Guest Column

One of my earliest memories of the monsoons as a child is looking forward to School Rainy Days. We would wake up to overcast skies and a steady, yet non-threatening...

It was an unusual poetic ground. Poets belonging to different socio-cultural backgrounds and from diverse time zones make a common ideological space where humanity is celebrated as spirituality. What could...

You have to set the alarm at 5.30 am to have the best Chinese delicacies for breakfast at Tiretta Bazar, Kolkata (previously Calcutta). Strangely, this area is named after an...

A few days back when Ratan Tata said, “You don't know what it is to be lonely, until you spend time alone wishing for companionship”; to many of us that was...

The stubborn refusal of the Congress top leadership to revive the party is confounding indeed. Eight years after its biggest electoral debacle and three years after repeat performance, it is...

Have you lost your most prized possession during a journey? 21 years ago, my friend Sidharth Patnaik and I left my sister Babita’s house after a delightful dinner cooked by...

India which falls in the water scarcity zone of the world is getting more and more affected by water scarcity due to the quick increase of population along with rapid...

India has one of the largest agricultural lands in the world and a population exceeding 140 crores, with nearly 70% of people living on agricultural lands. Out of the total...

On a day that was supposed to infuse us with pride, achievement and joy as Indian citizens there were other appalling, shocking and unbelievable scenes unfolding in the Country -...

A recent UNEP article stated: “To combat the climate crisis and secure a safe future below 1.5°C, the world needs to cut emissions of planet-warming greenhouse gasses by 50 per...