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Aam Aadmi, Khas Identity

May 2, 2026, 8:30 AM IST

There is a revealing asymmetry in the way Indians relate to their foods. Dishes inspire loyalty. Recipes inspire argument. Ingredients inspire, at best, preference. But the mango, the aam, inspires something that has no clean…

May 2, 2026, 8:30 AM IST

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What The Woman In Worli Tells Us About Our Life

May 2, 2026, 8:21 AM IST

When I saw the video of the woman in Worli shouting at a minister, after a political rally trapped her in traffic, as she was trying to collect her child from school, I did not…

May 2, 2026, 8:21 AM IST

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Money heists: Bad guys adapt, so must good guys

May 1, 2026, 8:04 AM IST

RBI’s new discussion paper on “safeguards in digital payments” is a welcome attempt to address Authorised Push Payment (APP) fraud – scams where customers, under pressure or deception, authorise payments that rob them. But if…

May 1, 2026, 8:04 AM IST

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For your eyes only

May 1, 2026, 7:55 AM IST

Your smart TV is a mole. As TOI reported yesterday, it collects snapshots of everything you watch and hear, and sends them to ‘data brokers’, so that they can refine your profile, and sell it to advertisers….

May 1, 2026, 7:55 AM IST

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Document the horror

May 1, 2026, 7:43 AM IST

Odisha bank branch officials, who demanded proof-of-death of a woman from her brother, found a way around the lack of documents speedily enough, when he carried her skeletal remains to the bank. And that is…

May 1, 2026, 7:43 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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Buddha Purnima: Towards experiential wisdom

May 1, 2026, 7:28 AM IST

Vikas Bishnoi & Vipul Anekant On Buddha Purnima, when the full moon illuminates the night sky, we commemorate the birth, enlightenment, and parinirvan of Siddharth Gautam, and the radical liberation of human inquiry from the…

May 1, 2026, 7:28 AM IST

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Message beyond elections

April 30, 2026, 8:16 AM IST

Amusingly, electoral outcomes in eastern and southern states are far less surprising to those who live in them, than to those who interpret them, from Delhi. The ongoing contests in Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Assam and…

April 30, 2026, 8:16 AM IST

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For India to be strong, Indians must kindly adjust

April 30, 2026, 8:09 AM IST

For the first time since 1945, the world seems caught up in whirlpools of hot geopolitical contests. Instead of the neat cleavage (between Allies and Axis powers) in 1945, there are echoes of 1914, when…

April 30, 2026, 8:09 AM IST

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Cartel blanche

April 30, 2026, 7:57 AM IST

UAE’s decision to quit Opec may have come as a surprise, but it’s a good thing. For, Opec is nothing but a cartel, and cartels take a toll on customers. They’re everything free markets ought…

April 30, 2026, 7:57 AM IST

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Held together by haha

April 30, 2026, 7:48 AM IST

Charles arrived in America, on a mission to repair his island nation’s relationship with King D, somewhat inauspiciously. A man with a gun had gotten close enough to Donald, to raise fears of a JFK…

April 30, 2026, 7:48 AM IST

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Mango terrorism

April 30, 2026, 7:30 AM IST

‘Summer-time and the livin’ ain’t easy,/Summer-time and the mangoes are high.’ That’s my version of the Ella-Louis classic. April-May is hell in Mumbai if you don’t belong to majoritarian Aam-mangta party . A one-upmanship prevails:…

April 30, 2026, 7:30 AM IST

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The journey from attachment to inner bliss

April 30, 2026, 7:26 AM IST

Shri Shri Anandamurti In the constant flux of our lives, desire and detachment stand as two opposing yet deeply interconnected forces. Desire pulls the mind outward towards objects, achievements, and sensory pleasures, while detachment gently…

April 30, 2026, 7:26 AM IST

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What Bengal’s saying today

April 29, 2026, 8:22 AM IST

Mamata Banerjee’s record as chief minister of Bengal has been a mixed bag. After 15 years at the helm, her party faces strong anti-incumbency. Yet, for BJP, the principal opposition party in the state, the…

April 29, 2026, 8:22 AM IST

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Woods & shoulds

April 29, 2026, 8:05 AM IST

Sunday and Monday were infernally hot. Indian cities took the top 95 positions for day temperatures. And the hills promised no respite. They were hot, too, and burning. Reports of forest fires from Uttarakhand and…

April 29, 2026, 8:05 AM IST

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Docs who won’t listen

April 29, 2026, 7:56 AM IST

On paper, Indian women have a sympathetic law to access abortion. In practice, it is a permission slip that the medical establishment frequently refuses to sign, often persuading courts to also follow its lead. But…

April 29, 2026, 7:56 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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Changing gears: Move at what suits you best

April 29, 2026, 7:33 AM IST

By Rajashree Birla Recently, one has been reading a lot about student shootings. A student running amok, gunning down innocent lives mindlessly and then ebbing out his own. Largely overseas. In India, at many institutes…

April 29, 2026, 7:33 AM IST

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Are Bengal’s bhadraloks shifting towards BJP?

April 28, 2026, 8:51 AM IST

The second phase of Bengal election, on April 29, closer to Kolkata and its surrounding urban belt, is the harder test for BJP. Anger against Trinamool’s 15 years in office is no longer scattered, BJP…

April 28, 2026, 8:51 AM IST

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For the record

April 28, 2026, 8:41 AM IST

Sunday will go down in history like May 6, 1954, when Roger Bannister broke the 4-minute-mile barrier, or July 13, 1985, when Sergey Bubka pole-vaulted over 6m. It’s one of those rare days when humans…

April 28, 2026, 8:41 AM IST

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