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(Warning: Smoking is injurious to health) It looks like Milan beat everyone to the New Year's resolutions this time. As the clock struck midnight...
Vivek Ramaswamy may just be the saviour Indians with an American Dream have been waiting for. Or is he the enfant terrible who's going to ruin it...
What is the common thread joining the Bangalore car crash claiming five lives, Blake Lively's sexual harassment complaint against her It Ends With...
The Pelicot rape trial has reminded the world of the tenuousness of a woman’s sense of safety. Gisèle has done her bit. But where do we go from...
Damascus has fallen. Once again. One of the oldest cities in the world has fallen. To rise again from its rubble, heralding a new order. In its...
Time and again, a harsh but obvious truth asserts itself - men cannot stand women. The latest example is the outgoing Corps Commander (17 Corps) Lt...
We, the people of Delhi, are in a bad marriage with the city. This marriage is beyond redemption, but both parties dither in calling it quits....
“My brother forced my pen to move.” That's what Sandhya Mridul, a Hindi cinema and TV artist, says about the motivation behind her debut book of...
It's not misogyny that defeated Kamala Harris. There is a certain insincerity lurking behind this explanation for the decisive victory of the...
All of us can be forgiven for mistaking 2024 as the year of the longest-running live TV entertainment. Thankfully, one leg of it is over. As the...
“Irreparable loss,” the phrase that leapt out for this author from economist and author Bibek Debroy's last piece of public writing published...
In the annals of history, few narratives illuminate the dynamics of international relations as vividly as trade. The East India Company's interest...
All eyes have been on Iran for more than a year. Naturally, the first BRICS summit with Tehran's membership is bound to breed speculation about...
"We're not so different, you and I. We've both spent our lives looking for the weakness in one another's systems. Don't you think it's time to...
"If it's good for Ratan Tata, it's good for us" was my saintly-strictly in the sense of being indifferent to extravaganza-husband's winning line...
"It's good these people are in jail," a fruit seller shared his frustration, keeping his shop open despite a lowered shutter in response to the...
Typing this essay on a MacBook Air, tethered to an iPhone Pro (not the latest model) for accessing the internet, reeks of hypocrisy. Yet, certain...
The problem with sexual abuse, as suspected in the Diddy-Bieber case, is twofold — the impact and the perpetrator-victim dynamic
In an ongoing hearing, the Supreme Court of India has decried the Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) for not serving its purpose. The...
"You should have married me," the lover said ruefully. "Then I'd be doing this with him." 'This' being a sweaty steamy rendezvous on a yacht. It...
Votaries of the US presidential debate - including many of our senior politicians - may want to hold their horses. The first presidential debate...
I'll be 39 in exactly ten days. I'm a mother of two daughters-21 and 15. I have all the privileges that you can count-caste, class, religion, skin...
(In light of the controversy over the Netflix series 'IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack', here is a view on the 1999 hijack and its aftermath. Click here...
"Could we really scan a dog's brain to figure out what it was thinking? Would we find proof that dogs love us?" In the prologue to his trailblazing...
The Russia-Ukraine war started exactly two years ago. The very next day, on February 25, 2022, India abstained from voting on a draft resolution in...
"Why harp on the facts, it's the exaggerations that makes a tale interesting!" A favourite aunt once exclaimed when I tried to fact-check a funny...
Some victories are sweeter than others, some defeats more bitter, whatever the arena be. But what about the cruelty of fate? How does one take...
'In my beginning is my end.' There is no situation in the world that cannot be explained through poetry in general, T.S. Eliot's in particular....
So what if our team turned up in an eyesore of a formal kit at the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics? Our shaadi ceremonies are way grander...
Everyone loves a good host. Everyone loves a powerful host. Everyone loves a host who gives guided tours. In this limited regard, the Prime...