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World Cup 2023: Team India’s Burden of Plenty
A few weeks to go for the ODI World Cup, Team India looks far from a settled, let alone formidable, unit. The experiments with different players and combinations in recent times and the…
Loving Unconditionally Is The Highest Form Of Life: Jayanta Mahapatra
As I was browsing through the news today, I got to know that one of my favourite personalities from Odisha, Jayanta Mahapatra, is no more. He was admitted to SCB Medical College and…
Nazakat & Nafasat: The Awesome Twosome In Kebabs
For any connoisseur of food – kebab will always remind them of the famous lines written by poet Ghulam Hamadan Mushafi ‘Sar e atish jo ashk rezaan thaa, kisi aashiq ki thi kabab mein jaan’ …
Saying Goodbye To A Job You Aren’t Meant For
Have you quit your job when pushed to do something alien to your nature?
Ten months into my first job, I faced this when my boss asked me to make cold calls to prospective clients offering…
Hindi Film Industry Back From The Doldrums; What Changed In 2023?
After a couple of years in the doldrums, the beleaguered Hindi film industry appears to have rediscovered its mojo. A series of commercially successful movies this year has dispelled the…
Bravo Supreme Court!
Finally, one of the most blatant practices of gender discrimination through the use of archaic, derogatory, and patriarchal words and language has been taken into cognizance, and remedial…
Brown Bread Are Same As White Bread
Morning hours are busy for any Omfed outlet. Customers pick up a loaf of brown bread after having their regular quota of tea. Little do customers realise that switching to brown bread from…
Concealed In Mystery: Unsigned Words With Lasting Impact
How would you feel if people you know wrote nice things about you but you couldn’t identify who wrote what?
This is precisely how I felt 12 years ago and again last week.
Before moving to…
Din, Chaos, & Shrinking Civility In Parliament: Why Lawmakers Must Find A Way…
Young minds keen on deeper knowledge on the functioning and processes of Indian democracy would have imbibed wrong lessons watching Parliament at work this monsoon session. Venerable…
The Battlefield Of Women’s Bodies
Some of the most dangerous, depraved and damaging battles are fought not on the battlefields, but on women’s bodies. It doesn’t take much during conflicts and wars to turn women’s bodies…