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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
Eight years ago, my daughter-in-law decided to get a dog. My son and she both work overseas but she wanted an Indian dog. So on one of their visits, she went to a dog shelter and picked out a puppy which, in due course, was taken to their home in Europe. But the dog could
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.
Looking beyond ‘correct’ and ‘incorrect’, particularly with regards to written texts. Where’s it coming from? What is it saying? Before
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
An adult human head weighs approximately 5kg. This considerable weight is balanced on the smallest and most mobile part of the spine, the eight cervical vertebrae that make up the neck. By the age of five, a child’s head has already reached almost adult size and weight. From then onwards,
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
To protect the human species, we need to protect our entire ecosystem, including every plant and animal. Wildlife conservation doesn’t resonate with most people. We are increasingly aware of global warming and the need to preserve our forests, but saving our wildlife doesn’t receive the same level of attention. While
