Pied Piper of CP

Alim Khan sits every day in A Block of Delhi’s iconic Connaught Place playing his heart out on his flute, hiding his sorrows behind those tunes and dreaming of making it big in Bollywood Connaught Place, the capital’s favourite hangout spot, will greet you with its maze of white buildings, the buzz of the crowd […]

Woeful flows the Yamuna

For long, we have known that the Yamuna during its flow through Delhi is highly polluted. What comes as a surprise is that electronic waste is now at least partially responsible Delhi has found new ways of contaminating the Yamuna river: electronic waste. As also the subsoil and ground water: A United Nations-backed study pointed […]

From Peru with flavour

The country has been declared the world’s best food destination six years in a row. No better reason was needed for the embassy to release four cookbooks of the cuisine “Cooking is like painting or writing a song; just as there are many colours or notes, there are many flavours; it’s how you combine them […]

Bacteria can be good

Exposure to pets and rural environments during childhood helps Children raised in a rural environment, surrounded by animals and bacteria, grow up to have more stress-resilient immune systems and may be at lower risk of mental illness than pet-free city dwellers, according to a study. The study published in the journal Proceedings of the National […]

Supermoms need superfoods

Mother’s Day is usually a day for kids to appreciate the maternal care they receive. But it is also a time for mothers to think about their own nutrition needs to help them multi-task This weekend, as we celebrate Mother’s Day, let us worry a little about the health of moms, especially when their kids […]

The battle of VIP sons

In Varuna, Siddaramaiah’s son Yathindra is gearing up to take on Abhishek, JD(S) candidate and son-in-law of Congress’ K Shadakshari. Yeddyurappa’s son was not allowed to contest at the last minute. Thus, the upcoming Karnataka elections are all set to see some ‘son’-rise, as well as some ‘son’-sets Darshan Puttannaiah would have been sitting on […]

Talent Hunt by Anita’s Attic

Anita’s Attic, a creative writing and mentorship programme run by author Anita Nair since 2015 in Bengaluru, has tied up with Penguin Random House with an aim to nurture and empower new literary talent. “As we prepare to commence the next session of Anita’s Attic on June 30, we are very pleased to announce a […]

First information whisper

An extract from the book on Ram Rahim Singh ‘Insan’ by investigative journalist Anurag Tripathi, about the informer who first gave the tip-off 10 years ago that all was not well at Dera Sacha Sauda The next two days were business as usual. We camped next to the phone, fervently hoping for a call from […]