You know your age has passed the halfway house and it is all downhill from now on when: * People tell you to take it easy, slow down, you are not getting any younger, lean back a bit – and you hate them for saying it. Everyone
Across the world, every year 60mn young girls become brides before they are old enough to understand marriage and related responsibilities. Of this disturbingly large number, 1/3rd are from India. While we&
Survey is flavour of the season, and everyone’s doing it, I am told by news channels and newspapers. Being the copycat I decided to copy-paste the idea and do a survey of my own. The survey sample included everyone from my neighbourhood, bar
A road trip on the highways is generally considered a pleasurable experience and a perfect getaway with picturesque surroundings, wide roads, minimal traffic and hence less nuisance but all that fun can be short-lived if one does not remain vigila
This is funny; like a group of boys playing together. First make chemical weapons, then find out a body which works to stop their use, and then give it the Nobel Peace Prize. In 2009, this prize went to Barack Obama, apparently for his efforts to
You know your age has passed the half¬way house and it is all downhill from now on when: People tell you to take it easy, slow down, you are not getting any younger, lean back a bit - and you hate them for saying it. Everyone has advic
Research across the globe on the risk factors that cause breast cancer has noted lifestyle as the key explanation. WHO also recognises that increasing urbanisation and adoption of western lifestyle contribute to the increasing incidence of breast
It is indeed “Sweet September” for an enthusiast of Right to Information. The struggle and sustained advocacy paid off when the government decided to refer the RTI amendment bill to the parliamentary standing committee on personal, pub
The free fall that the rupee experienced in the last couple of months spooked the markets, the investors and the government. The government constantly kept assuring the markets that it was only an aberration but the reality is different. It defini
September 29 marks another day in the ‘frosty’ Indo-Pak relations. Frosty, in fact, has been the state of the weather on both the line of control (LoC) and the line of communication, despite the change of venues over the years (primari
Shubha Sarma, an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer, is inspired by Tolstoy, Chekov, O Henry and Indian literary greats like Premchand and Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay. Like these literary greats, Sarma has woven compelling narrative of sh
This week the sun went down and the night came riding in. The world went crazy. Madmen attacked a US naval base in the capital. Terrorists from Somalia mowed down nearly 70 people in a Nairobi mall even as crack troops prepared to launch an attack
Today is World Gratitude day. Seriously, I kid you not. Bet you had no idea. And why should we seeing as how we are generally so ungrateful and while we keep rabbiting on about counting our blessings we never really do that…until things go
I am on a visit to Singapore. September 16 was the 90th birthday of Mr Lee Kuan Yew, considered the Founding Father of Singapore. He was the first prime minister when Singapore became independent in 1965 and stepped down in 1994, making way for yo
As portentous war clouds loom over the Arab belt, as global markets tumble on febrile fears over petroleum and as a sweaty world sits at the precipice of yet another potential calamity, in the US of A many sensitive and sensible folks must be rack
What’s the big fuss about? An American has won the Miss America title. So good. I am happy for Nina Davuluri whose first statement on being crowned was, “I am an American.” Right on, lady, you are. So why are all t
By becoming Miss America, Nina Davuluri, an American woman of Indian descent and who wants to ostensibly become a cardiologist, has inadvertently set a thousand tongues and twitter handles rolling, and set the media – both the social and pre
Is social media responsible for aggravating communal tension in Muzaffarnagar, leading to killing of over 50 people? If you go by the opinion of the state government, the answer is an unambiguous ‘yes’. Though this was t
On September 8, Tripura’s unassuming chief minister Manik Sarkar announced that the tiny northeast Indian state is India’s most literate state. At 94.65 percent (based on final assessments by all districts), literacy r
Recently there was a ‘Festival of Madurai Cuisine’ at a swanky hotel here in Chennai, and as a Madurai person myself my first reaction was one of immense happiness, primarily over the fact that someone had managed to put Madurai and cu
