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Airlines and hotels love to hype the smallest of comforts that they provide. The classic case is the announcement airline stewards make th...

We have been led to believe that Lord Macaulay had insisted on substituting traditional education in India with western education with a v...

John Chapman, author and an expert on cotton and commercial practices, makes these prophetic and pertinent observations in the year 1853. ...

“We want justice’ say the relatives of victims of a terror attack or murder. “The perpetrators must be arrested and hanged. “ Those ...

“Amitabh Bachchan appeals for dry Holi as Maharashtra grapples with drought” says this NDTV story. No doubt, by virtue of having led a fr...

In a brilliant article, Osman Samiuddin tries to provide an explanation for Pakistani cricketers’ propensity to pull off amazing victorie...

Isn’t it a mockery of the legal process that there should even be a debate on granting amnesty to actor Sanjay Dutt? He has been convicted...

Some months back I came across an article that talked about the Chinese practice of harvesting organs from executed prisoners. I don’t ha...

T.T.Rammohan quotes from an article which marvels at the successful organisation of the Kumbh Mela festival. On the sandbanks of the ...

Extract from the diary of Lady Maria Callcott visiting different parts of India from 1809-1811. Here, she describes the typical social lif...

The “thooLi’ as it is called in Tamil is still used by some mothers to rock their babies to sleep. As this old blogpost explains, “The tho...

The original story: A soldier leaving for battle was given a copy of the New Testament by his mother. She asked him to keep it wit...

The excellent blog, “Futility Closet” has this interesting story: The Treaty of Berlin was drafted in secrecy, so its framers were ...

In a creative process, inspiration can come from unexpected and unrelated sources. Dan Wieden, co-founder of the advertising agency   Wied...

Many years back, an old lady I knew got onto a wrong bus headed in a different direction. The merciless conductor insisted on collecti...