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  • I have always wondered why people who become ‘friends’ during journeys hardly ever meet again. Most of us have experienced this phenomenon. We bump into strangers on a bus, train or plane and hit it off with them. We exchange...

  • AS I stepped onto the familiar grounds of my alma mater after 10 long years, a wave of nostalgia washed over me. It’s incredible how time flies. For years, I harboured the desire to return there. And when the opportunity...

  • ONE fine morning, I got up and looked out of the window to find that the letterbox outside our house was mysteriously missing. It had been there conspicuously for the past six-and-a-half decades, but it had left behind a hole...

  • NOT so long ago, London used to be the cheapest city for a visitor, compared to the major cities of western Europe. No longer. A simple cup of coffee in an ordinary café can set you back by £2, or...

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    IN Sitaram Yechury’s death, India has lost not only one of its best-known left-wing leaders but also one of the finest communist representatives in Parliament. Yechury and Prakash Karat, two general secretaries of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), were...

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    AS a North Indian, I grew up watching poignant images of Ganpati visarjan on television. Visuals of teary-eyed people immersing idols of Lord Ganesha would astonish and overwhelm me. Cut to 2024, I am in Pune, and that too during...

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    THE monsoon brings back a flood of cherished memories. While climate change has led to fewer rainy days at times, this year’s monsoon has seen the rain gods being very generous. A rainy day is a sensory experience, blending nostalgia...

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    IT was on a sunny morning that I took my younger son to a top school in Delhi to appear in the entrance test for Class I. The road in front of the impressive red-brick building, with its well-laid-out lawns...

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    DECADES ago, when sex determination through ultrasonography machines was alien to the people in rural areas, the predictions by a man seemingly possessing wizardly powers in our town never failed. Popularly known as Yotishthakur (venerated astrologer), he was a septuagenarian...

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    I cannot tell for sure when Sam uncle became a part of my family, because he had been there for as long as I can remember, an epitome of integrity, sincerity, discipline and patriotism — values that all parents would...

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    IT takes all sorts of sneezers to make the world. There are mild and loud sneezers, and there are bold and timid ones. Some sneeze after a wheeze, while a few sneeze simply to tease. I have come across various...

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    EVERY house in the neighbourhood had stickers on boundary walls. Then there were billboards of various sizes on electricity poles, electricity transformer enclosures and even trees. Wherever one looked, the smiling image of the candidate was staring at you. This...

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    OUR newly posted brigade commander took charge in July 1995. Thenceforth, it was a hectic schedule with briefings, introduction to various roles and familiarisation with the terrain. The responsibility to acquaint the brigade commander with the battalion’s area of operations...

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    Brig Jagbir Singh Grewal (retd) OUR newly posted brigade commander took charge in July 1995. Thenceforth, it was a hectic schedule with briefings, introduction to various roles and familiarisation with the terrain. The responsibility to acquaint the brigade commander with...

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    BEING in the civil services is akin to living as a nomad, with transfers arriving unannounced. With little time to pack, this resulted in papers, clothes, toys, crockery, et al being hastily thrown into cartons, with a vague promise to...

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    DESPITE its small geographical size, Haryana has made a great contribution to national life. While its feats in sports are well known, its contribution to the electoral field in the form of ‘Aaya Ram, Gaya Ram’ is not remembered by...

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    MY mother often reminisces that theirs was one of the first Punjabi weddings in Yorkshire, England, in the 1960s. She shows newspaper cuttings to bolster her claim. The headlines read: ‘The teacher weds the lady twice’. This was to acknowledge...

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    EVEN before the announcement of any election, many business houses and people in government jobs (seeking greener pastures) start ‘investing’ in the prospective winners. I remember an incident when I became a witness to what generally transpires during meetings between...

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    Sripriya Satish WHILE taking a stroll in a neighbourhood park, I saw a woman struggling to feed her baby, who was reluctant to accept even a few morsels. She tried to coax her child by pointing out the beauty of...

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