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Something fishy about the kettle

It turns out that sometimes tea is not just tea

Britain's 'discovery' of India

Unlike the Germans, Britons began to face the hard truths about their colonial empire only recently

The Matrix, reloaded

An online challenge game called Blue Whale is leading children to their deaths

Artwork or just 'goods'?

Worried emails have lately been flying back & forth among and from artists in New Delhi and Mumbai

Busking tradition: One of the most civilised things in the world

I think tradition of busking is one of most civilised things in the world, says the author

Infosys spat: The founder's 'interference'

India's second-largest IT services firm has witnessed a blame-game between Murthy and Sikka

Vishal Sikka's exit and return of the 'Founder's Syndrome'

An organisation cannot be run in the belief that the founder will be around forever

Bad news and writer's fatigue

Plenty of horrendous news is reason enough for me not to write my piece. But I've written it, anyway

Sons and fathers

Raymond, one of the oldest business house in the country is fighting a family battle

Personality, the uber-construct in the modern 'liking' business

The uber-construct is also the attribution of human psycho-social traits to non-human things

Sipping overseas wines

The Thelema Mountain Vineyards Shiraz 2013 is priced at Rs 3,726 in Bengaluru

A question of consent

The men clearly thought it was okay to stalk the woman, that it was acceptable

The winning narrative of a war

Dunkirk's narrative is that plucky Englishmen regrouped and came back to defeat Hitler. Not true.

Virtual policies

Real Life actors such as RBI try to manage supply of money to keep inflation in check

Saving art from babudom

Public money spent on art in PSUs disappear and no one is accountable for the loss

GoT bored

While first 8 episodes of season six were glacial, the following couple of them just went berserk

What the right glass does to wine

Glass was first developed in ancient Egypt around 1500 BC, but remained rare and expensive

Art-ing in NYC

Culture consumption in New York is always exhaustive and never exhausting

Privates on parade

The fundamental right to privacy matters fundamentally

How withdrawal of LPG subsidy can raise India's healthcare costs

LPG subsidy was in many ways an investment into public health; now that will be withdrawn