Meet the dream catchers

E Sarathababu

Stolen mangoes taste the sweetest: Sharmeen

Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy

'Hope sells,' says Vikas Swarup

Vikas Swarup

What is spiritual intelligence?

Brahmakumari Shivani

Spiritual intelligence is the expression of innate spiritual qualities through your thoughts, actions and attitude, says Brahmakumari Shivani.

Mumbai's a lifetime obsession: Gyan Prakash

Gyan Prakash

An urban raconteur, Gyan Prakash, author of Mumbai Fables, is Professor of History at Princeton University and offers an insider's take on cosmopolitan Mumbai.

‘Ravana created the violin’s ancestor!’

Patrick Jered taking a music lesson on the ravanhattha

Fascinated by the ravanahattha, the earliest ancestor of the violin and a musical instrument credited by mythology to demon king Ravana, Amsterdam-based musician and a PhD in molecular genetics Patrick Jered travelled to India and Sri Lanka to write a book on the subject.

Shop from a fashion blogger’s closet

Blogger Imsurenla Longkumer of The Aili (As I Like It)

Want to bag the best bargains on designer wear and rare vintage finds? Rummage through the cupboards of India's young and popular fashion bloggers

Algorithm helps you pick right bra

Aarthi Ramamurthy

Chennai-born, San Francisco-based software engineer Aarthi Ramamurthy is the talk of the town for creating an algorithm that helps women find the right-sized bra online.

Brother or Beau?

Ayushmann Khurrana in the film Vicky Donor

“Sperm donation is a social cause, it doesn't save life, it gives life, it is a completely different zone altogether,” says VJ-turned actor, Ayushmann Khurrana who plays the protagonist in a new film, titled ‘Vicky Donor’. The film has put the spotlight once again on the contentious issue of anonymous sperm donation. Meanwhile, in the US, a mother discovered that her son, who she conceived with the help of donor sperm, has nearly 150 half-siblings. The news raised many ethical, moral and legal questions. Is it time, then, to debate the future of fertility treatments that use donor egg and sperm?

Looking good reaches new high, in the pits

The humble armpit is the new playground for fancy cosmetic procedures. And the onset of summer has only doubled the demand, experts tell Anuradha Varma.

Indian moms are awkward around fat kids

Gauri-Nainika outfit for Kidology

 After Internet users unleashed a venomous attack against a US-based fashion magazine staffer, who wrote about the diet she put her 7-year-old daughter on, Anuradha Varma finds out how comfortable Indian mothers are when handling overweight kids.

Judgment day for tweeple

Twitter, that great channel for free speech, is also a space that lawyers have begun to watch like hawks. With the London high court ordering Lalit Modi to cough up.

Corporate lessons from Indian politics

India's current political scene has more potential to throw up corporate lessons than a succeed-at-your workplace seminar does.

Are you single?

Going solo can be spiritually empowering as long as you take safety precautions to avoid getting into dangerously vulnerable situations.

The Paper Bag Princess

Princess Bubble and the Paper Bag Princess, modern fairytale characters, can teach us a thing or two about being single. The latter got hot and dirty while trying to rescue her prince, who turned up his nose and told her to dress like a princess - he soon got the boot.

Spirituality competes with Super Glue

Bhanumathi Narasimhan chooses spirituality over religion that she says, continues to divide people.

My school’s taking me to the UN

A bored stroll through a local science centre to stargaze has been replaced by a Power Point presentation after watching a spacecraft docked at NASA. Anuradha Varma reports on school field trips going snazzy.

Spiritual lesson from a convict

Deepak Chopra is constantly learning. His last lesson was from a prisoner's character in an American TV thriller.

‘Ashoka was no Shah Rukh Khan!’

Emperor Ashoka was a stubby man, who as a prince, visited a site in Odisha with his girlfriend. Writer Charles Allen discusses little-known nuggets about the king who made Buddhism world-famous, with Anuradha Varma.

The cats want a revolution

The second annual Indian comic convention held recently at New Delhi's Dilli Haat saw the birth of a hero, who borrows a bit from Garfield, Chairman Mao Tse-Tung and Kung Fu Panda.

 

Mumbai-based illustrator Abhijeet Kini's latest graphic novel, Chairman Meow and the Protectors of the Proletariat is a witty collaboration with writer Anant Singh.

Banned works at a computer near you

Ashwin Kumar

Twenty-four hours after Oscar-nominated director Ashvin Kumar uploaded his latest film, Inshallah, Kashmir: Living Terror, he struck 50,000 views.