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The year was 1836. It was early April. Bithoor, a small town near Kanpur, was already beginning to feel the heat of a cruel summer. Two young girls of about eight ...

“Their King has lost his mind, the Kingdom is chaotic, their soldiers have no impetus and they are ruled by a Woman; it is the right time to take over their ...

1965! A year of unprecedented turmoil in Indo-Pak history. In April that year, a minor border dispute in the Rann of Kutch area had resulted in limited scale conflicts between the ...

It's been years since I attended a tambram wedding, so when I got an opportunity to attend, it was too tempting to refuse given my curiosity to study the evolution of ...

Quentin Tarantino is my favourite movie director and hence it is a no-brainer that when TFI admins were choosing director names as their code names, I chose Tarantino. Today is the ...

Why is Republic day celebrated? On 26th January 1950 the constitution of India came into force and India became a truly sovereign state and a totally republican unit. What is a ...

There are two things that define modern Indian culture more than anything else: Bollywood and cricket. Throughout my travels and years spent abroad the first thing that people mentioned to me ...

A strange conversationThrough the privilege of being a Reiki teacher, I often get to hear a lot of interesting statements from a large number of people. One of the conversations that ...

A couple of weeks earlier I attended the “Unladylike” show by Radhika Vas, where she explained in her one hour stand up that how she was educated by her mother to ...

 The first thing l do in the morning after reaching office is to open the TOI/Thehindu/Rediff websites and read news. This ordeal has been continuing for last 2 years or so. ...