Did media abet suicide?

The suicide note left by Professor Alan Stanley mentions ‘depression’ and ‘misinformation campaign spread by media outlets’ as the reasons On October 20, Delhi Police recovered the decapitated body of Alan Stanley from the railway tracks near Sarai Rohilla Railway Station. Startlingly, his mother Lissy was found dead the same night, suffocated by a cloth […]

Capital contributions

Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee and his team’s footprints can be seen all over Delhi, for their contributions have brought educational and health reform in the national capital With a Nobel Prize in Economics in the kitty, MIT professor and economists Abhijit Banerjee and wife Esther Duflo have been the talk of the town. Their ‘randomised […]

Dress for a healthy Diwali

This festive season says goodbye to buying new clothes. Instead, recycle what you have; or make your own outfit with an old saree The festivity has officially begun and so has this pageant in our heads that we dress up for. This is the time of the year when most of north India goes all […]

Nook for books

The Kumaon litfest at Nainital proved to be a perfect setting to turn a childhood love for fiction into a more mature engagement with non-fiction If there were ever a perfect location to revive or arouse a passion for reading, it would be the hills. There might be some who count on the sound of […]

Cracker of a place

Great décor, a spread of regional cuisines and soothing music make this new restaurant in Gurugram’s Ardee Mall a treat to visit What’s music got to do with food? How much does a playlist matter in a restaurant? Well, a lot if the food is not good. In the case of Maachis — Houseful of […]

Officiating lovers

Two couples residing between Delhi and Paris swap partners to stay happy Life presents strange situations. And some responses are even stranger. People find a way to exist in their own peculiar ways. Personal life is different from the one professed in public. Probity could just be a projection. Modern love stories have imbibed technology […]

Lonely Valley

Srinagar is learning to live with the new political reality. Their biggest worry is the prospect of outsiders buying property in the Valley Kashmir is always a welcome change from Delhi. This time, exiting the airport felt like entering a war zone with the overwhelming presence of gun-toting security personnel. The first impression you get […]

Be patient, they’re told

One of Aam Aadmi Party’s flagship schemes – Mohalla Clinics – has proved so popular with the public that it is already groaning under the overload of patients “My daughter is suffering from high fever. We have been sitting here for the last two-and-a half hours, but I know my turn will come,” says Rubaiya, […]