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This is the 5th story in the Bata Thatha series. The earlier ones are here. It was a glorious morning at the Marina. The sun was behind a c...

I happened to be in Mumbai on Anant Chaturthi day in September when idols of Ganesh were taken out in grand processions and immersed in the ...

Antoine de Saint-Exupery , French aviator and author of “The Little Prince” came up with this metaphor, “If you want to build a ship, don...

He lay awake on his bed, thinking about the previous evening. For some reason, his girl friend had been giving him the cold shoulder. Last e...

While driving down from Belapur to the Mumbai airport today, I realized that the driver of the car was a cricket aficionado. The 7th ODI bet...

I am sure all of you would have read about the incident in which, “over 130 passengers on a Jet Airways flight, including the entire Austra...

On the Manila-Singapore leg of the journey last week, I decided to take an earlier flight instead of the one that I was booked in. I made it...

Alex Tabarrok of Marginal Revolution shares his secret fear: My secret fear is that one day I will find myself working in Starbucks; the ca...

Soon after the announcement that the Nobel Peace prize had been awarded (jointly) to Mr Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate C...

Details of the Ig Nobel awards - for achievements that first make people LAUGH then make them THINK- are as eagerly awaited every year as t...

Downloading tons of intellectual stuff from “The Hindu’ into my left brain, strains my system severely each morning and I try to neutralise ...

Came across this dad-daughter dialogue, in one of Maxim Gorky’s stories called “The Nightingale”: ..Floating from somewhere a good way off...

Although I average 80 flights a year, I am still a nervous traveler. It is not the flying, per se, that gives me butterflies in my stomach. ...

Dear Diary, The whole of today, I had this claustrophobic feeling that I was slowly being enclosed by walls on all sides. When I logged on t...

(In our car, driving back after shopping at the departmental stores) Daughter (checking the bill): Oh, oh. The shop has billed us for only ...

Something in this report, which was published in all newspapers, last week, aroused my curiosity. Indian hockey coach Joaquim Carvalho on We...

If there is one sportsman whose career and fortunes I have followed with considerable interest, it is Anand (see note below). I am glad that...

The New York Times has recently allowed free access to its archives dating back to 1850. The closest interesting event that I could think ...

Me : I cleared the loft today Daughter : ( gives disinterested look) Me : I threw out so much stuff. Can’t believe we accumulated all that ...

A subliminal message, says Wikipedia, is a signal or message embedded in another object, designed to pass below the normal limits of percep...