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Old is Not Always Gold
22 May 2016 9:13 PM ISTThere is a quote from Publius Tacitus (Gaius Cornelius Tacitus), author of several texts, including “Annals”. As commonly cited in English, the quote...
Achche Din through transparent delivery?
22 May 2016 8:57 PM ISTThe real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations, said Adam Smith. But that was much before communication revolution removed all...
Fortress DU and its Universal Soldiers
6 May 2013 10:04 PM ISTIt all began with my grandfather. He was one of the early pioneers of thermodynamics. The torch then passed to his son, my father. He was a research...
Fabled uprising that wasn’t one
6 May 2013 10:39 PM ISTDelhi has this tendency of living two lives at once, as several incidents, including the mutiny of 1857 and peoples’ agitations of the later years...
History on carts and wheels
6 May 2013 6:27 PM ISTOur capital city has always risen to the changing aspirations of its people. From Electric Trams to the Delhi Metro, the Indian national capital's...
Trading in tezheeb and time
6 May 2013 6:22 PM ISTTo the uninitiated, the meandering lanes and bylanes of old Delhi, packed with people, rickshaws, autos, cars and shops, connecting the Red Fort, Jama...
Idylls of art, or pleasure marts?
6 May 2013 6:08 PM ISTYou walk into a bustling in-the-process-of-being-upgraded-to-a-posh-market area that exemplifies Delhi's urban villages, which are now hubs of...
When music is a way of life
6 May 2013 6:05 PM ISTIt was in 1985-86 that then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was trying to create a new grammar for governance. In Rajiv’s schemes, culture played an...
Delhi, world is your stage
6 May 2013 6:01 PM ISTIt has been decades that the monopoly of everything cultural was in the hands of those in Bengal and then perhaps Mumbai. With the Bollywood industry...
Easing gridlock in urban traffic
11 May 2017 9:02 PM ISTUrban transport in India's sprawling cities presents a chaotic scenario today. Mobility in the four metropolitan capitals is a nightmare, despite the...
Judging the Judiciary
27 May 2015 2:52 AM IST“Indian judiciary in not facing the heat of “dysfunctional judiciary,” contends Prashant Bhushan and vows for a public movement against dysfunctional...
A fine political alternative
27 May 2015 2:44 AM ISTThe past decade has seen the rise of alternative political formations – in both movements and parties across the globe - that are challenging the...
New World on the Old Routes
12 July 2025 11:33 PM ISTThe Great Clash over Creation
12 July 2025 11:31 PM ISTReviving a Remedy
12 July 2025 11:29 PM ISTA Community in Kaleidoscope
12 July 2025 11:25 PM ISTGloomy Enigma of Stardom
12 July 2025 11:22 PM IST
Mentally disabled girl raped in Karnal; 1 held
17 July 2025 1:53 AM ISTMonsoon Session: 8 Bills on agenda; Oppn to corner govt on SIR,...
17 July 2025 1:51 AM ISTCDS says today’s wars need tomorrow’s tech
17 July 2025 1:50 AM ISTPMDDKY gets Cabinet nod, Rs 24K crore a year
17 July 2025 1:49 AM ISTAkbar brutal, Babur ruthless: New Class 8 NCERT textbook
17 July 2025 1:48 AM IST