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Swansong of the iPod
From LP records to tape recorders and CDs, it’s been a bumpy ride for music lovers. And iPods changed all that. Just like that. One fine day.
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Because I’m happy...
Harvard's longest-running Study of Adult Development found that happiness lies in relationships, relationships, relationships.
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Bits of paper, bits of paper…
Littering is our birthright. So, it is no surprise that landfills have been going up in flames!
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Ready or not, here we come!
No one can pretend the pandemic has been a picnic. There is trauma stored in our DNA now. This loud bonhomie is meant to overwrite the recent stress, the losses, the brush with mortality.
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Tsk, tsk, Mr Musk
Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal did warn us: ‘There will be distractions ahead.’
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Living and grieving: How we cope with loss
Is there a new way to grieve that may not lessen the pain but will permanently honour relationships? A safe place to treasure memories, to cradle tragedies tenderly.
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Macho or mushy: How do you like your Bruce?
We will miss all the Bruces he’s been. From a Bruce we met on a 'Blind Date' in 1987, to a Bruce whose line from 'The Last Boy Scout' works even today, especially today.
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Betting at the Oscars: Who will win what?
There is no Indian film in the foreign film category, so that frees us up to root for any film actually.
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The Holi in our stars
Your zodiac sign colours your festival mood.
WORLD
Our youngsters in Ukraine
Ill-prepared and incoherent, the students, mostly in their late teens or early 20s, just want to wake up from their worst nightmare.
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Women's Day 2022: Money, Money, Money…
Women are now saving and spending, insuring and investing. It is no longer fashionable to shrug off financial knowhow, and leave it coyly to the boys.
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Call me by my name, says McAdams
The meme world exploded. Social media had nothing else to say whole day. All brains fused into one on this nationally televised boo-boo.
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22.02.2022: Happy Palindrome Day, everyone!
Palindrome days like the one that just went by – 22.02.2022 – can bring us luck, yes, but mainly many WhatsApp forwards.
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Case of the vanishing book
The sudden closure of a top publishing house is making moody would-be writers moodier. If at first they grumbled about writer’s block, now it is the shrinking of avenues.
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Babu in a spot, between the devil and the deep blue sky
When Babu got trapped on a mountainside in Palakkad, Kerala, no Malayalam TV channel could take their eyes off him.
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Diary of an Omicron patient
Your doorstep soon resembles a shrine. Things start collecting there: thermometer, pulse oximeter, crocin, vitamin C, zinc tablets, cough syrups and all the food you are ordering in anyway.
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Minnie Mouse is in a pantsuit, when is Mickey getting a skirt?
Why must adjustments always begin with the woman?
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Blossoms, Bengaluru: A bookshop still in bloom
Bengaluru's Blossom Book House is the Narnia off a main artery road; you duck into this shop and are instantly transported into another world.
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Will Dileep single-handedly end Kerala’s patriarchy?
The whole case has blazed across the state like a long-running soap. Everything about it is shocking. An actress molested, an actor accused of master-minding the attack…
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The Omicron effect: Love back in quarantine
The predestined prescient qualities ascribed to how we run into The One just like that one day out of the blue are now the stuff of fairy tales.
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Adultery had a crap year too
With falling in love complicating itself in the new masked, sanitised, socially distanced, work-from-home era, it is the future of extramarital affairs really that hangs by a thread.
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Joan Didion and her exit lines
Joan Didion is, dramatically enough, no more. Her abrupt departure only marking the end of a year that went by in a blur like the previous year, where living is a simultaneous chronicling of loss.
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Is it 'Merry' Christmas or 'Happy' Christmas?
The best part about all the feasting are the leftovers. Till the middle of next month, you have sandwich fillings, icing to bite into, and that suspicious yellow thing at the back of the fridge.
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Sexless and the city: Ageism and other real problems
As Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davis return for a reboot of 'Sex in the City', there is much talk about facial work and ageing and not enough about the big 'O'.
