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Everyone was smiling. And I mean everyone. The trainers, the audience and the dogs. This wasn’t a performance. This was happiness on loop. A...

Life's not easy and that is not changing anytime soon. Under-equipped, overwhelmed, ill-prepared - we lurch from one incident to anoth...

“Is anyone up?”, I query despite knowing full well the answer would be. There is WhatsApp silence and the doors of the other rooms ...

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Nain Singh Rawat as Doodled today At long last, the front page of a newspaper, for those of us who still read it in hard copy, carried...

It was a conversation that I could not believe I was having. Dileep and Ishwar, at most in their early 20s, had been until then ha...

"Where would you like to go?" Salvador Dali in camouflage pants & a faded white vest asks. "Anywhere you would go!...