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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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Illustration: Sreejith R. Kumar

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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Needed, constructive and candid conversations on mental health

Knowledge is dead, the school serves the living

A plant waits for its patrons

A beautiful mind

Fun in 50 km, framed by the bus window

The colonel and the ‘film extra’: how a toddler broke the ice

What we the people want

With the election results out, let us not instigate disruption, tolerate corruption or foment trouble; let the losers work in tandem to better India’s ‘being’

Some sweet disputes

Of chicken-and-egg questions, rasgullas and vehement territorial claims

A close shave

An explosion inside the house and an investigation that led to a slippery trail

How to be a scriptwriter

Fleshing out an idea into a workable movie takes different stages and skills

Alarmed on an aircraft carrier

A Prime Minister and a shriek

The social media overdose

You nowadays have to scroll through hundreds of forwards to get to see at least one worthwhile post

‘Discover happiness within’

What is happiness? Is it something that comes from outside or from within? Well, it’s a tricky question. Anything that gives us pleasure gives us

Green blood versus pink guavas

When appearances colour perceptions and influence thought processes as well

Seeming ambiguities over the definition of a family unit

A case to search for alternatives in order to overcome the patriarchical element in the existing structure

Bengaluru’s growth story

Is it a double-edged sword for the metropolis, after all?

A bibliophile’s corner

Grandfather had them all, to read and to keep. Then one day…

Cast in wax or iron?

When the fire of adversities tests your mettle, true character reveals itself.

There is positivity everywhere, we only have to touch it

How goodness can bring forth goodness in return, and spread the smell of humanity all around

Leave the child alone

Remember certain encounters at functions? “Beta, you aren’t yet married? Why are you giving your parents a hard time? Find a guy soon, beta.” The

A hen as grandmother

On a predecessor’s fowl deed

The probability of not being what you are today

Just consider the whole panoply of career options that you could have exercised in life — what you could have been

Blessings of white hair

Hair colour gets you the right of way, but not always perhaps

Riding the wave of technology

The changes over the past few decades have been phenomenal, but are we lacking the human touch?

The big snow story

In freezing Canada, enjoying every minute of the first winter season has its share of excitement

An election-day experience

How the democratic exercise worked in a village in Bihar in 1991, with the seeming concurrence of all those who were present

The pigeon life cycle

A fascinating family drama, sans emotions, unfolds on the balcony of a home

To follow a code of life

Dealing with oneself, and those around you

Mothering across generations

Striving to earn and deserve the advantages of nurturing received as a young one

The restaurant with dynamic costing

When the cost accountants tried an inter-disciplinary approach at their business venture

Some secrets of management

There are many ways of successfully currying favour at the workplace

Time as money

I was wondering, what would have happened had time been comparable to money. One could save time by reducing spending. One could save today and use it

Around the daily morning walk

Some images at daybreak, and certain subtle messages for the walker

Where are the street charmers gone?

They have become extinct, rendered irrelevant with the passage of time, and it was inevitable

Our Lady of the Flames

The Notre-Dame cathedral stood calm, though shorn of spire and roof

Sun, sea, sand and straight flushes

The floating casinos of Goa are giving the land of beaches and susegad a whole new spin

Those elusive dreams

For a boy of eight, the easy chair was pure magic; it could transform mundane existence to a life of peace

Shopping in this age

Who needs to buy dresses? All you may need is a trial room selfie for Facebook

Stress and how to beat it

Learn to manage it to your own advantage

The psychology of #MeToo

The movement might have waned, but the shifting scales of sexual politics have changed the man-woman dynamic forever

A golfer’s sorry tale

It has been four months, or is it five, since I played a round of golf. First it was a frozen shoulder. After it was ‘defrosted’, pain in the neck

Why April is indeed the cruellest of months

The summer and its heat can extract the price on the road — and how!

Lies versus the truth, the choice is ours

Admitting and learning from mistakes should be the right way to go, and Indians need to learn that

The Uncertainty Principle at work

Science and life’s realities today

The art of coping with summers

When the heat is on, some have their own mechanisms to deal with the discomfort

Dadaji and the dog

A life’s lesson on why you don’t ever kill a puppy for its mischief

Towards Pax Technologica?

We need a new manifesto to deal with technology and democracy side by side

The gym-goers

Coping with the sheer weight of a healthy resolve to stay slim

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