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In the corporate world, psychometric studies are regularly done to assess personality traits of individuals and to (ostensibly) ensure compl...

“ The Telegraphic Journal ” published in April, 1864 provides an idea of the ‘state-of-the-art’ in that period. Telegraph lines had been la...

In a series of tweets, Prannoy Roy of NDTV writes: The reason why 50% of our coastline has turned to rock? 1) our beaches are like rivers...

Me: You know something? Muralitharan is close to his 800th wicket, while I am about to write my 700th blogpost. Isn’t that an amazing coinc...

In a letter to the Times of India, Dilip D’Souza brings to their attention that an article that had appeared in their Crest edition had bor...

Dan Brown !

At the recently concluded World Tamil Conference, various steps were initiated with a view to popularising the use of Tamil in the state. Si...

Says Russian investment banker Innokenty Osadchy: “I don’t ever want to die... It wouldn’t suit me”. He is ready to pay a small fortune to f...

In his book, “Checklist Manifesto ”, Atul Gawande of Harvard Medical School explains how a simple tool such as a ‘checklist’ can eliminate e...

A friend, in one of his introspective moods, told me, “Raj, let’s be honest. What have you and I achieved in this world? Have we done anythi...

After being 8-14 down in the first game, Saina Nehwal fought back and won the finals of the Singapore Open yesterday. Later, she told a repo...

Aware of my violent reaction if a song not composed by A.R.Rahman is played in my presence, my daughters try to test my loyalty by playing o...

An article by Priya Ramani on ‘our pseudo-nationalism’ got her a lot of hate mail and generated quite a buzz in the Twitter world. She wrot...

Swaminathan Aiyer argues that the Indian Railways has caused more deaths than the Bhopal disaster and yet the public has not displayed the ...

The Crest Edition of today’s Times of India carries a series of articles probing the subject, “Does God exist?”. The usual arguments, for an...

The manuscript, “ Asiatic Research or Transactions of The Society Instituted in Bengal for inquiring into the History and Antiquities, the A...

“The positive energy of all my devotees saved my life” said godman Sri Ravishankar after the miraculous ‘incident’ in which a bullet missed ...

Dear Daughters, I always thought that you Millenials (those born between 1982 and 2002), with your ubiquitous iPods and 24/7 e-mail access,...

Every now and then one gets to read about someone having climbed Mt Everest. As climbing the mountain, by itself, is no longer newsworthy, s...

I have been trying my hand at Twitter for the last few days and have found the experience fascinating. If blogging is akin to an ODI game i...