By Nury Vittachi Used my wife’s lemon-herb-mint shampoo, and now my head smells like a slow-roasted leg of lamb and everyone in the office is complaining that they feel hungry. So I turn to mail…
By Quaid Najmi Mumbai, Dec 20 (IANS) Over 10,000 twinkling colourful fairy lights, cherubic angels and fairies, reindeer and snowmen, bells, streamers and festoons, tiny crosses, and a beaming paunchy Santa Claus waving from the…
By Kishori Sud Gurugram, Dec 19 (IANS) Head to the China Club here to savour authentic Chinese delicacies in a fine wine and dine set-up with simple and classy interiors. Dishes with duck, poultry and…
By Vishal Gulati Naivasha (Kenya), Dec 18 (IANS) The Naivasha wetlands, nestled amidst the volcanic mountains of Kenya’s Great Rift Valley, are dying a slow death. Concerned at the impending ecological crisis, United Nations Environment…
By Sirshendu Panth Kolkata, Dec 17 (IANS) Eight years back, Sathi Mondal was a normal, jovial teenager, enjoying life and dreaming of making it big in sports. That’s till a botched-up medical treatment derailed her…
By Saket Suman New Delhi, Dec 17 (IANS) A novel that takes its readers into the abyss of poverty and patriarchy, thereby narrating the sordid uses of power and the agony it unleashes; a dystopian…
(ATTN Editors: Beginning December 15, IANS will be running a series of Yearenders that look at the highs and lows in the areas of politics, business, economy, technology, lifestyle, literature and sports during the year…
By Nury Vittachi I hate it when I want to sneak out of work early, but invisibility pills have not yet been invented. Science moves soooo sloooowly. It’s nearly 2018! Sci-fi stories promised us that…
New Delhi, Dec 14 (IANS) Rishi Kapoor objected to the presence of journalists at the launch on Thursday evening of a book on his late father, the legendary Raj Kapoor, in spite of an invitation…
By Saket Suman Solitude and silence are what most writers seek to produce a full-length novel or non-fiction book. But what do writers do when all around them is chaos and noise? They sit back…
Dubai, Dec 12 (IANS) Preparations here are underway to host Dubais annual citywide shopping extravaganza, offering the shopping-lover in all of us a month-long fiesta of sales, exclusive shopping experiences and extraordinary events for the…
By Francis Kokutse Accra, Dec 11 (IANS) Not much is known about him, but it has now emerged that trade relations between Ghana and India were started by Bhai Boolchand, the first Indian to arrive…
By Sheikh Qayoom Laharwalpora (Jammu and Kashmir), Dec 10 (IANS) Bilal Ahmad Dar, 18, is ready to start his daily journey into the Wular Lake, said to be Asia’s largest fresh-water lake, early in the…
By Milinda Ghosh Roy Port Blair, Dec 9 (IANS) Enormous storehouses with wooden planks and logs piled up to the roof on one side and a massive single-room workshop with century-old machines on the other…
By Vivian Fernandes Karnataka is dressing them up as “siridanya” or rich grains that should be on every thinking eater’s plate. For Icrisat, the Hyderabad-based international crops research institute for semi-arid tropics, they are “smart…
By Nury Vittachi Sometimes I order weird stuff from Amazon and tick “same-day delivery” just to make Jeff Bezos swear. “@#$%! Someone wants the life-sized big foot statue! Get the extra-large drone!” We nobodies have…
By Somrita Ghosh New Delhi, Dec 6 (IANS) There’s no protest, no placards, no shouting of slogans — rather a riot of colours. A group of transgenders has come out on the streets to vent…
New Delhi, Dec 5 (IANS) In its preliminary investigation report, north Delhi’s Shalimar Bagh-located Max Super Specialty Hospital on Tuesday found the hospital guilty of not following the prescribed medical norms in dealing with a…
By Saurabh Katkurwar Ayodhya, Dec 3 (IANS) This is a town held sacred for its association with Hindu religious lore, which in latter days acquired the unflattering reputation of being a hotbed of Hindu-Muslim antagonism…
By Saket Suman There’s talk that the country has lost track and is headed in a direction not envisaged by those who fought for our independence from colonial rule. Those growing up today are faced…