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Collegial group From left: C. Rajagopalachari, Governor-General; Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru; Lieutenant-General K.M. Cariappa; Vijayalakshmi Pandit, Ambassador to the USSR; Sardar Baldev Singh, Defence Minister; and Lady Bucher, wife of Sir Roy Bucher, the last British Commander-in-Chief, on January 14, 1949, a day prior to Cariappa’s assumption of office as Commander-in-Chief.

The commander’s canon

The Army must remain aloof from and be above politics, believed General K.M. Cariappa

Hunger for books Crowds at the Chennai Book Fair.

If I were a book… all is fair

The thin line of healing

Usha Jesudasan Have you heard of the Matabele ants which live in sub-Saharan Africa? No? You should know about them for they can teach us something wonderful about life. These ants are ferocious warrior ants which attack termite colonies and feed on them.In doing so, some of them get bitten by termite “soldier” ants whose job is to defend their colony from attacks. A fascinating study by Erik T. Frank has revealed something amazing about these ants. After a battle-style attack, they don’t leave their wounded

"A cook chops herbs into this cooking skillet on top of a stove in this kitchen in Debradun, India. With curry and coriander seasonings, this promises to be a healthy offering of vegetables, including okra, potatoes and peas. The kitchen is operated by Astitva, a local non-profit organization that helps abused women start small business and find jobs so that they can become economically self-sufficient. Two women operate the kitchen as a profit-making business. They prepare meals for staff, students in a day-care center and deliver tiffins to local business people at lunch -- as well as grind spices for a thrift shop."

In search of the secret sauce

Anuradha Rajan The kitchens in ancestral homes hold delectable memories

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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

Illustration: J.A. Premkumar

Be open to open book exams

Ganesh Shankar Mishra Instead of taxing memory, such exams will have to test problem-solving skills

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

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

A mystery in the mountains

Manal Ramneek Singh

Who took the plant is a mystery to this day. And one that is better left unsolved

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Education and literacy

Instilling logic in teaching mathematics

Good teacher, bad teacher

Keeping memories fresh

Developing age-appropriate content

Achieving occupational balance

Sound and fury

When cacophony turns the world into a living hell

Of wonder-filled childhood

How a starry-eyed youngster sees the world differently

Torn asunder

The wounds of Partition fester for an 80-year-old who lost her best friend during the division

A flood of compassion when the levees broke in Kerala

A doctor’s account of how pride and communal divisions melted away during the floods in Kerala in August 2018

The sins of the fathers

“Religion in politics is a problem that our fathers gave us. If we give it to our sons, it will be our fault,” two young friends concluded after reading Orwell’s 1984.

The night the crocodile surfaced

A palace pond had these big reptiles, and when one terrified a child, the father just shooed it away

Peer Baba amid the planes

How a Sufi’s tomb inside an Air Force Station turned a beacon of hope after a series of fatal air crashes

Shut TV, marvel at the beautiful world

I am cooking in the kitchen. It’s a beautiful day outside, a bird chirping in the distance and children happily making their way to school. “Girija,”

A geese nursery in the land of lakes

Unobtrusive, silent, disciplined parenting made the birds stand out; but in the end, the nest was empty

Encounters with the rains

At the age of eight, I was not ready to believe the school lesson that said Cherrapunji was the wettest place in India. I was studying in Chennai,

Travelling solo around the world

Solo travel is a life changing experience which makes you discover what kind of person you are and develop self-belief.

Ending violence against parents

The real reason for attacks on the elderly is their physical inability to fight back

The apples and oranges syndrome

Difference is not hierarchy and comparison is not good

A thought for talent

An education policy should identify, nurture and capitalise on the nation’s talent

When diet eats the mind

The big debate at homes these days is what to eat.

Why the apathy towards cleanliness?

A culture of cleanliness and tidiness must be inculcated from an early age

Toothsome kachoris with a stuffing of serendipity

When the mind plays games with you, it can sometimes be for a little side trip to fortune

Space-hopping on a rocketing mind

What separates us is the glue that binds us

Sunshine thoughts on a better world, to win over hate with love

The nascent rays touch off a stream of musings on where the world is headed to

Unreal spectacle on the screen

Reality TV projects false values

Confessions of a technophobe

A Luddite he is, but he wants software to help reply to the birthday greetings flooding his phone

The striking tales the rain tells

The universal truths and some age-old lessons of water management

All in a day’s work for this doctor

Two patients, the same kind of effort put in; one survives, the other dies

How nature sorts us

No two lives are comparable, and no two achievements can be similar

Life as one big breadboard

Outcomes hardly matter; just do it as diligently as possible

My sin, the sin of sloth

Being lazy could be a state of mind that could well liberate you

Mock-meat and all that

Coping with a certain kind of ambiguity in vegetarianism

A son flies free

Seeming freedom and novelty for him, misery and apprehension for mother

The many shades of grey

The characteristics of gender identity do not always come in black and white

Looking for water

The crisis is almost here to haunt us

The tale of a gritty survivor’s battles

I was diagnosed with cancer of the thyroid in April 2014, a few months before I was to join Purdue University in the United States. My doctors told me

Light of life

Human emotions fascinate me — the lips displaying feelings, wrinkled brows, glittering eyes, contented faces. Humans have a tendency to be happy when

Beyond the dilemma

The real perks of retired life: taking charge and gaining control over daily activities

A glean revolution in a world of food shortages and hunger

Picking up after a harvest the good and usable fruit of human activity that is inadvertently left behind, is now a movement

From once upon a time

When a little girl grows up, across adolescent foibles and along heartbreak street

Creative destruction in full flow

Change is sweeping over the road transport sector in an inevitable re-run of the technology cycle

A mentor and a master

Once upon a time a young man hated English, and then one day…

Black, blue and more

The fascinating facts behind the phenomena of eye colours

Homage to an oddball

This tribe’s idiosyncrasies provide colour to our daily greys of mundanity and prosaicness

Finding joy

The refrain these days is: ‘I am bored’. Kids, housewives, elderly, all seem bored. Those busy with careers may not be bored but prone to depression.

Art, the brain and the mind

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

The song of the open road recalled

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

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