Trump names Karoline Leavitt as White House press secretary

Washington DC: US President-elect Donald Trump on...

Urban Stone Soup: Stirring the pot, but where’s the meal?

I had heard a story about ‘Stone...

‘Rahul wants Uddhav as Maharashtra Chief Minister’

MVA has resolved the succession issue, with...

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The story of an accident and a state-led child confiscation

This week, a US-based grandmother writes about how unethical medical practices exacerbated her daughter’s condition, which further led to her grandson being taken away...

Best Wedding Venues in Mumbai

It is possible to book wedding venues in Mumbai via the help of wedding.net. The company has been in business for long, and they...

India has a true friend in White House: Trump to Modi

India and the US on Monday reiterated their commitment to cooperate in the fight against international terrorism even as the two sides agreed to...

Ujjain’s Simhastha Kumbh offers a lifetime experience for devotees

Kumbh Mela is held at each of the four places namely Haridwar, Allahabad (Prayag), Nasik and Ujjain once in every 12 years. It is...

An anthology that celebrates paws, claws and canine interventions

DOGS! An Anthology (2014)Editors: Vidyun Sabhaney and Jeremy StollCaptain Bijli Comics / Authors UpfrontMy best friend is a person formerly petrified of dogs. It's not...

A stroll through Paris, with guest appearances aplenty

In The Museum of Innocence, Orhan Pamuk created a museum about a person, built from memory and artefacts. Edmund White's The Flaneur is a literary museum, dedicated...

An Aussie burra sahib on sick leave in paradise

The Himalaya ClubJohn LangSpeaking TigerPages: 136Price: 199Pretty much every major hill station in modern-day India still has some remnant of its colonial past that it clings...

Millar’s Soviet Man of Steel and his Stalinist brand of communism

Superman: Red Son (2003)Writer: Mark MillarArtist: Dave Johnson, Kilian PlunkettDC ComicsThere is a school of thought (explained most famously in M. Night Shyamalan's Unbreakable) that...

New adventures in Spanish cuisine with Chef Vidal

There are many things to love about Spain, and its food is not on the bottom of that list. No surprise then, that it's...

Why literature cannot be a moral lesson for anyone

Reading fiction, in the busy context of modern life, is a waste of time, second only to reading poetry. The activity demands of us...

Music review: Are you a psycho killer? Scream it!

Hello? Does anyone know what's going on with Muse? They've been steadily reaching for an overdramatic, over-elaborate, over-theatrical (borderline self-parodic) version of themselves since...

The dummies’ guide to MSG

No, this article is not about the film of the same name (Messenger of God) or its fans. If that were the case, the...

‘Stark criticism’ and sweet-sounding nothings at a writers’ circle

Nestled snugly in a discreet little corner of a popular bookstore in central Delhi, I recently attended what I'd been promised would be four...

Living in this big, beautiful world

Florence has always been associated with themes of death, escape and glorious flights of fancy. But How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful (HB, HB,...

Turning 30: Why the fourth decade of your life is a demographic black hole

Our attempts to make sense of life invariably come to an impasse when we are confronted with the passage of time. The idea of...

Cruising through the Doon Valley in a Honda Mobilio RS

Come summer, and the idea on everyone's mind is to head to a cool getaway far from the sweltering heat of the plains. Our...

Skirting the issue: Gender fluid fashion takes over

Girls can wear jeans and cut their hair short, wear shirts and boots, 'cause it's okay to be a boy, but for a boy...

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