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A growing community of breast milk donors in Uganda gives mothers hope

Early last year, Caroline Ikendi was in distress after undergoing an emergency Caesarean section to ...

world | 4 months ago

Quiz: Easy like Sunday morning

1. On this day in 1884, a new attraction called the “Switchback Railway” was opened in New York’s Co...

entertainment | 4 months ago

India’s cubing enthusiasts are slowly making their mark and nursing hopes of government support

Last month, on the 50th anniversary of the Rubik’s Cube, Mitsubishi Electric’s TOKUFASTbot set a new...

entertainment | 4 months ago

50 years of the Rubik’s Cube

On a September afternoon in 1980, I boarded the Coromandel Express at Howrah station. The train arri...

entertainment | 4 months ago

Stand-up comedian Alexander Babu brings ‘Alexperience’ to Coimbatore

In a parallel world, Alexander Babu is a singer like SPB; a tabla player like Zakir Hussain; a comed...

entertainment | 3 months ago

Back in the millennial’s mind | Review of ‘Intermezzo’ by Sally Rooney

Celebrity Irish writer Sally Rooney’s earlier works captured the complexities and angst that define ...

entertainment | 3 weeks ago

Death of a scholar | Kannada play ‘Rakta Vilapa’ is based on the 2015 assassination of researcher M.M. Kalburgi

On August 30, 2015, a young man shot 76-year-old Kannada scholar M.M. Kalburgi point-blank on the do...

entertainment | 2 weeks ago

Death of a scholar | Kannada play ‘Rakta Vilapa’ is based on the 2015 assassination of researcher M.M. Kalburgi

On August 30, 2015, a young man shot 76-year-old Kannada scholar M.M. Kalburgi point-blank on the do...

entertainment | 2 weeks ago

Tribute | Writer and festival director Namita Gokhale on the literary legacy of Keki N. Daruwalla, her friend of 40 years

W.H. Auden’s poem ‘In Memory of W.B. Yeats’ begins thus: Time that is intolerant Of the brave and th...

entertainment | 2 weeks ago