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Slakes thirst, powers rituals – and fills an iconic well with faith

Means multiple political births – and as many miscarriages

The answer (can’t keep) is ‘blowin’ in the wind’. Four times in under a fortnight we’ve been shaken by catastrophic – and totally avoidable– tragedies. 68 lives were snuffed out. Parents, siblings, breadwinners, children, even those who’d…

Neta rhymes with pheta, no? That’s why all those addressing election rallies resemble bridegrooms – or bearers. Both looks are valid. One will arrive to baarat-grade band-baaja; the rest will have to remain wait-ers. Having thrown their hat…

Fali Nariman always had time for good causes, even for reporters looking for free advice.

Forget the film that swept the 95th Academy Awards. As far as we are concerned, our two Oscars are everything, everywhere all at once. Of course we’ll make a song and dance about them, especially ‘Naatu Naatu’ which bagged Best Original.…

Rajiv Gandhi’s assassins have been released by the Supreme Court to the protest of the Congress despite being forgiven by Sonia, Priyanka and Rahul. Let political pundits hammer out if this too marks a separation of party from dynasty. But…

The desperate scenes in Afghanistan have dredged up memories of the two Kabuliwallas of my childhood.

Delta held our attention and headlines these past months and it wasn’t going to let the Olympics steal its meddle. So, just three days into the great Games, came a Reuters report proving that this variant is easily Citius, Altius, Fortius…

They had united in 1990 when the US-based Rice Tec tried to appropriate ‘Texmati’