OPINION

My friends consider me a wordsmith (I make no such claim). Even if I am one, I was left completely speechless (wordless, that is) at the beginning of the year...

One of the items that has been hogging business headlines the past few days is the Zomato IPO. And it should, in terms of what it implies, not just for...

It was on Mother’s Day that Prasad lost his mother to COVID-19. And this was but one of the tsunami of tragedies that hit our nation as the pandemic reared...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha seems to be sitting pretty with moderately exploited groundwater resources, coupled with a geographical advantage of abundant surface water. Odisha is projected to grow both economically and demographically....

Expect Jofra Archer to glide in like the sleekest car in the market and deliver the nastiest of hits on the helmet. Expect an ageing James Anderson to make the...

For every economist, there exists an equal and opposite economist, goes the joke. This realisation perhaps prompted another, often attributed to playwright and social commentator George Bernard Shaw: If all...

  The old, overarching vision of India is collapsing. It is too early to judge whether it is for good or bad. It was a construct powered by the intellectual...

Cricket can be a heartless game. More so when teams you adore hit a losing streak and leave you more disappointed with every fresh outing. Many fans carry unexplained sadness...

Who are you? Almost all of us have been asked this question in some form or other, at many points in our lives. We probably defaulted to our name, maybe...

The world is a cruel place; and the humankind can be incredibly spiteful. Actor Rhea Chakraborty, one of the key characters in possibly the biggest witch-hunt in modern Indian history,...