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It was a late December evening when my husband and I decided to go for a movie in the multiplex, next door to our house. As we were settling down...

Team India are in an enviable position of being 1-0 up in an away series in England at the end of two tests. It could very well have been 2-0...

I have always compared the art of her performance with the art of writing elegant hieroglyphs. You could sense the mystery and see the beauty of complete submission to the...

The news felt unreal as long as it came in an aerogramme. During the 15 to 20 days an aerogramme took to reach Norwich the news from home would go...

I was a Project Officer at Kolkata for Oxfam GB, a well-known humanitarian agency of Britain, when I got an offer from them to work for six months as an...

The Hong Kong restaurant, which is run by the Liu family, is one of Cuttack’s last surviving Cantonese Chinese joints. Incidentally, the Liu family has been cooking for the city...

As someone fascinated by technology, reading about the oldest computer in the world was a revelation. More than 120 years ago, in 1900, a shipwreck was discovered off the coast...

In July, 1985, I was posted to Dhenkanal division for my range training and division attachment. On the very first day of joining, I called on the district Collector  Priyabrat...

Australia has a population of 2.54 crore, but prides itself of a huge sporting culture. In the just-concluded Olympic Games in Tokyo, athletes from Down Under took home 46 medals,...

I was struggling to decide on a flavour of ice cream “Dulce De Leche”, which although sounded exotic gave me no idea of its content. A friend told me Dulce...