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Namaste blessing

May 6, 2026, 8:42 AM IST

Long before the Covid pandemic made physical contact with others in the form of the Western handshake a no-no for fear of infection, the namaste, the salutation of bidding ‘Welcome’ and ‘Farewell’, had a truly…

May 6, 2026, 8:42 AM IST

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Portrait of a lady

April 24, 2026, 8:43 AM IST

A grand dame of Kolkata’s Park Street prepares to celebrate her 100th birthday Even as she prepares to turn 100 next year, a grand lady of Park Street in Kolkata remains as vibrant and vivacious…

April 24, 2026, 8:43 AM IST

Juggle-Bandhi , Edit Page, India , TOI

What’s your vert?

April 22, 2026, 8:10 AM IST

Automobile tycoon Henry Ford once famously said that you could have his popular car in any colour you wanted – provided it was black. Modern psychology is more liberal in granting us a choice of…

April 22, 2026, 8:10 AM IST

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EOL industry

April 17, 2026, 8:54 AM IST

Inbuilt obsolescence makes us buy newer & newer things The other week, my cell phone began to act up, refusing to download an app I needed, and generally being moody and cantankerous. I took it…

April 17, 2026, 8:54 AM IST

Juggle-Bandhi , Edit Page, Lifestyle , TOI

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Strait shooting

April 15, 2026, 7:55 AM IST

Trump unleashes a verbal flank attack on Iran’s control of a crucial waterway The two-member Supreme Council of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard holding an emergency meeting, about a verbal assault made by US prez, which involves…

April 15, 2026, 7:55 AM IST

Juggle-Bandhi , Edit Page, World , TOI

Paperless loo

April 1, 2026, 5:00 AM IST

To help save the planet, more people are switching from wipe to wash TP or not TP; that is the question. Had Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, been around today, that’s the way he might have…

April 1, 2026, 5:00 AM IST

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Big bad bullies

March 30, 2026, 8:40 AM IST

On a malign force that has the world worrying Early warning signals are flashing. A big bad bully is rolling up its sleeves, and is all set to go into action, making people in many…

March 30, 2026, 8:40 AM IST

Juggle-Bandhi , Edit Page, India , TOI

Timed out

March 27, 2026, 5:00 AM IST

That’s what happened to me when my watch stopped working, and was sent off to be fixed A few weeks ago, I ran out of time, literally. My watch suddenly stopped working, and had to…

March 27, 2026, 5:00 AM IST

Juggle-Bandhi , India , TOI

Labour pains

March 23, 2026, 5:00 AM IST

Thanks to AI, we may have too much leisure  Workers of the world, relax, you have nothing to lose but your chores. The AI apocalypse looming over the world gives the Marxist rallying call a…

March 23, 2026, 5:00 AM IST

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War and peas

March 18, 2026, 7:22 AM IST

Much to its indignant distaste, India is willy-nilly getting a taste, literally, of the conflict raging in Iran and neighbouring countries.  Iran’s blocking of Strait of Hormuz, which overnight has become an international buzzword, and…

March 18, 2026, 7:22 AM IST

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We’ve been warned

March 13, 2026, 5:00 AM IST

Watching a movie could soon be very frightening I’m watching a TV series in which one of the main characters, a hard-bitten Texas oilman, is a chain-smoker, barely stubbing out one cigarette before lighting another….

March 13, 2026, 5:00 AM IST

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Thook de, India!

March 11, 2026, 5:00 AM IST

On lending a splash of post-colonial colour to London London was in a pother, and the legendary British stiff upper lip was noticeably aquiver. The causes of this disquiet were great blood-red splatters appearing everywhere,…

March 11, 2026, 5:00 AM IST

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Bare to dare

March 6, 2026, 5:00 AM IST

From Delhi’s AI Summit to Maoris, protesters have put skin in the game In a demonstration that raised both eyebrows and hackles, some members of Youth Congress gate-crashed the recent AI Summit in Delhi, and…

March 6, 2026, 5:00 AM IST

Juggle-Bandhi , India , TOI

Jaw-jaw and war-war

March 4, 2026, 5:00 AM IST

US and Israel jointly attack Iran, but one of them is confused  Donald Trump in a phone conversation with Benjamin ‘Bibi’ Netanyahu. Trump: Hi Nate, how’re they hangin’ now that we’ve slammed Iraq and whacked…

March 4, 2026, 5:00 AM IST

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Jeffrey and me

February 27, 2026, 5:00 AM IST

As more Big Names are linked to Epstein, the needle of suspicion moves closer home Shortly after Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly known as Prince Randy Andy Andrew, was arrested by the police for his close association…

February 27, 2026, 5:00 AM IST

Juggle-Bandhi , India , TOI

Tree People

February 25, 2026, 5:00 AM IST

Depending on where we live, we are either coniferous or deciduous, except in reverse As winter yields to warm spring, which will become the furnace of summer, I look at the trees that front my…

February 25, 2026, 5:00 AM IST

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Apple a day

February 20, 2026, 8:40 AM IST

Though not quite the ‘Mother of deals’ as the Indo-EU trade pact was gushingly described, the Indo-US handshake on trade might, continuing the family analogy, be called the Auntyji of deals, or bearing Uncle Sam…

February 20, 2026, 8:40 AM IST

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All us ostriches

February 18, 2026, 5:00 AM IST

World’s largest bird and we have something in common Does the ostrich, the large flightless bird native to Africa, have a behaviour pattern in common with us?  Popular lore has it that the ostrich, the…

February 18, 2026, 5:00 AM IST

Juggle-Bandhi , India , TOI

A is for appum

February 13, 2026, 7:22 AM IST

When I’m in Goa, as I was recently, I’m faced with a Hamletesque dilemma: To poee, or not to poee; that is the question. The poee is a traditional Goan bread of wheat flour and…

February 13, 2026, 7:22 AM IST

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Clockwork orange

February 11, 2026, 5:00 AM IST

The recent Budget has added a new colour to India’s already colourful economy This year’s Annual Financial Statement – known to its chums as the Budget, with a capital B to show how important it…

February 11, 2026, 5:00 AM IST

Juggle-Bandhi , India , TOI