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Every now and them, we have some writer or other imagining what Gandhi would have done had he lived in these times. Thus, we have B.S.Ragha...

When it was clear that the Chilean miners would be rescued soon, several Christian factions in Chile were squabbling over which of them had...

Whatever criticism we may level against religion, it has to be admitted that it has provided us with a moral framework or compass. Even the ...

Watching Tendulkar when he is in full flow is a joyful experience, but I have found his continued success in the last few years quite annoyi...

Siddharth Varadarajan agonises in The Hindu today that “Force of faith has trumped law and reason in Ayodhya case”. …..leaving aside the q...

In a Tamil play written by Cho Ramaswamy, a middle-aged man constantly dreams of a role -even a small one-  in the movies and keeps honing h...

“Is there something that is embedded deeply now in our collective consciousness as normal, right-thing-to-do, which we will, through a proce...

In the introduction to his book, “Other Colours”, a compilation of his writings on Life, Art Books and Cities, Turkish author Orhan Pamuk sa...

While watching the Champions League T20 match yesterday, I took a break for about 10 minutes. When I came back I found that 2 wickets had fa...

Queried about India’s chances against Brazil, India’s former Davis Cup captain Ramesh Krishnan says: “….. On Friday if we can win two singl...

In his  column, “Madras Miscellany”, in The Hindu today, Mr S.Muthiah reports on a program hosted by the Chennai Freemasons last week. Refer...

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...