Sriram Balasubramanian

The Straight Drive |

The poverty debate in the country reached a fever pitch ever since the Planning Commission accepted Prof Tendulkar's report which kept the poverty line at ...
04:43 PM, Oct 14, 2011

Tanuj Khosla

Straight Talk |

Apart from being the toughest place to get into, the IITs are probably the most talked about technical institutes by the citizens in any country. ...
03:27 PM, Oct 07, 2011

Rajen Garabadu

Voice Over |

It's a sad day for citizens of the world. Rarely does one get to see a single individual impacting so many lives across the world ...
11:17 AM, Oct 06, 2011

Dr Ramanan Laxminarayan

Doc Talk |

New data presented at the 1st Global Forum on Bacterial Infections in New Delhi this week showed that bacteria carrying the NDM-1 gene have been ...
05:06 PM, Oct 05, 2011

Ashwin Sanghi

Chanakya's Chant |

With Dussehra around the corner and an uneasy truce between the Home Minister and Finance Minister, Panditji's prediction is that the 'devil' lies in the ...
01:30 PM, Sep 30, 2011

Nikita Mishra

Health-y-Hiatus |

How different could a 23-year-old Mumbaikar be? So I thought, before I met Pramod, an animator by profession. Stuck in a sort of limbo, a ...
04:34 PM, Sep 28, 2011

Brijesh Kalappa

Post Mortem |

Lawyers appearing in the Special Court trying the accused in the 2G Scam and those appearing for various parties in the Supreme Court affirm this ...
02:00 PM, Sep 27, 2011

Asiya Islam

The Second Sex |

One would think that the focal point of any university and the experience of being at university is the institution's library. Not for students of ...
07:29 PM, Sep 26, 2011

Ashwin Sanghi

Chanakya's Chant |

With so many political figures holed up in Tihar, the ones that are outside look pristine white, like the proverbial super-white shirt in a detergent ...
11:43 AM, Sep 26, 2011

Tuhin A Sinha

Unapologetically Right |

At the end of Narendra Modi's Sadbhawna fast, it is evident that Modi has taken a clear and decisive lead in pitching himself as BJP's ...
11:35 AM, Sep 26, 2011

Ashwin Sanghi

Chanakya's Chant |

Everyone seems to be changing their game these days. Is it an effect of Rahul Gandhi's "game changer" comment? This week's Chanakya's Chant wonders who ...
05:23 PM, Sep 23, 2011

Palki S Upadhyay

Palki's Space |

LK Advani is officially pulling out of the race for prime ministership. Or is he? He has said he's happy as a party worker. An ...
06:39 PM, Sep 21, 2011

Soumyadip Choudhury

Pixelated |

The single biggest reason I love the Oscars (apart from the fact that it's a traffic generator for the website I work for) is that ...
12:35 PM, Sep 17, 2011

Tathagata Bhattacharya

Master and a glass of Margarita |

A senior colleague of mine pinged me a Facebook post today. He was already facebooking and I was yet to hop on. Anyways, the post ...
04:32 PM, Sep 16, 2011

Sriram Balasubramanian

The Straight Drive |

A friend of mine messaged me a couple of days back on Facebook. The message was a succinct but terse expression of his grief on ...
01:14 PM, Sep 06, 2011

Uday Sahay

Uday's Space |

The writing on the wall is loud and clear. The communication machinery, method, strategy, substance and speed of the Government of India (GoI) require a ...
03:55 PM, Sep 05, 2011

Ashwin Sanghi

Chanakya's Chant |

This depicts the traditional Indian custom of appending the suffix "Ji" to each and every name that we come across. Enjoy it Ji. ...
01:49 PM, Aug 22, 2011

Sharadiya Dasgupta

Fashion Flaneur |

Why in Christ's name would I want to write about love now, of all times? As Rick would say "With the whole world crumbling, we ...
01:23 PM, Aug 20, 2011

Dakshina Muraleedharan

Southsayer |

Things were going well for Oommen Chandy after the initial hiccups of forming a UDF government with the macho allies. His ambitious 100-day governance program ...
04:29 PM, Aug 10, 2011

Sriram Balasubramanian

The Straight Drive |

Education in India is a conundrum. A few years back my cousin just completed her 12th standard and she had a percentage of 94.2; a ...
11:37 AM, Aug 10, 2011