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Daughter : Appa, if two of your friends did something wrong, would you confront them or would you ignore them? Me : Give me an exam...

There was a time when the activity of picking and buying fruits was a gamble. There was a 30% chance of the fruit being rotten, 40% chance o...

R.K.Narayan’s book, “Salt and Sawdust” has a selection called ‘Table Talk’, which according to RKN was a new form of writing, without the co...

John Keats wrote these famous lines in his poem, “Ode on a Grecian Urn”. " Beauty is truth, truth beauty," - that is all ...

According to this article in Salon, livestock accounts for 18% of the world’s greenhouse gas emission, more than the entire transportation ...

Being part of the corporate world, and working for an MNC, to boot, I endorse and help promote capitalism. I naturally want to believe that ...

Atanu Dey has a post on the incident involving the recent destruction of a Buddha statue in Swat, Pakistan and recalls an earlier instance ...

In his book, “ Guns, Germs and Steel ”, published in 1997, the author Jared Diamond tries to answer a question posed to him by Yali, a nativ...

Dear Diary, I just read these lines in the Brittanica Blog : “ The sum total of all the text we have collectively produced over the ages do...

Alfred E Neuman , the mascot and iconic symbol of Mad magazine graced the cover of more than 450 of its issues, appearing in a slew of disgu...

Though most women that I meet, these days, know that I am a long-married man, they continue to stare at me longingly and invitingly. I have ...

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...