An on-the spot report from R K Nagar Chennai Mar 29: The by-election to the R K Nagar Assembly constituency, to be held on April 12, has brought the focus back on Tamil Nadu politics that had gone silent after the drama-filled days of February that were more frenetic than the final overs in an IPL clash and more crowded and confusing… Read more →
*Kenyan-born Urjit Patel to train Indian long and middle-distance runners’ Bengaluru, Aug 24: It had to happen. With the market for outrage-triggering news reports and features reaching an all-time high, a Bengaluru-based startup has come up with an app that would reel out such stuff at the touch of a button. Announcing the launch of the app, which is appropriately… Read more →
The ICC and the BCCI seem to have come up with a crafty plan to save Test cricket by basically killing its competitor through, er, overkill. As per this strategy, we have three back-to-back T20 cricket tournaments (Asia Cup, World T20 and the IPL) that roughly involve 3672 matches over three months, so that by the end of it most… Read more →
This happened to you last year: You and your family set out for some eleventh-hour emergency supply of kurti/kajukatli/jeans/jalebi and were trapped in a traffic that seemed stuck from previous Deepavali and you firmly told yourself that next year you would do all your shopping much early and not be laid low by the maddening traffic. Tell you what, it’s… Read more →
Fully-realised sages and philosophers, after years and years of intense meditation at high mountains, have revealed to us that money is not everything in life. But those living in hilly forests amidst wild animals, which don’t understand money, couldn’t be expected to say anything else. On the other hand, if you ask thinkers and saints, who dwell amidst us in… Read more →
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