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To quote Umberto Eco again ( I have just finished reading a collection of his essays and am trying to find suitable contexts to fit in what ...

There are many philosophies available to help people cope with the idea of death. One religion will claim that you don’t have to worry about...

“The kids of the next generation may be net-savvy and may be wizards at their Playstations, but do they know to tie their shoe laces? Can th...

A story posted widely on the Internet goes like this: There was a man who lived by the side of the road and sold hot dogs.He was hard of ...

Me: I read an amazing story today. There is this British explorer deep inside a forest in Africa . With him is one of those Bushmen. Sudden...

Queen Elizabeth has lost 25 million pounds in the global financial turmoil, according to this story. When she was given a briefing on the e...

When the Sensex crossed 21000 last year, I remember hearing some feeble voices say that the aggregate price-to-earnings ratio of the Indian ...

' “Coalition of the willing”, “War on terror”, “pro-life”, “pro-choice” are examples of phrases that smuggle in political opinion. A who...

Whenever there is a political rally in Chennai (not an infrequent event), thousands of people converge from all parts of the state to ‘expre...

If the year is 1832, and you represent the East India Company in the Madras Presidency, and have to arrive at ways and means to improve the ...

If you are obese and tend to eat too much, it is not because you are a glutton, unable to resist food. On the contrary, it may be because yo...

“Uyire train completes 100 years of operation”. That’s the headline that TOI chose today for a news item on the centenary of the Nilgiris Mo...

When seasoned campaigners such as Tendulkar, Dravid and Laxman struggled against the wily bowling of Mendis, Sehwag and Dhoni could play him...

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...