Ajit Agarkar recently announced his retirement from all forms of cricket which was quite a surprise since most forms of cricket had presumed it long before. A day after the announcement, he has approached another cricketer whose similarities with Agarkar start and end at their same retirement month, Aila yes, Sachin Tendulkar. Agarkar reached out […]

‘Dear Father’ is a hindi play featuring Paresh Rawal, who makes a comeback to theatre after almost 16 years. It is one of the longest running plays in India, having been performed more than 200 times over the last decade. For me, the play defines Paresh Rawal as an actor of strength, an actor of […]

Travelling in a bus on a Monday to go to an Axis Bank to buy a CAT Voucher didn’t give me any jitters. During the registration process, when I was about to select my exam slot, I paused for a while. After deep consultation with my mother and my aunts over the various CAT-friendly dates […]

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Dearest Father I never wanted to share my words with you this way, yet I am up with pen on this because you didn’t leave me any option other than this or partially because I am confined, to talk to you tete-a-tete, and reclusive. In so far I remember, I never talked to you except […]

Today is “World Food Day” World Food Day is celebrated every year around the world on 16 October in honor of the date of the founding of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in 1945. The day is celebrated widely by many other organisations concerned with food security, including the World Food […]

Congratulations to everyone who has published their work and enjoyed the recognition that has come along with it. Like the previous week, this new weekly digest brings to you the best and most popular articles every week, containing the five most read articles and the editors’ selection of the most exquisitely written pieces of work. […]

Students at IIFM can decide to do the wildest things as part of their summer internships. From studying finance, marketing, organizational behaviour or strategic management to running after birds in forests, nothing is impossible for the IIFM student! I got unique opportunity of having my summer Internship at Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun where I […]

When I worked in the newspapers, a ‘blooper’ day was the busiest of all. One, because it started early with that portentous call from the editor at 5.00am (four hours after you have closed the edition and hit the bed) informing (read yelling) about the slip-up and second, because confab on the subject would be […]

Sitting on my porch, as I was reading the epic ‘Jobs’ biography by Walter Issacson, one word kept recurring in my mind and that word was ‘Innovation’. Right from the time Apple was founded; Jobs epitomized innovation in everything he did. Starting from the name ‘Apple’, it’s logo, the products and ultimately Jobs’ working style; […]