And there’s that whole dieting industry ready to 'help' you get your wallet so much thinner
22 May 2022 12:27 AM
I have no husband and I have no children and this apparently automatically means that I have a lot of time to spare
24 Apr 2022 1:02 AM
Dealing with grief is hard enough by itself, but often it is others who find your grief harder to deal with
26 Mar 2022 11:37 PM
What happens when you get to the last page of a book feeling a bit confused and intrigued?
20 Mar 2022 12:14 AM
We have learnt as a family that what we lack most terribly in India is geriatric care and an understanding of the last days of human life
20 Feb 2022 3:01 AM
These two cities, as Bombay, Mumbai, Calcutta, Kolkata, define my life
23 Jan 2022 2:09 AM
May the virus stop controlling us, and see you on the other side
19 Dec 2021 1:51 AM
I forgive all of you who still believe that in some golden age we lived for hundreds of years
21 Nov 2021 3:31 AM
The stranglehold of the pandemic was such that all societies now strain at the leash for freedom
24 Oct 2021 3:42 AM
Manoj was one of those people, one of the many we met in a short but harrowing journey from India to England this week
19 Sep 2021 2:26 AM
The old coins of 50 paisa and 25 paisa were called aath (eight) anna and char (four) anna
22 Aug 2021 2:28 AM
It was in the 2000s that this love for tennis was reborn to a fulltime obsession and it was Roger Federer who did it
25 Jul 2021 1:09 AM
My parents’ best friends had an Osibisa album they all loved, with the Afro-rock band’s signature psychedelic flying elephants on the cover
20 Jun 2021 7:34 AM
Those fables and fairy tales told to children follow similar patterns: that adults can be evil, you have to look out for yourself
16 May 2021 8:02 AM
After you reach a certain age and size, in my case at least, your thoughts turn to another age and size, largely imaginary
18 Apr 2021 12:00 AM
'Covid-19' does not just tackle the pandemic from scientific perspective but looks at historic, social and psychological angles as well
11 Apr 2021 8:34 AM
I really learnt how to cook by experimentation. And by eating. To replicate tastes and memories
21 Mar 2021 4:27 AM
'Our Hindu Rashtra' is more a presentation of our recent history from the perspective of democracy
28 Feb 2021 4:09 AM
Dehradun has no buzz. It has higgledy-piggledy growth. Almost none of it is organic
21 Feb 2021 4:37 AM
As an adolescent, like most others, I wrote those poems. Emotions crystallized in show-off nonsense from studying literature
17 Jan 2021 4:14 AM