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6 Books That Make Conversation Feel Effortless (Picture Credit – Amazon) Cicero noticed the gap two thousand years ago. The orators had their rulebooks, he wrote in 44 BC, yet conversation had none, so he set about drafting a few rules himself. Little has changed…

FSSAI has taken another blow in the series and this time, under the microscope, there’s bhujia and namkeen. On Thursday, the food authority of India directed CG Foods India to stop the production of their ‘veg bhuja namkeen’ after there many violations of rules were…

Meet Nikita Porwal: India’s delegate for Miss World 2026 (Credit: Instagram/nikitaporwal_) Pageants, contrary to popular perception, have never been just about beautiful faces and fit bodies. Every pageant queen that has managed to make her mark has had a deeply personal journey on their respective…

Every year on Teachers’ Day, we talk about teachers who inspired us, pushed us to do better or simply showed up when we needed them. But there are only a few stories that capture the true meaning of a teacher’s duty like that of Janusz…

How to eat out safely during Durga Puja 2026? (Credit: Unsplash) It truly is a scary time to be a foodie. If you thought the overwhelming headlines about food safety concerns was something only restricted to packaged food items, think again. Over the past 3…

Sonia Gandhi Named Her Memoir ‘Belonging’ For A Reason Worth Noticing A memoir can run to hundreds of pages, yet its author must first distil a whole life into a single word on the cover. Sonia Gandhi had a hard one to choose. Her book…

Bond with English teachers (Credits: Pinterest) English teachers, there’s something about them. Maybe it has to do with the language they teach, and the way, in most schools in India, there is a compulsion around speaking it. One can mess up with matras in Hindi,…

Jallianwala Bagh 1919 book review (Photograph: Zeutschel Omniscan 11/Nehru Memorial Museum) The Jallianwala Bagh massacre of 1919 remains one of the bloodiest and most haunting chapters of India’s freedom struggle. Today more than a century later, the horror of that day still feels difficult to…

For as expansive as the term ‘feminist icon’ may appear to be, on Gloria Steinem, it feels reductive. She passed on September 2 at her home in New York, marking the end of her life at 92. But potentially the most significant thing about her…

The Four Things That Make A Bookshop Truly Great In India (Picture Credit – Reddit/Instagram) Shortly after dawn on Kolkata’s College Street, a fourth-generation bookseller named Arabinda Das Gupta swings a brass censer through the aisles of a shop his family has kept for over…