Improving focus through mindfulness: a practical guide
While I am not promoting the adage — easier said than done — but even Hanuman had to be goaded into action by the bear-avatar named Jambhavan
Kerala's Cyanide Killer: How a Woman Nearly Got Away with Six Murders
Jolly’s arrest came as a shock for many as she had carefully cultivated the image of an ‘ideal woman and daughter-in-law’. She would take good care of her in-laws, maintain cordial relations with her neighbors and relatives, go to church, take her sons to Sunday schools, and gift cakes at Christmas
History of Nissin Noodles: How Momofuku Ando's Instant Noodles Took the World by Storm
Successful businesses manufacture products for the markets, but the extraordinary ones create markets for their products. For all intents and purposes, Momofuku Ando was neither successful nor remarkable till the first half of the 20th century. When he built a makeshift shed outside his house in 1957, he was 47,
C/o Kancharapalem: A collage of broken dreams made whole by a gripping tale
Life is a series of accidents stitched together by an observer’s memories. And what better example of this could be made available than maverick auteur Maha Venkatesh’s C/o Kancharapalem. The cinema cements the suggestion that we are a product of accidents, which we carelessly call experience. Understated
Namak Haram: An Impression
Rajesh Khanna knew the pulse of the people but forgot that it was auteurs like Mukherjee that created them. After Namak Haram, Khanna and Bachchan never acted together again
Late Review: Sarpatta Paramparai
Agreed it is no Raging Bull or the marvellous Daniel Day-Lewis’ The Boxer, yet there is a certain studied panache to the way Pa Ranjith goes about Sarpatta. Though it peddles in clichés, it is the best sports movie ever made in India
Great Escape Part 1: Carlos Ghosn Spirited Away From Tokyo
In 2017, Carlos Ghosn's success story was the envy of his peers, but by the end of 2018, he was in jail. And by 2019, he was out of it and how.
South Africa's Dream Run Dashed by an Absurd Rule in 1992 World Cup
When play resumed, under the Least Productive Over rule, two overs had been lost. As per the rule, the two overs that could be deducted from the South Africa's chase were that of Meyrick Pringle
Should India Host the Olympics? A Cautionary Tale (Part 2)
The mismanagement, corruption and bad press notwithstanding, the economic strain of the Games was as shocking as the consequences of botching up the event.
Should India Host the Olympics? A Cautionary Tale
At the onset, this discussion does not aim to demean the achievements India has made over the past few decades, but seeks to build a cautionary tale by highlighting that the side-effects of organising the extravaganza far outweigh any perceived gains.
Population Explosion and New Zealand's Experiment in Zealandia
Our universe is fast expanding, but our earth is not. By rough estimates, we add over 2,00,000 people to the world population every day, but the resources to support this spurt is limited. According to a UN estimate, by 2050, the world would add 2.5 billion more
Wood Wide Web: The Underground Internet of Trees
Do you remember those old box radios, which would every once in a while latch on to some obscure frequency and belt out random gibberish? Perchance, your stroll in the garden opened you to the frequency the trees were chatting on