Guest Column

I am just back from my annual pilgrimage to the Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF), soaked with a delectable and eclectic mix of literature, art and music. I am charged with...

In the waning sunlight before dusk, the bus was crawling up a steep, narrow road that spiralled around the mighty Kalinga Ghat. The side seat on the front right provided...

Do you experience extreme anxiety during a flight? Your heart beats faster when your flight travels over water bodies or mountains. Or the entire duration of the flight. What if...

Relive an entire day in the life of a woman in a city or try to imagine one. Right from leaving the house, waiting for public transport in a bus...

Scorching the artificial turf in front of 20,000 boisterous fans in Rourkela, now accepted as hockey’s own home, has been a new experience for the world’s elite hockey players. The...

Paint him as the biggest villain in human history if you please, but give the devil his due. Adolf Hitler was a deeply perceptive person with a keen understanding of...

Can you calculate the value of goodwill? PRICELESS! Does goodwill get its due? As a quality, it is underrated and undervalued. You seldom comprehend its potential even when you have...

In recognising the link between population and development, India kick-started the Family Planning (FP) program in 1951, post-independence. The program kept evolving; however, the focus remained on ‘small family’ and...

Men peeing in the open is a common everyday sight in India. Most of the men even do it with gay abandon, caring two hoots for decency and propriety, carrying...

Sundays slid on listlessly on the campus all through the summer of 1987. Shops and stores being closed, there was nothing to do, at least not for the miniscule community...