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Sports columnist, Nirmal Shekar, writes in his piece in The Hindu: As a professional sportswriter, I am sick of hearing the question o...

It is said of A.R.Rahman’s music that one must listen to his songs several times before they can be really appreciated. I remember the d...

The British military doctor, Henry Harpur Spry, who I had referred to in my previous post , records his observations ( page 44) on the ...

In the course of his travel through Central India, a British military doctor, Henry Harpur Spry, makes an admiring reference to Hindu wo...

The Asiatic Journal and monthly register for British India, China and Australasia in its edition of 1837 ( page 181-185) , has this inte...

In a post in August 2010, I had noted how the ancient Chinese had moved a 200-ton block of stone on ice over a great distance, and contr...

The United Service Magazine (Part 3) in its issue of 1835 (Page 311), traces the history of the Indian Army set up by the British.  ...

What is about death of actors that makes people go irrationally sentimental?  People who have never even seen or spoken to Rajesh Khanna ...

Here I am, at 5.15 in the morning, suited, booted and waiting in a line to get inside the airport. The grumpy security guard wants some...

The Chairman of the Committee To Ensure Continued Dissatisfaction of Chennai Citizens (CTECDCC) was a worried man. The situation was alar...

A ‘good samaritan’ in my neighbourhood catches hold of all the stray dogs in the area and manages to tie collars around their necks. Th...

The ‘novel’ in the form we know it now, and defined as an “extended fictional prose narrative with emphasis on character development” c...