Shabia Ravi Walia

Mamma Mania |

A few months back, my husband shocked me when he said that I should continue with my career while he would stay at home to ...
01:19 PM, Oct 10, 2011

Amrita Tripathi

Borgub's Lair |

What is it about literary festivals? The thought of one can drive some people into rhapsodies, or have others pull their hair out, and that's ...
01:19 PM, Oct 05, 2011

Sriram Balasubramanian

The Straight Drive |

I had left my office at about 730pm and I was thinking about my chat with my colleague earlier in the day. We were discussing ...
01:41 PM, Sep 23, 2011

Jaimon Joseph

Connect |

Imagine a Facebook for scientists...A place where chemists, physicists, biologists, pharmaceutical experts all hang out. Where they upload notes, photos and detailed simulations from their ...
12:59 PM, Sep 23, 2011

Shiv Visvanathan

Excess Baggage |

Narendra Modi's fast is the most misunderstood event of the year. This essay would like to argue that the fast has little connection with the ...
04:24 PM, Sep 19, 2011

Shiv Visvanathan

Excess Baggage |

Narendra Modi is always in the news but news about Modi is always read differently by different people. The facts looked simple. The Supreme ...
05:51 PM, Sep 16, 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

Rajdeep Sardesai

Newsman |

"Why don't you cover Irom Sharmila's decade-old fast with the same intensity as you did Anna Hazare's 13-day fast?" asked Binalakshmi Nepram, the founder of ...
12:02 AM, Sep 09, 2011

Jaimon Joseph

Connect |

This is rather late in the day. But about two months back, I saw something I haven't been able to forget completely. It's a ...
04:41 PM, Sep 05, 2011

Shabia Ravi Walia

Mamma Mania |

It's been hardly a decade that the term fatherhood has been implying more than just fathering a child or paying for your child's education. Truly, ...
02:07 PM, Sep 05, 2011

Jhinuk Sen

Mostly Harmless |

Ever since its inception in 2005 - Facebook has come a long way. A lot has changed in the interface, the applications have doubled and ...
07:35 PM, Aug 23, 2011

Jhinuk Sen

Mostly Harmless |

Twitter saved lives in the tragic moments after the Mumbai blasts last month and Facebook gave a platform to the Egypt-Libya uprisings. Blackberry Messengers seems ...
06:51 PM, Aug 11, 2011

Iram Mirza

Stylemonger |

Year - 1895. The sound of gusty wind was almost deafening. It was the darkest winter that Austria had ever seen. But that did ...
12:05 PM, Jul 28, 2011

Iram Mirza

Stylemonger |

So the ancient legend goes like this... Many were seduced and tempted by the elusive 'Elixir of Youth'. Others billed it as just an ...
02:03 PM, Jul 26, 2011

Iram Mirza

Stylemonger |

Did I just time travel? Or those innumerable cups of coffee had some sinister substance in it. Is it for real? I ...
05:15 PM, Jul 25, 2011

Iram Mirza

Stylemonger |

It was a lazy Sunday afternoon when the protagonist of this story walked languidly past the pastel fronted terraces of Notting Hill strolling into the ...
04:30 PM, Jul 25, 2011

Soumyadip Choudhury

Pixelated |

Summer of 2001. Bhopal. Bharat Talkies. Dil Chahta Hai. A decade later the experience is still as fresh. On that overcast afternoon, I stepped ...
07:39 PM, Jul 22, 2011

Saurav Jha

Geek At Large |

...and the environmentalists flinched. The other day I came across an elaborate advertisement for carbon friendly suits, and it got me investigating. ...
11:08 AM, Jul 17, 2011

Tathagata Bhattacharya

Master and a glass of Margarita |

Over the last one year, the present UPA government has got used to being periodically bombarded by exposes of innumerable cases of financial irregularities. The ...
06:24 PM, Jun 08, 2011

Sumon K Chakrabarti

CHAKRAVIEW |

As they say, every cloud has a silver-lining. This cloud in Kungming had one. It was overcast when we landed early morning, to be replaced ...
12:35 PM, Jun 07, 2011