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Winter is here. You feel it in the early morning nip in the air, the dryness of the skin and the lengthening duration of darkness. It's just the other day...

Trollocracy. Some call it the anarchist's utopia. A few would prefer the word dystopia. But everything in the universe is a matter of perception, isn't it? Actually it's democracy, post-modern...

'Bhakt' is a maligned word in our world. In the current definition, the word refers to a person prone to expressing excessive devotion to the subject of adoration. The devotion...

It's puzzling that the whodunnit genre has not really taken off in India. We love peeling off riddles wrapped around enigmas to discover the truth, don't we? We love to...

Hate them as much as you like. Summon the choicest words to describe them - unintelligent, ill-informed, mean, malicious, bhakt, chamcha whatever - but there is no way escaping them....

Six million up, and nothing in the COVID-19 trajectory assures us that it won't hit ten million in a couple of months. The number of deaths, a few thousands shy...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha's poor performance in the first-ever India Happiness Report 2020 has triggered a flood of memes by Odia netizens as well as scrutiny on the survey. Here are some...

Finally, the show is on. Players are bulkier, a tad lethargic, and a bit rusty. The stands miss the madness of frenzied fans, and the familiar bewildering melee of sound...

Ranchi: Have you ever thought what the post-corona world will look like? Trying different hand sanitizers and creams, wearing masks as a fashion accessory, writing essays on 'A Day In...

Four million up, and numbers no more shock. Everything else about the pandemic remaining where they were -- no vaccine, no cure, no jobs, no halt to the slide in...