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I keep my ears on ‘high alert” when I go for a walk in the morning .so that I don’t miss out on the juicy gossip, profound philosophies and ...

So many magazines publish a “Ask our doctor” page where they claim to provide answers to medical questions sent in by their readers. I am co...

Scientists theorise on the phenomenon involving “Aeolian dust “ that is picked up in local storms in deserts and arid regions and carried by...

I am just boarding the aircraft. I will soon be comfortably ensconced in the aisle seat in the first row. Plenty of elbowroom. Enough space ...

Driving back from office one evening, I tuned in to the FM channel. The DJ was doing his best to spice up the proceedings with his constant ...

( Dedicated to Lalu who has just fallen, shattering my dreams of India bagging some Olympic medals .Raj ) The Times of Bihar Patna edition, ...

I just dropped my daughter off at a birthday party. Along the way, obeying my wife’s clear instructions, I picked up a ‘birthday present ‘ f...

When I switch on the TV and accidentally channel-surf my way into one of those soap operas or the mil-dil episodes that cast such a spell ov...

The sight of my ten-year old daughter comfortably settled on the sofa, a bowl of potato chips in one hand and the TV- remote-control device ...

Those of you who want to prevent a heart-attack or some of you who have already suffered a heart attack but want to prevent the next one, ta...

You should have seen the fuss that my wife made and the tantrums that she threw up when I woke her from a afternoon siesta yesterday and ask...

I confess that I am dismayed by the proliferation of new institutions such as the unisex beauty parlours and family saloons. One, they threa...

A generation back, there was a simple method to separate the men from the boys. The real men were those who could claim total mastery over t...

In an article published three years back, TIME magazine had analysed the reasons behind India’s success with IT and software. “How did India...

There is a pronounced cultural bias, when it comes to appreciation of the parts of the human anatomy. The Japanese people go ga-ga over long...

Saraanch’s blog on how the same piece of a specific rajma gets lodged everytime in his second, upper-molar, reminded me of an identical exp...

If Harry Potter series can be stretched over seven episodes and Star Wars over six ( if I haven’t got the figure wrong), won’t you permit me...

I heard this story on a BBC radio program. In the tiny village of Glaslough, Ireland, populated by a few hundred people, there lived a man c...

As a nation, we face an acute shortage of genuine heroes - at least the ones cast in the western mould. You know the type, strongest, talles...

My daughter’s bicycle was stolen, one day, from our house. Dreading the red-tape, I chose not to file a complaint with the police and accept...