“Porkaholism” is a thing, I am told. There are pork lovers. And some are pork crazy. They will leave everything if they see pork on the table. Pork is the most widely eaten meat in the world. “Porkaholics” are found across geographies, regions and culture. …

In the last few years there has been a tsunami of books on how to regain focus in a digitally atomised world. OOLD or Obsessive Online Disorder became a new age malady even before the advent of social media. Then arrived SMS and MMS making us hooked onto our mobile…

Jobs don’t come with ‘lifetime guarantee’ any longer The world of work is changing. #jobs won’t come with lifetime guarantee. Not even “sarkari naukri”. #education must focus on #employability not #employment. Develop #skills, #entrepreneurship. Not just degrees. Don’t fall for fake promises of politicians. In recent weeks there has been…

Over the past two weeks there has been a lot of brandishing of swords but also a war of words. The swords were on display during Ram Navami and Hanuman Jayanti processions that led to communal clashes at many places in the country. The verbal exchanges followed with political parties…

The past one year has been, arguably, the most difficult year for Narendra Modi since he took over as Prime Minister in 2014. Critics never cut him any slack. But they had ratcheted up the attacks several notches in the last twelve months. While Covid 2.0 pandemic raged, BJP suffered…

So, are you one of us who looked forward to the New Year starting on a better note only to find little has changed if they haven’t actually become worse? All resolutions made appear quite meaningless — at least for now. I suspect this is the situation with many. For…

When Narendra Modi watchers woke up on the morning of Guru Nanak Jayanti, they were expecting to see images of the Prime Minister visiting some Gurdwara. In other years, he has been to the Rakabganj Gurdwara in Delhi. With Punjab elections in a few months people did not rule out…

A couple of years back a friend committed suicide. He was from my school in Kolkata. I did not know him then as he was a few of batches senior. We came from a similar Bengali middle-class background. He went on to become an engineer, while I turned out to…

MONDAY MUSINGS The cheat sheet for creativity Teaming up: As many of us probably did not realise or pay attention then — the sight of colleagues at work itself is a de-stressing factor — Getty Images/iStockphoto Taking a break on Mondays may not only drive away the blues but cultivate creativity * We often mistake ‘creativity’ to be a faculty that only artists, writers and composers need to possess