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A recent story : NEW DELHI: The Ganges holds a special place in a billion Indian hearts. But a Melbourne-born artist has become the first t...

A news item in the New York Times: New Delhi : The girls gathered in a school auditorium here on a recent Saturday were beaming with pride...

One of my favourite pastimes is to dip into Google Books and scan through books concerning India and published 250-300 years back by the Bri...

Scott Adams explains the art of “High Ground Maneuver”. The move involves taking an argument up to a level where you can say something tha...

A recent news item in The Hindu carried a report on an initiative taken by the Railway Police to warn passengers against ‘biscuit bandits’ ...

With my roots in Thanjavur district of Tamilnadu, I have heard several stories about the Brihadeeswara Temple and the grand effort put in b...

“The gentleman who wrote the journal from which the following pages are chiefly drawn, went out to India in the beginning of 1805, and retur...

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...