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Black day Rajiv Gandhi moments before he was killed by a suicide bomber in Sriperumbudur, near Chennai.

The spirit of survival

May 21, 1991 remains seared in the memory of police officials and their kin who were affected by the blast that took the life of Rajiv Gandhi

A doctor listening to his patient's heartbeat with a stethoscope

Checkmating a silent killer

Love, care, respect: the bottom line of a marriage

Vivek K. Agnihotri It’s a tribute to human ingenuity that the institution lasts

The games words play

Sandhya Sugumaran The way an image of a letter is processed by the brain is unique; hence, we have to go into the worlds of dyslexic children and see things the way they see them

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Art, the brain and the mind

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

Flutist and Pianist playing music

A different set ofnotes with music

R.W. Alexander Jesudasan Human beings face different kinds of sicknesses in life. While many overcome them, some succumb to one or the other. As the world progresses, concomitant problems surface in different ways, and as a result humanity doesn’t progress in the manner it could be expected to. While there are many stress-busters available to handle tensions in life, music seems to have an overriding and therapeutic effect on the stresses and sickness that humans endure. Music is thought to bring forth miracles by

The song of the open road recalled

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

Illustration: Sreejith R. Kumar

Where have the rains gone?

No chants, no prayers, no marriage of frogs can bring back the bygone days

The season of the king

It has been that time of the year. Despite doomsday predictions about a poor crop, from unseasonal rain, hail or wind, the local markets were awash

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Towards Pax Technologica?

The gym-goers

The water woes

Trauma re-lived: a victim’s first-person account

The guest as god, no less

Looking for oneself

Much more than just taxi tattle

It would appear that all they need is an ever-so-mild provocation, to let off steam and give vent to it all

An yesteryear tale: so far yet so near they lived their lives

How Jayarama Iyer in the North Pole and Visalakshi in the South Pole still somehow remained aligned

The stare case

Her name means “civility”. Born and raised in the U.S. in an immigrant Indian family, she has impeccable manners. In India to attend a cousin’s

Of a certain power, and my first wrist-watch

A prudent little lady’s piggy bank helps make a timely choice, with a little help from mother

The art of doing nothing

Mindfulness that release from the daily grind brings

Transcending boundaries

Revisiting and revising elements of the subcontinent’s contemporary history

End of the attestation routine

No more having to run around to get documents attested is a great convenience

From India, in awe

'Chuddies' make an entry into the Oxford English Dictionary

Those elusive girls of my life

The magic touch that the girl children can bring to your life is incomparable

Chronicles from a promenade

Of morning walks and assorted sights along a popular beach in Chennai.

American overtures

How the best opportunities sometimes come through unplanned routes

Hearts are for giving

A grateful recipient spells out her experience and urges wider facilitation of the process.

The faked world out there

The doctor now has a new problem. It comes in the shape of half-truths spread over social media

Battling the smoke

For me, it’s a 25-minute commute to work each day. One factor that has been leaving me vexed is vehicular pollution and the thick smoke. On a daily

The mystery of the disappearing gift

One pen and one box of chocolates out of three sets gone? One doesn’t even know for sure

That incredible lightness

The exhausting dance in pursuit of social acceptance ought to end

The perfect drink to sip

I’ve loved chai for as long as I can remember. Over the years the scent of tea has come to mean so many things that it’s no longer just a drink, it’s

The thumb rules

The mystery of entry fee rate differentials between Indians and foreigners

The bazaar that’s India

Some takeaways from the wayside hustle and bustle of smart traders.

The precious monotony

How a reprieve from a health scare can transform the routine into the sublime.

The miracles of life and the tragedies of death

Life and death have their own methods of play beyond the understanding of humans, including doctors

Of love and the melon metaphor

Have you ever chanced upon a fruit that goes by the name kharbooja in the northern parts of India? That round, firm, uniformly striped (though the

That order and peace amidst the seeming chaos

Why on a cricket field the game becomes the faith, at least during the phase of childhood

With next-door neighbours like these…

When you’re in an apartment complex, the everyday dilemma involves loving to hate them for their ways

Bicycle diaries

Taking in the national capital’s wonders before it really wakes up for the day.

Searching for those spectacles

A possible pointer for future start-ups, chiefly for the benefit of senior citizens.

A flawed concept

Urban centres should move from the concept of storm water drains to ‘storm water harvesting’

Daddies and those household chores and tasks

They are yet to catch up fully, but contribute a great deal to household chores while pursuing their careers

The promise of a sunset — and a sunrise

There are ways to overcome the empty nest syndrome and offset the inevitable loneliness it brings

Dreams and the reality

Asinine as they might be, these are visions from deep within

Over a cup of coffee

The Spanish newspaper Mundo Deportivo recently published details of a research project. Its finding was that men generally, and often uncannily,

A child without the pronouns

Is this the big piece of wisdom?

Life makes the decisions

If you assume you make them, you may be wrong: life has its own sequence and ways

A daughter on a special father

International Women’s Day (which fell on March 8 this year) celebrated the achievements of women and reminded us of the feminists who fought on our

The elusive satisfaction

Life’s distractions and meanwhile the pursuit of happiness

Homemaker’s jobs

My father casually walked into the house. After knocking down the contents of the newspaper superficially and making a quick assessment of the garden,

Talking as performing art, ending social media introversion

Ingenuity, creativity and practice are essential ingredients of this engaging act too

Recrafting Indian education

Something very right seemed to have been happening in education 400 years ago. What can we reclaim now?

Running, the best medicine

You’ll be surprised by the many benefits it bring, at any imaginable age

The many perils and few pleasures of modern-day dating exercises

“I’m looking for an interesting conversationalist; someone who is curious about the world,” reads the matrimonial profile of a Bengaluru-based lawyer.

The seniors are here

Increasingly they are finding their feet, growing wings very late in life

Ode to the blackboard

It will continue to have a lasting role in teaching and learning

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