Guest Column

World Habitat Day 2021, to be observed on the first Monday of October like every year, offers an opportunity to reflect on the effects of the COVID-19 crisis, and also...

It’s Sunday and we look forward to a good lunch and dinner that includes a meat portion (due apology to the vegetarians and vegans). The meat component may be poultry...

With rapid progress in its industrial and socio-economic development, India needs more energy. The country's energy demand is constantly increasing and at present, fossil fuels like coal, oil, petrol, diesel...

Sometime in May-June 1992 I called on Forest Minister  Harishchandra Baxipatra and expressed my desire to go on central deputation. But his reaction was very sharp: “Why do you want...

Parents should zero on the paediatrician roughly during the second trimester of pregnancy, that is about three to five months before the baby’s arrival. This will give the parents a...

Lata Mangeshkar was born as Hema. Later she was renamed as Latika after a character in one of her father Pandit Dinanath Mangeshkar's plays. Her dad's original title was Hardikar...

In upper-middle-class and affluent Indian homes, there always used to be (and still is) an exclusive room called a Study. Historically, the Study was used as a room for reading, writing,...

The Nightingale of India, Lata Mangeshkar, popularly called Lata Didi, turned 92 on Tuesday.  India has two passions - Bollywood and Cricket - and Lata Didi has a very close...

In March 2020, Government of India put in place a bunch of measures like lockdown and shutdown to contain the spread of COVID-19 pandemic across the nation. It meant that...

The other day at school their fifth class English Sir was giving a lesson on anger. He recited a verse before writing it down on the blackboard. Anger is an...