Vijay C Roy IN 1996, when South Korean giant Hyundai Motor Company, which was barely recognised in India then, set up Hyundai Motor India with a manufacturing plant near Chennai, it was difficult to imagine that the automaker would one...
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Vijay C Roy Mohali-based Hetu Sharma (40) prefers her Harley Davidson Street 750 over a car any day. She is meticulous with dates and numbers — “I bought this 750cc beauty in December 2017, it cost me around Rs 6.3...
R Umamaheshwari Hostel nights in our times in JNU, Delhi, were incomplete without the quintessential radio. And Akashvani was incomplete without at least one number by this singer. There was something about the lilt in Talat Mahmood’s voice: it wafted...
Neelam Mansingh Chowdhry When a griot (storyteller) dies, a library burns down — African proverb No, this is not an obituary, nor will I refer to Surjit Patar in the past tense. I find it difficult to wrap my head...
Pushpesh Pant IN ancient Sanskrit works, karela is referred to as karuvellika. The vegetable — classified as a fruit by botanists — belongs to the cucumber-squash family. We are told it was ‘born’ in the African continent many millennia before...
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Nonika Singh Each time naysayers lament how dull the entertainment business has become, there comes a sleeper hit which proves all the trade pundits wrong. If not too long ago it was Vikrant Massey’s ‘12th Fail’, which charmed critics and...
Abhimanyu Pandey Spiti valley in Himachal Pradesh has for long been known for its sublime Trans-Himalayan landscapes, Tibetan Buddhist cultural heritage and rare high-altitude wildlife. In the realm of architecture, Spiti is globally renowned for its several ancient Buddhist monasteries...
Madhulika Liddle When I was a pre-teen, I lived with my family in Srinagar. Twice or thrice a year, we would drive down from the Kashmir valley to Delhi, or Chandigarh, or other places south. One of the most vivid...
Aditi Tandon Priyanka Gandhi Vadra’s mention in Congress circles evokes this dominant, almost uniform, reaction: “She is a very strong leader, her own person.” To the party rank and file, even a shred of suggestion that the 52-year-old was reluctant...
Sangeeta Kumari & Ratti Ram Sharma ONE unit (350-450 ml) of donated blood can save up to three lives. Chandigarh-based Alka Chaudhary (40) has been one such grateful recipient all her life. Diagnosed with thalassaemia major when she was just...
Seema Sharma SARA (26) was 13 when she was diagnosed with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). Initially, her doctor attributed excessive acne on her face and back, thick facial hair, weight gain and hair fall to hormonal adjustments during teenage years....
BVC Mahajan THE Green Revolution made India a foodgrain-surplus nation. However, issues such as depletion of groundwater, deterioration in soil fertility and overuse of pesticide and fertilisers cropped up, which led stakeholders to push for diversification of agriculture through other...
Aditi Tandon Naveen Patnaik’s rare public appearance at the oath-taking ceremony of Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi of the BJP hit the headlines last week, garnering as much, if not more, attention as the change of guard in...
Krishnaraj Iyengar Abhay Rustum Sopori has vivid memories of accompanying his father, Pt Bhajan Sopori, to pray at a Shankaracharya temple atop a hill and then at a Sufi dargah at its foothill during his childhood days in Srinagar....
Shireen Quadri India doesn’t have an official pavilion at the ongoing Venice Biennale this year, but art from the country is making a splash across various sections. Of these, sculptor Sonal Ambani’s installation, ‘Slings & Arrows of Outrageous Fortune’,...
Nonika Singh Where Punjabis go, Punjab follows. Only, in the case of eminent playwright and theatreperson Atamjit, make it Punjabi rangmanch. Thus, when in 2022, this prolific writer, with 36 plays to his credit, made Chicago his second home,...
Rahul Verma There are different ways of holding hands with the people of Palestine. A few evenings ago, two friends hosted a dinner celebrating Palestinian dishes, and each dish was a standing ovation to the spirit of the people. The...
Lovneet Bhatt Imagine a quaint little mazaar in the middle of wind-swayed crop ears as far as the eye can see. It is covered with a traditional cool green plastered onto the walls of a disproportionate little fortress-like structure,...
Renu Sud Sinha He was all of 16 when well-known choreographer Sandip Soparrkar decided to have a child who was not his ‘apna khoon’. “My aunt had adopted a little girl and I was smitten. I asked my mom...
Bindu Menon Walking can mean many things to many people. In my locality, there are walkers of all types. There are the regular friendly neighbours who undergo a personality switch the moment they put on their walking shoes. This breed...
An effective way to safeguard your vehicle is by opting for specific insurance covers for monsoon-related issues. You can opt for add-on covers while buying your motor insurance policy or if you have already bought or renewed it, purchase these...
Vijay C Roy If you are a relatively new investor and entered the market probably in March or April this year, you might have come across the term ‘India VIX’ almost every other day, especially since the first phase of...
Vijay C Roy Indians place a significant premium on home ownership, but home insurance penetration is remarkably low at about 1 per cent. This means that only a small fraction of Indian homeowners insure their homes against unforeseen events. A...
Surinder S Kukal and KB Singh DIVERSIFYING area under paddy to other crops has been and is being advocated in the northwestern region of the country. Various schemes for crop diversification have not seen the light of day due to...
Shailaja Khanna One of India’s oldest extant string instruments, the rudra veena (been, as it is colloquially called) has been in a state of decline for the last 100 years. Today, very few practitioners remain. When the last great beenkaar...
Siddharth Pandey Whenever the epithet ‘Dev Bhoomi’ is used with reference to the religious landscape of Himachal Pradesh, it is usually a select list of temples that readily comes to mind. The official website of the Himachal Pradesh government, for...
Naseer Ahmad Sopore in north Kashmir is known as the ‘apple town’. Having faced turmoil in the 1990s, today, it is a peaceful place where democracy flourishes, going by the high voter turnout in the recent elections. At the far...
Pushpesh Pant It’s not surprising that in India, where summer is like a furnace, poets smitten by love have found solace in sherbet. Many shayars have penned verses using sherbet metaphorically to describe the beauty of the beloved. The word...
Ajay Banerjee Ten years ago, when Narendra Modi took oath as Prime Minister on the forecourt of Rashtrapati Bhawan on May 26, 2014, succeeding Manmohan Singh, in attendance was Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, along with six other South Asian...
Neelam Mansingh Chowdhry Post-Independence, there was a fervent search for form and content that would define and also echo the spirit of nationalism. Many artists looked back at tradition for inspiration. Some sought stencils through which new identities could be...
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