I wanted to be a copywriter, but my first full-time job was of a copyeditor and now am a concoction of a reporter, subeditor, photographer, researcher and an occasional webmaster.…Continue Reading →
Bhopal usually reminds us Indians of two things. The first, the world’s worst industrial disaster – the deadly cloud of…
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We usually are under the impression that our elected representatives are a bunch of sly uneducated sycophants. The first and the last qualifications are usually undebatable, but the in-between is…Continue Reading →
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Between 1727 and 1734 Maharajah Jai Singh II of Jaipur constructed five astronomical observatories in west central India. The observatories,…
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Was reading a old Times of India article (December 8, 1996) by Swaminathan S Anklesaria Aiyar – one of the…
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The tricolour has unfurled for the sixtieth August 15 on the Red Fort. I am getting SMSs of all types,…
Why not to park where you are not supposed to park.
