Kangana Runout is all over the news these days like a bad rash , there’s just no getting away from her interviews, statements and tweets. I find her very refreshing in these morbid days of rapes, lynchings, bridge collapses, encounters, defections and states going bankrupt. What is enlivening in her utterings is the novel perspective […]

Himachal Pradesh should regulate trekking to make it safe and eco-friendly, writes Avay Shukla On the night of 17 July, about 120 trekkers were stranded below the 14,000-foot high Hampta Pass in Himachal, without adequate shelter, clothing or food, in very adverse weather conditions, torrential rain and almost sub-zero temperatures. They were members of three

by Mikael Gislen of My path was vastly different before I embraced the adventure defining my life. I grew up in a small village in Sweden and, in the summers, I worked on the neighbour’s farm to get some pocket money. I was lucky to get into IT early and had a short career in

Khushwant Singh is a household name for those in the Indo-Pak literary sphere. The Khushwant Singh Literary Festival ran for its 6th session in June 2024 with the theme ‘Heal The World’. Mr Fakir Aijazuddin OBE, a renowned Pakistani art historian and curator of Sikh Art, paid tribute to his friend Khushwant Singh, describing their

In the reasoning of most right thinking people who are alarmed at the direction in which the BJP is taking the country the primary validity and defendability of the TMC govt. in West Bengal stems from its proven ability to keep the BJP at bay in that state. Mamata Banerjee has done this for the

It took our solitary Olympic gold medallist Arshad Nadeem to remind us of that old adage: Success has a thousand fathers; Failure is born an orphan. No matter how many awards, honours, cash prizes and amenity plots may be bestowed upon him, it is clear that Arshad’s achievement in Paris was singularly his own. His

Emile Borel, a famous French mathematician in the first half of the 20th century, had propounded the Infinite Monkey Theorem which stated that if a monkey is given a typewriter and allowed to pound away on its keys for an indefinite amount of time it would, sooner or later, produce the complete works of Shakespeare.

A mortician’s job is to carry out cosmetic enhancements to a deceased’s body and to make it presentable before burial. It is different from that of a coroner whose responsibility is to find out the cause of death. In India, all governments- state or central, past or present, majority or coalition- have always modelled themselves