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Abhishek Asthanahindustantimes |
My five-year-old goes to an international school in Gurgaon. Why did we choose it over CBSE/ICSE? Well, I can give a well-rehearsed five-minute...
In the 1980s, a small company shut down, and it led to millions of students leaving their homes after Class X in search of a better future. To know...
Two decades ago, on a hot Sunday afternoon, I was writing what felt like the most important exam of my life. It was a day I had been preparing for...
I am writing this from Bellagio, a town on the shores of Lake Como in Italy. It somehow reminds me of my home in Uttar Pradesh — a home which exists...
‘Kya lagta hai, kaun aayega iss baar?’ (What do you think, who will come to power this time?) A journalist who has freshly landed in an...
‘Let’s go to Japan,’ I casually asked the missus a few months ago, with some guilt that husbands typically carry — some residual shame for...
Thirty-five minutes remaining — I have never missed a flight in my life. I inherited the traits of my father — a duty-bound man, who sits in the...
Dhurandhar, the fiery Aditya Dhar movie, is a hard-hitting movie largely about Karachi gangs and how they aid the larger apparatus of State-sponsored...
Songs take you back in time, and also to places. Migrant workers from Purvanchal can barely function without Kumar Sanu crooning in the background
Wedding dates are almost always decided by astrologers, and hence converge at that particular time of the year that has a bunch of “auspicious dates”
Bihar has developed since. People who had moved out long ago still carry the same impression of Bihar
Why is the H-1B visa such a big issue for India? It is the brain drain. Students from public-funded universities offering subsidised education moving...
Any subsequent resolution upgrade, speed upgrade, or camera clarity bump won’t be distinguishable to the naked eye. All you get is more and more...
Bad bosses are a boon to a growing economy. They contribute by pushing talented individuals out of corporate slavery to start their own ventures and...
The moment a lift arrives at the ground floor, people waiting won’t stop for those inside to disembark; they would rush immediately — a vertical...
“Whenever” is a great tool to dodge such societal curveballs. It doesn’t commit a date, and shifts the onus on to the inviting party to propose...
Rags to riches stories, propelled by genetics and a bit of luck, always existed, but they were distant.
Imagine the Bihar of the 19th century, sans the caste system, paan masala, poor civic sense, but all the amazing food, music, and sweet dialect