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Listen to this article: Astha Kunj in South Delhi is a 22-acre park, originally created to link three places of worship: the Kalkaji temple, the...
Listen to this article: Over the last twelve years, we have been governed by a majoritarian coalition that claims to be nostalgic about Ram Rajya in...
Listen to this article: Once again India’s season for prolonged fasting and feasting is almost upon us. Kashi, as the long famous land of epicures,...
Listen to this article: Rahul Gandhi’s recent exhortation to women in Pune to smash patriarchy and reject all ancient discriminatory Hindu laws...
Listen to this article: There is a Hindi phrase: Seeng kata ke bachhada banana (A bull removing his horns to look like a calf). This seems to be...
Listen to this article: English speaking cultural icons in India have always made a lot more money than those who can’t. Their self assured regal...
Listen to this article: ‘Na Iran ne kiya na Roos ne, Angrez ko tabaah kiya kartoos ne.’ (The British were not defeated by Iran or Russia, but by...
Listen to this article: In his seminal work On the Evolution of Species, Charles Darwin describes how organisms evolve over generations through a...
Listen to this article: In Asia, Emperor Wu Ti (145-87 BC), who claimed the “Mandate of Heaven” for himself, was the biggest and most spectacular...
Listen to this article: Let’s begin by acknowledging the absurdity of an Indian writer’s position today. The category by now includes editors...
Listen to this article: Many of us begin objectively thinking about fathers only as ageing daughters and after they are long gone. What propels it?...
Listen to this article: Summer is here, and with that our already run down hill stations and roads are alarmingly over trampled upon by pilgrims,...
The next real wave of liberation will have to be rooted in a collective idea of self-esteem among women of all classes, castes and communities
The next real wave of liberation will have to be rooted in a collective idea of self-esteem among women of all classes, castes and communities
The next real wave of liberation will have to be rooted in a collective idea of self-esteem among women of all classes, castes and communities
Listen to this article: The time has come, the respected Sarsanghchalak said recently, to talk of many things. Yes indeed. The times are changing so...
Listen to this article: According to popular lore, Confucius once called on the elder statesman and hermit Lao Tze to ask him how to conduct his life....
Listen to this article: He na janaave sadharan, anna brahma roop jaan. Thus spake Saint Gyaneshwar of Maharashtra. Food is splayed all over our...
Listen to this article: Political packages are emerging in our democracy of late, with unexpected interlinkages between power centres. One such...
Listen to this article: The family joked whenever she called out to one of her seven daughters, my grandmother would never hit the right name first....
Listen to this article: Election time is prediction time for the cocky know-alls in our media. Some do it standing in studios against a backdrop of...
Listen to this article: In 1935, Evelyn Waugh set out to search the pre-war Georgian era. Two years later in 1937, Graham Greene tried presenting till...
Listen to this article: When we grow up surrounded with stockpiles of information at our finger tips, and an infinite supply of preserved words,...
Listen to this article: Sometimes a casual sensory experience may trigger memories that the mind had tucked deep within. Writer Julian Barnes has a...
Listen to this article: A weird scene is going viral on social media today. The boss is sitting in the White House surrounded by what appears to be a...
Listen to this article: The world is in a churn, geologically, intellectually, economically. Three forces we are told are converging on the horizon...
Listen to this article: Delhi, built, rebuilt (at least nine times, they say), is a large complex of medieval and modern edifices, as the recent AI...