'I have grown some steel in my psyche'

'I'm 79 + now, and I've been doing all this since my late 20s.''Sometimes the ideological war extends to the home as well.''Many nights I couldn't sleep when someone close to me uttered the......

Leave Them Kids Alone!

The future belongs to the young, not the old, asserts Shyam G Menon. IMAGE: Kindly note this image has only been posted for representational reasons. photograph: ANI Photo   On August 29,......

Full Text: President's joint address to both houses of Parliament

Here's the full text of President's Ram Nath Kovind's address to the joint sitting of both houses of Parliament on the first of Budget Session 2022. IMAGE: A word cloud of President Ram Nath......

'India Must Read Gail Omvedt's Writings'

'After Ambedkar, Dr Gail was the only writer who wrote critically on caste issues.' Dr Gail Omvedt, the legendary commentator on Dalit and caste issues, passed into the ages on Wednesday, August......

Meet Ajit Pai, the man at the center of the US net neutrality debate

The chief of America's Federal Communications Commission is not a fan of net neutrality.So what's his vision of communications and digital policy in these times?We find out... IMAGE: Ajit Pai at a......

Credibility chart: Indians have faith in govt and military

Religious leaders come last, with corporations featuring slightly better in the list Indians give more credence to the central government and the military, more than the media, human rights......

Time to end tax havens: Richest 1% own 58% of India's total wealth

Globally, just 8 billionaires have same amount of wealth as the poorest 50% of the world population. In signs of rising income inequality, India's richest 1 per cent now hold a huge 58 per cent of......

How Virat Kohli cracked the Rs 100-crore league

There is more to the cricketer’s rise in brand valuation than his cracking form on the cricket field, notes Sandeep Goyal Virat Kohli is today, without doubt, India’s premier human......

'If you have too many girls, that's a problem'

'If you don't have children, that's also a problem.''There's no right way to live because everybody has an opinion about your personal life, and how you should live.''You have to listen to them,......

11 BEAUTIFUL STORIES From Around The World

Aseem Chhabra lists his favourite films from the recent Toronto International Film Festival. As the pandemic situation began to improve and movie theatres opened up in North America, the Toronto......

Ghoul makes it terrifying to be a Muslim

'Any Muslim who shows even the slightest hint of revolutionary thought is marked as 'infected'.''At that point, he is taken to the nearest Detention Centre where a procedure called Reconditioning......

'Akshay has been my biggest cheerleader'

'My grandmother taking me to the jamatkhana was like a different world.''Like I had a key to a door which no one else seemed to have.''She doesn't take me anymore because she says I'm an......

Why swimming's transgender ruling is important to the sports world

IMAGE: FINA also agreed to work towards establishing an 'open' category for some events. Photograph: Costas Baltas/Reuters Why swimming's transgender ruling is important to the sports world......

Saudi princess vows to break 'societal norms', get more women into sport

IMAGE: Flag bearer Sulaiman Hamad of Saudi Arabia leads his team during the Opening Ceremony of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at Maracana Stadium on August 5, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Inage......