From 'Shri' Ram to 'Siya' Ram Even today, people of Mithila avoid marrying off their daughters in the month that Sita got married. Even today, people of Mithila do not want to marry their daughters into families living in Ayodhya, in fact,...

The real thing Other people, like Farah Khan and Kiara Advani, also play themselves in the show, but with ditsy exaggeration, sending themselves up

And then there were five Both of Agatha Christies' detectives looked at each other and replied in unison, "No we've never worked on a case together."

Three screen signposts to film nagri For a city left with few standalone theatres, what did Rex, Defence and Edward exemplify in the epic age of single screen cinemas?

Tokenism instead of change Why do we have a habit of accepting crumbs from the govt instead of asking for genuine efforts and progress?

A Goan in a Sudtirolean kitchen Although I have familiarised myself with the new cuisine and am on track to master it in two years, unexpected pangs of homesickness have had me turn to the food I grew up eating with my family.

Look what Viv Richards did! Despairing of Richards's nervous, middle-order woes in 1975-76, WI opted to use him as an opener in Adelaide, where he flayed us Aussies with 101. He later became a flag bearer for the crucial No. 3 position.

This Easter I'm going to Transnistria What if you thought you were an independent nation but no one else agreed? Turns out there are 89 of them, including Transnistria.

When the penny drops Caring for others, especially those not in our sight doesn't come naturally to most of us caught in the rat race of life. But thankfully, messengers emerge to give us a shake-up

Scapegoating Aamir, RSS style In hinting at diabolic plots that the actor is hatching with Turkey and China, the right-wing organisation is only fanning paranoia to distract the nation lest it questions the government over its failures

Gharwali baharwali This fantasy responds to a difficult and painful reality - families are structured around rules of property, caste, gender and crushing conformity, yaniki norms of insider-outsider

A life in waiting Has our life turned into a waiting lounge, even as we yearn to revive the systems we miss - be it a Friday movie, Ganesh festivities or suburban train connectivity

Was Harappa a Jain civilisation? Not all Harappans would have been Jain, for we know that people ate fish and meat of cattle, pigs, fowls and wild animals

Puran poli tales Every time I eat puran poli, I remember Shalan Chavan, then principal of the Victoria Memorial School for the Blind at Tardeo, where I was a volunteer for years

He took it deep Perhaps what I'm saying, will go 'bumper' over your head for now, but I'll voice it nonetheless. Your father is cut from a different cloth than any other player in the history of Indian cricket