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Evolving into a better today

Sheila Balakrishnan

The good old days may not have been that good; today, mankind is less brutal, violent and cruel

A bunch of ripe apricots hanging on a tree in the orchard. Apricot fruit tree with fruits and leaves. Ukraine.

The apricots in the suitcase

S.G. Vombatkere

Travel restriction abstract made of tourist in form of of luggage with face mask, sunglasses and hat.

From Partition to pandemic

Kirti Wadhawan Born in present-day Pakistan, my grandfather still remembers the days of Partition.

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Living off borrowed words

Jairam N. Menon What really matters is neither the creator nor the content but the quotation mark

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For safety of students

Arshita Aggarwal A systemic change is must to prevent harassment by teachers

Pregnant during a pandemic

Kaveri Subbiah Vaccination is the way to go to protect expecting women

A man puts a red rose on the grave

In search of a good death

Sudhirendar Sharma Pandemic has demonstrated that as much as a good life, people desire a good exit too

A sketch of Ki Rajanarayanan.

Farewell to an extraordinary writer

Ki Rajanarayanan did not win the many awards he might have but he truly lived along with the sun

Understand that being loyal to one lifelong has its own charm and satisfaction.

Locked up together 24x7

Naveen Khajanchi

A successful marriage learns to gradually overlook the ego and hear the heart in the journey. It’s very difficult yet it can be achieved. The focus

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The gecko and the cat

For a country of storytellers

For Tamil cuisine, away in Pakistan

Gossip, sweet & sour

The gardener’s exit

The ganja debate

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.

The violinist in her

How a child took to an instrument that she felt she was made for

With and without footwear

The practical implications of taking them off or keeping them on while indoors

The unusual terrorists about

They are all around us and all the time. Who will tame and manage them?

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

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