Insight - Page 18

Simply watching a train trundle or rumble by has a strange power over me, one that morphs time and makes me smile. What seems like a complete eternity...

It used to be such fun as a little one, running around, playing as much cricket and football as I did ice-spice, skipping ropes and roaming life’s...

Over a year ago, Sushant Singh Rajput was maligned by news channels after his passing. But the real demise has been that of India’s media, which has...

The COVID-19 pandemic, which has had us worried about our today and tomorrow for well over a year, did something good too; it taught me things even at...

The last 15 months have been tough as nails, with the Coronavirus pandemic nipping away at our health (both mental and physical), finances and society...

I have two dogs and two cats. And much more than discerning humans, animals can smell fear. They can sense worry. I am okay with that, for I am...

The authorities are now announcing that they will provide foodgrain and rations to 81 crore needy Indians for the rest of the year. That’s nice, but...

Try as we might, we are struggling to find a reason for the bloat, but we are acquiescing and waiting for the next blood-stroke. The bludgeon of...

Don’t go by the wicked headline, which asks whether the life we are living is ‘worth it’. I am good, by the grace of God, and shall hopefully remain...

We are living in trying times. The jobs created over the last few months are now going away, and fast. Lifelong savings have been depleted to an...

185 days back, North India’s farmers stormed the Capital’s borders, astride their tractors and trolleys, demanding the quashing of three...

The Second World War, into which first the Allies and later the United States were inscrutably drawn, taught us a lesson… In a faceoff with a deadly...