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Mountstuart Elphinstone (6 October 1779 – 20 November 1859) was a Scottish statesman and historian, who later became the Governor of Bombay...

Reports of accidents, floods, drought, recession, unemployment, incurable virus outbreaks, energy shortage, global warming, etc dominate the...

This is from the awesome “Letters of note” blog . An inquisitive letter from a Kansas City resident provoked this insightful typewritten ...

"The solemn reading of a royal proclamation on August 15, officially ends nearly two centuries of British rule over the squalid subcont...

Having started my career as a Salesperson, I was trained quite early to treat customers with courtesy and never to lose my cool whatever may...

A few weeks back, I was a victim of plagiarism. Someone had borrowed the central idea and some passages- verbatim- from my blogpost of July ...

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...