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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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Humanities in the time of profiteering pursuits

What’s cooking with GST?

Communities far beyond boundaries

Has engineering as a career lost credibility?

Planning for lives that should go on

Finding the mojo in the morning

The art and craft of camouflage

A woman’s survival guide behind enemy lines in the times we live in

Beyond the empty nest

Home is where their hearts will be: a mother’s view

The sub-culture around serials

Families gather around the television set each evening to follow the saga

Smoke in the hills

You would expect a peaceful, green and beautiful town to be the place for some clean air. But it’s not always so

Woman power to the fore

There is a paradigm shift visible in the manner in which women are being presented in some recent advertisement campaigns

Cryptography & cakes

I would call it serendipity. How else could a cryptography meet-up occur in the beloved port city of Kochi exactly on the eve of a previously

Looking for that silver lining

To dye or not to, the mid-life dilemma: damned if you do and damned if you don’t

Together but apart: lives and individual pursuits

How to make life fun again, beyond those little hiccups

Beyond perceptions : the thorns under the rose

The inevitable gap between imagined efficiency and true reality was bound to dawn on him one day

Unforgettable: the coffee experience and me

Exploring the contents of the cuppa is almost like exploring the differences in seemingly similar things

Together and apart in sisterhood

When life takes two siblings in different directions

The spectacles as a spectacle

They have long ceased being mere accessories, becoming accoutrements instead

Chandigarh that is my city forever

Through the eyes of an urban planner who also grew up there

A butterfly campaign

Three days after our pet dog Barty died, we were in Coonoor trying unsuccessfully to forget his beloved golden face and routine tricks to get

Quicksilver myths and reality, then and now

Changing perceptions of the uses of and hazards linked to the shiny chemical element

Books that made childhood merry

Before sundry devices took over lives

Through failures and successes

How contentment and courage saw a family through changing fortunes

Towards a future we cannot quite see

Of opportunities lost, and of young people helplessly lured into playing out a rat race in which they aren’t the rats

Why India needs a space law

India as a space superpower stands mightier than ever, but a law that protects the country’s sovereign, public and commercial interests is

For a zone sans the smartphone

How often do we get out of our pretentious worlds, to all intents and purposes enjoy what we pretend to be enjoying? Scarcely ever."Have a nice

The Great Indian Babu

As the bureaucrat bides his time doing precious little, those who wait and beg for governance suffer endlesslyIf you takes a domestic survey, the

Now, to look them all in the eye with confidence

The one minute that changed Constance’s dynamics with the world, her outlook and worldview, forever

Of rats, ants and that block of cheese

Why we need to recognise and live up to the true meaning of humanity, and empathise with the rest of the world

The sheer paradox of the punctual Indian

The challenge of keeping time where others do so

Let’s sign up for this language

The smooth path to national integration, overcoming linguistic divisions

The perils of the health check-up

A spree of investigations could well find diseases where there are none

Eklavya in Chakravayuh

We shouldn’t smother a child’s talent by using straitjacket solutions

Your own angels and demons

An agnostic and a believer is present in the personality of every human being

To practise or not

Doctors cannot always be held responsible for every death that occurs in a hospital.

A garden for healthy living

Plants can bring infinite joy to those who nurture them

Let the curves be: To roll the r’s and wing the s’s

Practising a different kind of art, the art of handwriting

Look who’s now eating crow

The Union government’s record so far is not an unmitigated set of negatives, after all

Changing tastes: Down food memory lane...

Ongoing adventures on the dining table have ensured the end of standardised items on the menu

Helping with menstrual hygiene

How a couple have found a way to aid women through simple strategies

Too many emojis, too little emotion

Shallow expression, words carelessly tossed around in social media, have become the new normal

Why you must always pick your own nose

You need to love your personal physical features

That time of the year

How to cope with being appraised

An introvert’s plea

Communication is a huge part of life. But I can never fathom the need for the tête-à-tête

The stink from India’s past

History says India had the oldest wet toilets. So what happened since then?

Leaving Lilliput

He brought home the abridged version of Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels for her that evening. That night, as they set about unravelling the

The burdens of leadership

The struggle to meet expectations constantly is the biggest challenge in a leadership role

Figuring out grad school

Some happy realities and pain points of the experience

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