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Against role models
May 18, 2026, 3:34 PM IST
If Hitler told you a good joke, would you laugh? It’s an uncomfortable question, one that makes us squirm a little. After all, who can laugh with a monster? But what if the joke was…
May 18, 2026, 3:34 PM IST
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FROM TOI PRINT EDITION
Writing without a writer?
May 4, 2026, 6:54 AM IST
We have always mistaken eloquence for intelligence. It is an easy mistake to make, for the assured use of written language has indicated that someone is in control of one’s thoughts and is able to…
May 4, 2026, 6:54 AM IST
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Easing experience?
April 20, 2026, 4:38 PM IST
One can think of modernity as an eraser. We first classify nature as a form of friction. And then set about removing that friction. Hills, heat, crowds, waiting, bad roads, rain, bad air, noise. All…
April 20, 2026, 4:38 PM IST
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Three pasts of present
April 13, 2026, 3:02 PM IST
What was once a food meant for those who could afford nothing else is back as a superfood of choice. Millets are now seen as a food for those with evolved tastes. As are jowar,…
April 13, 2026, 3:02 PM IST
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Pain: The price of being human?
April 6, 2026, 5:22 PM IST
What is the point of pain? Particularly of extreme pain? That pain has a function is clear—it is a warning sign—to stop what one is doing, to take notice, to seek help. But extreme pain…
April 6, 2026, 5:22 PM IST
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Woman who was too interesting
March 31, 2026, 2:06 PM IST
On social media, there is a controversy raging around an unusual person. She is an Instagram reels sensation unlike any other. A married woman from rural Bengal who gives us a peek into her daily…
March 31, 2026, 2:06 PM IST
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In a black-and-white world, stardust was colour
March 30, 2026, 12:11 PM IST
For a certain generation, magazines held a magic that is difficult to imagine now. It was the closest we had to the idea of holding a world in our hands. The world depicted in the…
March 30, 2026, 12:11 PM IST
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The newness of the new generation
March 23, 2026, 8:03 AM IST
In a recent research study that I was involved in, we examined the content consumption of the coming generation, what has been labelled Gen Alpha, and found something interesting. This is a generation being brought…
March 23, 2026, 8:03 AM IST
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All’s unfair in war?
March 16, 2026, 8:24 AM IST
At one level, one can think of the Iran war in familiar terms. The parallels with the WMD-driven Iraq wars are many. The same device of a prefigured justification, the gradual escalation of involvement, the…
March 16, 2026, 8:24 AM IST
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The Bureaucratic Lie?
March 9, 2026, 3:25 PM IST
Whenever we think about bureaucracy, it is almost always with a sense of frustration. It seems designed to thwart us, to slow things down and drown us in an incomprehensible cascade of very specific requirements….
March 9, 2026, 3:25 PM IST
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The names of air?
February 9, 2026, 8:53 PM IST
We live in a world inhabited by people with names like Anaya, Alaya, Ahaana, Aarav, Vivaan, Revaan, Rian and Saanvi, to name just a few. There is a distinct phonetic universe that they reside in,…
February 9, 2026, 8:53 PM IST
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The Ganga as metaphor
February 2, 2026, 8:24 AM IST
The travel writer Bill Aitken tells a story about the Ganga. He was walking down its banks with an Indian friend, who decided, on the spur of the moment, to take to take a dip…
February 2, 2026, 8:24 AM IST
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The civic dog
January 26, 2026, 2:30 PM IST
The dog takes up a special place in human imagination. It is a pet to be adored as well as a beast to be feared. For dog lovers, the dog gives something that no one…
January 26, 2026, 2:30 PM IST
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The soft time of our lives?
January 12, 2026, 2:38 PM IST
A few weeks ago, this column looked at how time has changed in shape and form. We now have two kinds of time— hard, that comes with fixed boundaries and imposes itself on us, and…
January 12, 2026, 2:38 PM IST
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Whose Gig is it anyway?
January 5, 2026, 11:47 AM IST
Is the gig economy all that different from the informal economy? The question matters because labels smuggle in theories. ‘Gig economy’ arrives with a particular story: flexibility, choice, entrepreneurial agency. But in India, even when…
January 5, 2026, 11:47 AM IST
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FROM TOI PRINT EDITION
Celebrating, cerebrally
October 20, 2025, 7:33 AM IST
It’s time to have that argument again – about crackers and their role in poisoning the air. But rather than revisit the argument itself, it’s worth asking what is really at work here. Traditionalists defend…
October 20, 2025, 7:33 AM IST
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The freedom to honk?
July 21, 2025, 11:56 AM IST
It is only when one returns from abroad that the honking on Indian roads—that unrelenting insistent sound emanating from all quarters— registers as something abnormal. It is an aberration, one that reveals so much about…
July 21, 2025, 11:56 AM IST
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The cruise as form
July 14, 2025, 6:51 PM IST
Travel is India’s new big passion. There was a time when international travel was a distant dream, which we hunted for in our palms, asking astrologers hopefully— any foreign travel? Now, even for the middle…
July 14, 2025, 6:51 PM IST
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The uncommon misery of the common cold
June 30, 2025, 3:47 PM IST
It begins with a suspicion — a sniffle that might not be one, or a vague tickle in the throat that’s probably just dust. An occasional sneeze. The script now writes itself. Dark clouds gather….
June 30, 2025, 3:47 PM IST
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The Secret Life Of Fruit
June 23, 2025, 3:52 PM IST
The mango season is fading away, and the day loses its sweet anticipation. The plump litchi has all but vanished, and the shy jamun, already elusive, retreats into memory. It is as if the pleasures…
June 23, 2025, 3:52 PM IST
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