust of citizens

Why we lie

There are multiple reasons but generally people lie to get more of something or not to lose something

Campus capers: just for laughs and thrills

When funny pranks and youthful derring-do set a campus alive

Age is in the eye of the beholder

You are considered young or old solely on the basis of who is assessing you

O death, where is thy sting

Musings on life’s larger lesson while spending time in quarantine

Save the hugs for now

Social distancing is the new norm; hence physical demonstration of love is verboten now

Pedalling on a dream

A late entrant to the pleasures of cycling now rules the tracks like a master

Jugaad the American way

How the wife of a U.S. Ambassador and an envoy himself introduced simple techniques to help Indian workers

The searing summer

The season now is merciless because of the wanton destruction of the environment

Changing the story line

We have stories that hail vengeance but not retribution, celebrate aggression but not humility, glorify nirvana in next birth as opposed to living well

War and peace begin at home

Most films and electronic games bubble with violence and show killing as a sport

When medicine loses the healing ‘touch’

When physical examination becomes obsolete, the doctor-patient relationship sags

Coronavirus | The worst of times, the best of times

COVID-19 has put the fear of death in many of us. But while some find the prospects frightening, it’s frightfully attractive for others.Like all good

Whither education

Greater use of technology, with proliferating online content and classes, has made education less of a collective pursuit

Calls without purpose

The fact that someone thought of you on a Sunday afternoon and called you up for no reason is a great feeling

Parting with personal data

With smart devices, we trade our privacy in myriad ways, without realising that we are giving away so much of our details at an uncalculated future cost

Catching up on a moonscape

Bumping into a friend from college in Ladakh in an Army tent 23 years later

The jack in the box

Every trip back to the U.S., I carry sweets for my friends and family. This time too, I packed 500 g of Mysore Pak in my hand baggage and flew from

The paddler in a sari

Meet nonagenarian Kunhimalu, a table tennis ace of the Madras of the 1960s

A bad patch

TB is still not falling fast enough, and progress is slow in meeting the targets

United colours of divided neighbours

Pakistani cities erupt in colours during Holi, with the day off for students to celebrate the festival

Anger has unhappy consequences

The first outcome of anger is the harsh words that will affect the other person deeply. The injury never heals

The beauty of everyday moments

How cancer gave lessons in cherishing life and finding happiness in little things

The vicissitudes of a lovely day

A bright, happy morning is followed by the roller coaster of life and work

Cholera in a temple town

With a floating population and many hotels and food joints, the situation had to be contained as quickly as possible

Staying happy after retirement

People die not because of illness or injury — they die because they simply lose the will to live

Battle against COVID-19

It’s not just a health crisis but also an economic and national security emergency waiting to strike

Not all book buyers are ardent readers

Some travel hundreds of miles to buy books, but would never open a page of them

When appalams were a family affair

Everyone had work to do, and everyone’s task was equally important in getting a month’s supply of the snack ready

Why child is the father of man

Often, people turn ever more childlike as they add numbers to their age

Dance of danger on the roads

The cost of our culpable lethargy is loss of precious human lives

A preventable cancer wreaks havoc

Opening the prestigious journal The Lancet, I was struck by the editorial “Eliminating cervical cancer”. It’s a cancer that is most preventable and

More than the sum of its parts

An 11-year-old tears down a cycle but is unable to put it back together

Heaped plates, hungry stomachs

Food turning surplus at celebrations and other gatherings should be collected and given to the poor

A smile can go a long way

Though the only species endowed with this graceful expression, humans do not comprehend its myriad strengths and often forget to use it

No mall rats back then

Large shopping establishments were unknown in the past, and people had no money to splurge

Enough of the princesses

Despite parents’ attempts to make play time more gender neutral, princesses have an indomitable presence in homes

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