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Gunjan Veda's book seeks to break caste through sunlit stories from India

Author Gunjan Veda confronts her own prejudices in the hesitant but brave epilogue of her book The Museum of Broken Tea Cups: Postcards from India's Margins

Middle age conundrum: The wisdom and the agony of advancing years

That is what age is. The body doesn't know how to heal itself because you weren't supposed to be here in the first place

Medical equipment to help keep you safe and monitor your well-being at home

Here are some gadgets that can help with that and advice from experts on how to use them.

CHESS #1403

Playing a hundred blitz games a day is no big deal for the super-fit and hyper-enthusiastic players at the top.

Majestic inactivity

In this screen fantasy, as also in life, the strange new circumstances put human nature to the test

Pigeon spies and the flutter caused by these unusual undercover agents

A Pakistani villager, who lives 4 km from the border, claimed to be its owner and made an impassioned appeal to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to return the pigeon.

Script goes wrong: Caught in a social media storm, Kent looks for cover

Despite an apology and withdrawal of an ad that was seen as insensitive and prejudiced, outrage and threats of boycott persist

How Covid-19 will change playbook for brands with shift in consumer habits

With a fundamentally transformed consumer, brands need to go hyper-local and reimagine the purchase funnel among other changes: Facebook-BCG

Indian consumers top anxiety list, show maximum wariness about health, job

The state of the Indian consumer has been the subject of attention of a number of agencies in recent weeks

Compassion, health, safety: Brands play down festive pitch on Ramzan

Compassion, health and safety dominate advertising narratives as the celebratory moment loses its sparkle in the lockdown

How customer support agents are learning the ropes of work from home

Anantha Radhakrishnan, CEO and MD of Infosys BPM, sees in this disruption an opportunity to digitise the entire value chain

Statsguru: Value erosion in PSUs can limit govt's disinvestment target

All sectors will be opened up for private firms and PSUs will be privatised in non-strategic sectors

An award-winning journalist tracks humankind's migration out of Africa

Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Paul Salopek is on an intercontinental journey of 24,000 miles, tracing humankind's movement out of Africa right down to South America

How auto firms plan to woo customers, motivate sales staff post lockdown

As India eases some restrictions and many automobile dealerships restart operations after over a month of keeping their shutters down, what will be the primary target for brands?

Dear Office, your services are terminated

The demise of the office has been foretold yet again. But there's a lot of fight left in the old lady.

Muthappa Rai, don of an era whose story was linked with Bengaluru's rise

Rai, 68, died on 15 May, after he lost the battle with cancer.

'Port of refuge'

I found refuge in the poetry of Tomas Tranströmer, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2011

Devdutt Pattanaik's new book overlooks questionable aspects of Hinduism

A readable account of a devotee and mythologist's visit to 32 sites overlooks or romanticises several questionable aspects of Hinduism, writes Chintan Girish Modi

Notes from the front line on what it's like to deal with Covid-19

Our health care workers who risk their lives to save ours share their experience of dealing with Covid-19

Top chefs are sharing comfort food recipes to turn their fans into cooks

The country's top chefs, in response to requests from followers and to tackle their own work-from-home blues, have been sharing culinary hacks in increasingly casual and honest tones.