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Sleep sounds simple. Everyone can sleep. From babies to dogs to computers. But it is not so simple. I recently read a book by Matthew...

I have just finished one of the most amazing books that I have read. This blog post does not attempt to summarise this book, but offers...

In the week that the women’s reservation bill was passed in parliament, I read a book called “Heroines” by Ira Mukhoty (published in...

I had just finished my post graduation degree when the then Prime Minister, Mr VP Singh, implemented the Mandal Commission report. Like...

A few months ago, I heard an economist argue that we need to change the way we think of debt. I didn’t think much of it right then, but...

Capitalism has let us down. In the second decade of the twenty first century, the world realised that capitalism was destroying the...

Around two decades ago, I read a book called The Cosmic Serpent. It is a fascinating book written by an anthropologist, Jeremy Narby,...

Remember the play, Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare? People of my generation who studied in ICSE schools, will have swotted over it...

Where did I come from? From Mummy’s tummy. Where did Mummy come from? And her Mummy? Where did the first human come from? The first...

Bandra has grown from a little fishing village in the 1530s to a suburb with one million people today. More importantly, it is the third...

Drug addiction is a major problem in the slums of Mumbai. Children start at a young age and suffer huge consequences because of it. An...