My home cadre, Himachal Pradesh, has been witnessing an extraordinary (and ongoing) kerfuffle in its corridors of power over ...

How often have you abandoned a purchase simply because the payment page felt complicated or untrustworthy? This happens more ...

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Anyone who sincerely takes a bird’s-eye view of the areas around Jorabat (Meghalaya, India) cannot help but feel a deep sense ...

As we mark October 13, 2025—the 117th anniversary of Otto Königsberger’s birth—it’s impossible not to feel a deep gratitude ...

Pierre Jeanneret, the Swiss-born French architect whose name is synonymous with the modernist transformation of Chandigarh, ...

Most of us seek wisdom by reading tomes by wise men and Shashi Tharoor, but once in a while, going through a book for some entertainment and fun, we come across something that makes us think and ...

When I lived in an independent house in a small city like Shimla in the 70s, festivals often passed quietly. Navratri, for example, slipped by almost unnoticed. My little “celebration” was going to ...

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We are, without question, passengers on a vessel steered by “forces” we cannot foresee. When the news came that Zubeen Garg had left this world, it felt as if the sky over Assam, nay the entire ...