Insight - Page 18
Fun belied, frolic denied
31 July 2021 11:09 PM ISTIt 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...
Web of lies
24 July 2021 8:44 PM ISTOver 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...
Creepy-crawlies
17 July 2021 10:50 PM ISTThe 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...
A lot is not well
10 July 2021 10:12 PM ISTThe last 15 months have been tough as nails, with the Coronavirus pandemic nipping away at our health (both mental and physical), finances and society...
Smelling fear
3 July 2021 9:23 PM ISTI 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...
Wheat on a Cycle
26 Jun 2021 8:59 PM ISTThe 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...
Pumping up the ante
19 Jun 2021 10:04 PM ISTTry 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...
Yeh jeena bhi koi jeena hai?
12 Jun 2021 8:33 PM ISTDon’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...
A Country Belied
5 Jun 2021 9:27 PM ISTWe 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...
Let's end the impasse
29 May 2021 6:15 PM IST185 days back, North India’s farmers stormed the Capital’s borders, astride their tractors and trolleys, demanding the quashing of three...
Is this not a war too?
22 May 2021 10:22 PM ISTThe 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...
What are we up to now?
8 May 2021 11:08 PM ISTApparently, not up to a whole lot of good. Today, as a vast majority of Indians find themselves stuck inside their homes yet again, what with curfews...
In Defiance of Its Own Gospel
2 Aug 2025 11:43 PM ISTA Future Pivoted on Ballot
2 Aug 2025 11:40 PM ISTRISC-V and China’s Full Throttle
2 Aug 2025 11:37 PM ISTTied to the Toxic?
2 Aug 2025 11:36 PM ISTRivers of Rupture & Reunion
2 Aug 2025 11:33 PM IST
India’s economy near Top 3, says PM; Underlines economic priorities...
3 Aug 2025 12:40 AM ISTGirl set on fire by miscreants in Puri, dies in AIIMS Delhi: Odisha CM
3 Aug 2025 12:36 AM IST‘Bengal singled out in MGNREGS’ fund freeze, Rs 3,038 crore pending:...
3 Aug 2025 12:35 AM ISTEx-CJI vacates official home, Shifts to 14-Tughlaq Road bungalow
3 Aug 2025 12:30 AM IST‘Amader Para Amader Samadhan’: About 1.75L people visit 632 camps
3 Aug 2025 12:26 AM IST