As a year slips into the yawning mouth of history, and as another is ready to be delivered from the womb of time, the abiding sentiment of the moment is one of great hope —- that 2012 indeed will be the last one. Because, more than anything else, these year-enders are a huge pain. The year-end compilations are a great… Read more →
Also: Sibal in talks with dictionary companies to pre-edit ‘outrageous words’ New Delhi: As the winter air thickens over the country, there is a palpable sense of chilly unease all around over the rapidly declining quality in scandals that the country is justly famous for. The country that once produced the hall-of-famer Bofors, which steadfastly supplied the primary headline-news to… Read more →
Since this weekend happens to be my birthday, I will not churlishly bring up the topic of Barkha Dutt brazenly copying stuff from me into her CV. After all, the true spirit of becoming a wizened middle-aged man lies in totally ignoring the petty things around you, and maturely focussing in on more relevant aspects of life, like how to… Read more →
Geneva: These are exciting times for science as researchers are close to spotting the ‘God particle’, which has the possibility to explain the presence of stars, planets, humans and Digvijay Singh. You can understand the euphoria among the physicists at the Europe’s CERN Laboratory near Geneva as this sub-atomic article has been ‘escaping the net’ for nearly three decades, even… Read more →
As the unmistakable nip of Margazhi, the month of classical arts and quaint culture, sets in over Chennai, the mellow air instantly becomes redolent of one thing that has given this city a unique flavour. And that one thing is the murky and miasmic smell wafting from the Cooum. Of course, Margazhi in Chennai is also the month of ‘The… Read more →
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