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Come fly with me

May 22, 2026, 5:00 AM IST

On a recent flight, a co-passenger was a stowaway seeking illegal entry into Italy I’d never been on a flight on which one of my fellow passengers was a stowaway, a ticketless traveller. The flight…

May 22, 2026, 5:00 AM IST

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Roadside recipes

May 20, 2026, 8:26 AM IST

Thanks to chaat, Indian cuisine is literally streets ahead of the competition India’s food is as varied as are its people, in their customs and their clothes, their languages and their creeds. Among this daunting…

May 20, 2026, 8:26 AM IST

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The bot and I

May 15, 2026, 9:34 AM IST

AI is making the distinction between man and machine increasingly indistinct To research a column, I tried to access a site that I thought might be helpful. Before the site could open, a message flashed…

May 15, 2026, 9:34 AM IST

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Dash it all

May 13, 2026, 7:30 AM IST

Even as India is poised to launch its first human spaceflight mission, Gaganyaan, social media has embarked on a very different type of space exploration – the use of horizontal lines of varying length to…

May 13, 2026, 7:30 AM IST

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Dadi’s gift

May 8, 2026, 8:59 AM IST

She left all of us a priceless legacy – together with an equally great responsibility She was Dadi to all those fortunate enough to know her. Bunny and I were lucky in that we got…

May 8, 2026, 8:59 AM IST

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Namaste blessing

May 6, 2026, 8:42 AM IST

Long before the Covid pandemic made physical contact with others in the form of the Western handshake a no-no for fear of infection, the namaste, the salutation of bidding ‘Welcome’ and ‘Farewell’, had a truly…

May 6, 2026, 8:42 AM IST

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General ignorance

May 1, 2026, 7:33 AM IST

Should general knowledge be renamed general ignorance? According to Global Language Monitor, a new word to describe a new thing, in fields as diverse as science and slang, is coined every 98 minutes, resulting in…

May 1, 2026, 7:33 AM IST

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Questionable democracy

April 29, 2026, 7:39 AM IST

Democracy is always a question mark, often an exclamation point, but never a full stop because democracy’s work is never done. Democracy constantly reinvents itself, and India’s democracy, the largest in the world, is working…

April 29, 2026, 7:39 AM IST

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Portrait of a lady

April 24, 2026, 8:43 AM IST

A grand dame of Kolkata’s Park Street prepares to celebrate her 100th birthday Even as she prepares to turn 100 next year, a grand lady of Park Street in Kolkata remains as vibrant and vivacious…

April 24, 2026, 8:43 AM IST

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What’s your vert?

April 22, 2026, 8:10 AM IST

Automobile tycoon Henry Ford once famously said that you could have his popular car in any colour you wanted – provided it was black. Modern psychology is more liberal in granting us a choice of…

April 22, 2026, 8:10 AM IST

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EOL industry

April 17, 2026, 8:54 AM IST

Inbuilt obsolescence makes us buy newer & newer things The other week, my cell phone began to act up, refusing to download an app I needed, and generally being moody and cantankerous. I took it…

April 17, 2026, 8:54 AM IST

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Strait shooting

April 15, 2026, 7:55 AM IST

Trump unleashes a verbal flank attack on Iran’s control of a crucial waterway The two-member Supreme Council of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard holding an emergency meeting, about a verbal assault made by US prez, which involves…

April 15, 2026, 7:55 AM IST

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Paperless loo

April 1, 2026, 5:00 AM IST

To help save the planet, more people are switching from wipe to wash TP or not TP; that is the question. Had Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, been around today, that’s the way he might have…

April 1, 2026, 5:00 AM IST

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Big bad bullies

March 30, 2026, 8:40 AM IST

On a malign force that has the world worrying Early warning signals are flashing. A big bad bully is rolling up its sleeves, and is all set to go into action, making people in many…

March 30, 2026, 8:40 AM IST

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Timed out

March 27, 2026, 5:00 AM IST

That’s what happened to me when my watch stopped working, and was sent off to be fixed A few weeks ago, I ran out of time, literally. My watch suddenly stopped working, and had to…

March 27, 2026, 5:00 AM IST

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Labour pains

March 23, 2026, 5:00 AM IST

Thanks to AI, we may have too much leisure  Workers of the world, relax, you have nothing to lose but your chores. The AI apocalypse looming over the world gives the Marxist rallying call a…

March 23, 2026, 5:00 AM IST

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War and peas

March 18, 2026, 7:22 AM IST

Much to its indignant distaste, India is willy-nilly getting a taste, literally, of the conflict raging in Iran and neighbouring countries.  Iran’s blocking of Strait of Hormuz, which overnight has become an international buzzword, and…

March 18, 2026, 7:22 AM IST

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We’ve been warned

March 13, 2026, 5:00 AM IST

Watching a movie could soon be very frightening I’m watching a TV series in which one of the main characters, a hard-bitten Texas oilman, is a chain-smoker, barely stubbing out one cigarette before lighting another….

March 13, 2026, 5:00 AM IST

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Thook de, India!

March 11, 2026, 5:00 AM IST

On lending a splash of post-colonial colour to London London was in a pother, and the legendary British stiff upper lip was noticeably aquiver. The causes of this disquiet were great blood-red splatters appearing everywhere,…

March 11, 2026, 5:00 AM IST

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Bare to dare

March 6, 2026, 5:00 AM IST

From Delhi’s AI Summit to Maoris, protesters have put skin in the game In a demonstration that raised both eyebrows and hackles, some members of Youth Congress gate-crashed the recent AI Summit in Delhi, and…

March 6, 2026, 5:00 AM IST

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