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Mercedes-Benz C-Class versus BMW 3-Series: a driver's dilemma

What do you want most from a car - moveable luxury or a soul-satisfying driving experience?

The art of learning

Drawing and painting can be employed to develop students into critical thinkers, problem solvers and communicators

Uttar Pradesh's sugar industry faces its worst crisis

Sugar mills in UP owe thousands of crores to cane farmers. Banks are unwilling to lend to the sector. The authors dissect the festering agrarian-industrial-social problem

Bird-watch your way through Delhi's feather trail

The urban jungle still retains some precious wild spaces inhabited by not frequently seen birds and animals. The author spends a day exploring them

Is this the right time to buy a house?

To liquidate their huge inventories, builders have started offering huge discounts and freebies. This may indeed be the right time to buy a house, though not for investment

The little-known mutiny by British officers in Madras

Almost 50 years before the 1857 rebellion, British officers of the Madras Presidency mutinied against their superior officers and plunged southern India into turmoil for three months

Movie review: Violence versus violence in NH10

Is vengeance the only way to counter social evils like honour killings and caste violence? Yes, if the gory NH10 is to be believed

In Their Shoes is an honest tale of a city caught between two worlds

The year's first documentary, about the shoe industry in Agra, is an interesting insight into the state of indigenous manufacturing in the country

What we can learn from British television

From Top Gear and Planet Earth to BBC News and Sherlock, British television can offer lessons to India, the world's second largest TV market

The mason who inaugurated a footover bridge for AAP govt

The party, to buttress this image, has occasionally brought 'aam aadmi' to the fore at public events

Producer Manish Mundra is Indie cinema's unlikely hero

It takes 140 characters and a rock-solid script to convince petrochemicals businessman Manish Mundra to finance a film. Here's more about the producer of films like Ankhon Dekhi and Umrika

Bottled appetite

A meal in a jar is not only a culinary fad, but also a practical way of ensuring the right portion to eat

A national treasure

Nostalgia trips and lasting morals

The similarities between Naseeb Apna Apna and Dum Lagaa ke Haisha are really just skin-deep though

Chess (#1139)

This week featured multiple open tournaments and one team match. Evgeny Najer won the European Open in Jerusalem

Pay peanuts, get monkeys

We are willing to pay more at restaurants, to watch films at cinema halls, for all kinds of brands, but we balk at any increase in school fees

Of bandhs, bans and cancelled tours

The sunshine flyer

The absolute requirement for light-weight aircraft also involves new construction techniques

Mushairas, folk art and some Shakespeare to enliven your weekend

A few cultural recommendations await you this weekend

40 years ago...And now: Not just germs, Dettol fights rivals unabated

If earlier the germicide had to battle home remedies, now it is other brands