With the mesmerising beauty of its mountain ranges, impressive fishing boats, temples and alpine lake, Taiwan offers myriad memorable experiences to visitors Wish we’d kept our date with the cherry blossoms, I can’t help but think as our aircraft cruises down Taipei’s Taoyuan airport. Although we’d missed having an up, close and personal encounter with […]

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Parental pressure to secure good marks and thereby ensure a ‘good’ life takes a heavy toll on teenagers who may have extra-curricular passions. How to strike a balance? When asked about their successes, interests and hobbies, an incessant barrage of words is likely to pour out of these teenagers. Like Oscar winners, they reel off […]

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Not many Delhiites would like the comparison with Karachi but both cities are on the verge of acute water shortage, as a study by journalism students of the crisis on both sides of the border shows A usual day in the urban slums of India and Pakistan starts with uncertainty among residents, as they wait […]

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When the news of a suicide bombing in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama flashed on my mobile screen on February 14, I somehow knew what was impending. Not that it needed any special analysis, but my three years of experience in Delhi has instilled in me that understanding. Right after the attack that killed at least […]

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Satish Kaushik is using his success in Bollywood to boost the prospects of the regional film industry in his home state Veteran actor-director-producer Satish Kaushik was born in the Nai Walan locality in Delhi’s Karol Bagh. He only had one dream as a child: He wanted to become famous. “I would sit on a charpoy […]

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This slim book of poems holds up a mirror to the journey called life, running the gamut from despair to hope, cages to freedom, beginnings to endings Sarah B’s poetry in the anthology titled Kasturi is meditative, philosophical, giving direction to lives caught up in the city’s whirlwinds. For instance, she writes in The Journey […]

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This book by a retired officer of the Andhra cadre is a timely reminder that vikas is an ongoing process that requires the cooperation of both legislature and executive Contrary to the image of IAS officers being arrogant procrastinators, 1982 batch K Pradeep Chandra’s memoir Tiger Hunting Stories reveals what a proactive officer can achieve […]

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With Virat Kohli emphasising on the need to handle pressure situations in the upcoming World Cup, we take a look at how India has performed in such situations in the past At a press conference ahead of the departure for the World Cup in England, India captain Virat Kohli said that performing under pressure holds […]

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