Where Memory Leads
The miracle of Pulitzer Prize-winning author and Holocaust scholar Saul Friedlander, now 84, is that after losing his beloved parents to the Auschwitz death camps while he was hidden in a convent on the outskirts ......
Dialogue with Youngsters
It is nice of you to have me here. I have been asked to make an announcement by the management: If anyone .....
Blood Red River
Rohit Prasad is a professor at the Management Development Institute (MDI), Gurgaon, and his last book was called Start-up Sutra, a work of nonfiction focused on the subject of entrepreneurship......
The Lobbyists
Common man’s interest as far as the oil, gas and energy sector is concerned, is limited to its availability, accessibility and affordability to fuel the kitchen, vehicles and pump sets.....
I am Duran
If you are a boxer and don’t compete in the Heavyweight or Super Heavyweight categories, life is going to be a tad difficult. It will be more so if you want fame more than money.....
Some Reporters spend their working lives as Stenographers for the powerful
Were you immediately made aware of the power that the Times gave you, as well as its limitations? Yes. I didn’t abide by the pool system.....
Grassroots Innovation
India may be one of the fastest growing economies of the world, yet everyday, India’s teeming millions are toiling hard on land, struggling for a glass of potable drinking water and failing......
Almighty
Some of the most misguided questions ever conceived by the human brain take the form of "But how do you use nonviolence against ......
Easternisation
A year and a half ago, when Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Europe, no one would have expected any surprise. It was a banal, bilateral visit and most of the media was treating.....
The Return
When Hisha Matar was 12 years old, a hair-raising incident revealed to him just how marked a man his father Jaballa, a Libyan exile agitating against Moammar Gadhafi’s regime, had become. Matar......
Homo Deus
When Pokémon Go burst into the scene a few months ago, it also spawned quite a few memes on the social media. One of the most striking of them was a meme that carried the photo of a major Motorway leading to Chicago, US, with an ....
Mind Control, Online
When Pokémon Go burst into the scene a few months ago, it also spawned quite a few memes on the social media. One of the most striking of them ......
Who moved my interest rate?
The global financial crisis did not take a heavy toll on India. Yet, ordinary Indians had to combat high inflation and higher interest rates. India’s growth story suffered too.....
Democratic Musings
On being asked whether he was apolitical after being elected as vice president of the Indian Union, Mohammed Hamid Ansari’s answer was both surprising as well as instructive....
Mohammed Rafi
For a nation so obsessed with playback singing and its starts, India surprisingly has pretty abysmal record when it comes to penning books.....
Issue Dated: Feb 5, 2017
