-
ALL DEALS 
February 6, 2016 Photo Credit: Facebook 12.5K Total Views The trajectory followed by the Congress since its defeat in the 2014 Lok Sabha election shows that the grand old party remains convinced that its most ardent supporters live in rural India even as the urban middle class remains smitten by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s charms. Consequently, the party […]
-
ALL DEALS 
February 6, 2016 The ugly truth behind a ‘heartwarming’ story of Muslims performing a Kashmiri Pandit’s last rites
Photo Credit: Courtesy: Rahul Pandita 54.5K Total Views On January 30, an octogenarian Kashmiri Pandit, Janki Nath, died in his home in Malvan village in south Kashmir’s Kulgam district. He had a government job, but he retired just as Malvan was emptying of its Pandit inhabitants in 1990. He sent his daughter to the safety […]
-
ALL DEALS 
February 6, 2016 As right-wing BJP seeks to appropriate Bose, a reminder: Congress expelled him for being too left
20K Total Views For some time now, the Bharatiya Janata Party has been on the look out for historical icons. After building an impressive present as India’s largest party, it is only natural that it would now look to construct a notable past. Given the colossal role that the Congress played in the freedom struggle, […]
-
ALL DEALS 
February 6, 2016 ‘People like him do drugs, have a high sex drive’
Photo Credit: Akshay Mahajan 28.8K Total Views Over the past few years, I’ve stopped keeping track of the news on a daily basis. No good seems to come from it. As a result, I’m the last to know about anything. On Wednesday, while I was running around on a writing assignment in my hometown of […]
-
ALL DEALS 
February 6, 2016 Punjab bypoll is now a one-horse race
Photo Credit: Narinder Nanu/AFP 17.4K Total Views It was being seen as a semi-final, an acid test for the main contenders before the Punjab assembly elections next year. But the Khadoor Sahib assembly bypoll is now turning out to be a damp squib, with two of the three major parties pulling out of the contest. […]
-
ALL DEALS 
February 6, 2016 What flight attendants really think about when they first greet you
Photo Credit: Tom Purves/Flickr 15.5K Total Views I’ve been a flight attendant for 25 years. Greeting passengers at the door requires concentration on several levels. Of course the objective is to make you feel welcome and comfortable, but that’s only one aspect. While I’m trying to give that impression, I’m evaluating you very closely, and […]
-
ALL DEALS 
February 6, 2016 David Cameron is to blame- Indians are falling out of love with British universities
Photo Credit: Pool New/Reuters 4.6K Total Views A record number of Indian students are enrolling for higher education in the US – in just two years, it rose by 71% to 181,051. But the trend’s been just the opposite for the UK. In the last five years, the number of Indian students opting for British […]
-
February 4, 2016 Hepaticas: early spring jewels
Petal power: Hepatica flowers come in all shapes and sizes. Photograph: Michael Myers Robbie Blackhall-Miles Alongside the first of the green-flowered hellebores and the early flowers of thefetid adders tongue, hidden among the white canvas of snowdrops in the woodland garden, there grows a plant that takes some closer inspection. Hepatica transsilvanica(dark form). Photograph: Michael […]
-
February 4, 2016 Alys Fowler: variegation isn’t always a bad thing
‘What about that nice variegated Solomon’s seal?” I point to a lovely patch outside a Greenwich brownstone as we wander about Manhattan. “Surely that’s an acceptable variegation.” “Nope,” my friend says emphatically. “I do not like variegation.” (“I do not likegreen eggs and ham,” I whisper to myself out of earshot.) I point at […]
-
February 4, 2016 Gardens: plants that live on air
Something in the air: Tillandsia plants have specialised hair-like structures on their leaves that act like sponges. Photograph: Alamy James Wong Over the past 20 years, a growing body of scientific evidence has suggested that simply being around plants can have an important impact on mental and physical health. Even while sitting at your desk, […]
-
February 4, 2016 Gardens: all hail the vulcan palm
Branching out: the stately vulcan palm. Photograph: Joel Sartore/Getty Images/National Geographic Creative James Wong For houseplant obsessives like me, offerings in garden centres can be a bit samey. In the face of two decades of declining sales, retailers are sticking to an ever-shrinking palette of safe options. But every so often you come across a […]
-
February 4, 2016 Gardens: chamomile lawn
Gardening can be expensive. Even if you side-step the ready-grown plants at the garden centre and start from scratch, some seeds can cost as much as £1 each (think F1 hybrid tomatoes). Others, such as the tiny dust-like seeds of begonias, can literally sell for more than their weight in gold. For plant geeks on […]
