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I watched a French movie on TV5 channel last week. Before you conclude that I am one of those high-brow students of serious cinema, let me c...

I have also viewed ‘watches’ from a cold, functional stand-point. So long as the one that I am using, tells me the time with reasonable accu...

Talking about the ‘call of the roots’ in my previous post brought back memories of another incident that happened 15 years back. While...

On the flight back from Brussels , the passenger sitting next to me was a teenager making his first visit to India . Ajay is a Canadian citi...

When the Apocalypse, as predicted by the Book of Revelation, happens , the four horsemen symbolizing Famine, War, Pestilence and Death wil...

To reflect on the BMW case again, not the case per se, but the tag. The reason why TV channels choose to brand an incident in a certain wa...

I had brought to you the inside story on how the Indo-US nuclear deal was clinched on that eventful day in Delhi in March 2006. The Brahmas...

The BMW case has attracted lot of attention in the media. What I found curious was why it came to be referred to as the BMW case. India Tod...

Have you ever noticed that herds of grazing animals all face the same way? (source) (via) Images from Google Earth have confirmed that c...

While following the news that Pankaj Advani had beaten Geet Sethi to become the new World Champion in Billiards, I noticed that the players ...

“When will the Internet become aware of itself?” was a question posed by Terrence Sejnowski in in the 2006 edition of the Edge- The World Q...

Me: An old lady, I have never met in my life, came up to me today at the airport, and asked me if we could check in our luggage together. ...

I remember watching a Hindi movie (I forget the title) where the story would keep jumping from the ‘80s to the ‘50s and back to the ‘80s. ...

A sports arena is nothing but a surrogate battleground, where primitive or baser instincts to kill and maim are vented out and channelized i...

Knowledge@wharton reviews a book , Turning Learning Right Side Up: Putting Education Back on Track , by Russell L. Ackhoff and Daniel Green...

When oil prices crossed $ 144 a barrel last month, I read somewhere that this was exactly the figure that Osama Bin Laden had targeted as “t...

Some of the drivers of the tourist cars that I hire in smaller towns have this tendency to jump out of their seats, to run around quickly to...

As this visual representation of a typical day illustrates, brands rule our lives. When I wake up in the morning and step into my bathroom,...

In her book “ Smokes and Mirrors ”, Pallavi Aiyar gives an absorbing account of her 5-year stint in China, and the many encounters with in...

“I have just been drilling holes on black paper all these years”, said Abhinav Bindra, in reply to one of the questions from the media, afte...