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Have you ever wondered why educated Indians love to talk authoritatively about things they know nothing of? When such an issue comes up, which is quite often, why don’t they just say “sorry, it’s a technical subject about which I know nothing, so I will keep my mouth tightly shut?” Has this tendency become even
Language and dress can be highly interlinked. This came home to me many years ago when I took the short flight from Chennai to Coimbatore. I was wearing a dhoti because my trousers were all unwearable, being dirty because I had been travelling for nearly 10 days. My plan was to get the trousers dry
Once a year my wife and I visit Switzerland where my son and his family live. It’s a very expensive country where a very basic meal for four in a restaurant can cost around ₹25,000 and a train journey of 200km around ₹10,000 per person. Of course, a part of this is because the Indian
Recently I came across a highly popular TV show in which some people were competing to cook something. The competition was about making a dish with two separate flavours in one dish. In India we call it fusion and in Gurgaon where I live, there is a restaurant that specialises in such dishes. Some of
Monisha Rajesh shares the delights and discoveries of travelling by sleeper all over the world. If you like to travel,
This is the story of innocence fatally lured by and enmeshed in an intricate web of duplicity spawned by overweening
Such joy scanning the shelves and buying books from the most amazing bookshop ever… in a city named for Roman
…with the sound of gunfire, the Inter-Continental Kabul is one place that offers a chance of survival… “… there was
They’re not comics, they’re a way of life. They show a way of living, according to Japanese and other fans.
Our bodies are designed to fight disease, whether from a viral or bacterial infection or an injury that causes tissue damage and bleeding. As soon as the body is attacked, its army of white blood cells (WBCs) rushes to the affected area. Some WBCs engulf and destroy invading organisms, while
How often have you, like many others, woken up in the morning with stiff joints and aches all over? Sometimes this follows an unusually strenuous day. At other times, no obvious precipitating cause can be found. If the symptoms do not disappear after three or four days, or several episodes
Both urban and rural regions need access to clean cooking solutions to bring down air pollution. Since the onset of the Israel-US-Iran war, every neighbourhood has been worrying about or contemplating the shortage of LPG or cooking gas and the slowing down of its delivery to households in the future.
Microclimate zones determine the temperature in your neighbourhood. Have you wondered why the meteorological department’s maximum and minimum temperatures seems to be at variance from one part of the city to another? Some places are noticeably hotter than what the weather reports indicate, while others are much cooler by a
With the government pushing for EV adoption, your next car is most likely to be a non-fossil fuel one. It is now abundantly clear that electric vehicles (EV) will be the mode of transport in the immediate future. If you have any doubts, then the Delhi Electric Vehicle Policy 2026
