On Engineers Day, retweeting a story about my father and a dam. In 1976, my father's company, Hoogly Docking & Engineeering, was slowly bleeding to death. The problem was the dry dock, where ships could be built and repaired, was not working as the lock gates were damaged.

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Birth anniversary of Jagadish Chandra Bose, who is a personal hero. Not just because he was a formidable scientist who did path breaking working on microwave radio optics, not just because he was also a pioneering science fiction author with Niruddesher Kahini, not just because

It’s the birth anniversary of the amazing Chadwick Boseman, the star of Black Panther & many other films. We lost him to cancer when he was just 43. I always remember him with this lovely story that he related after making it in Hollywood. While studying at Howard University

It's Thanksgiving in the US, and I can never quite get over the fact that the Turkey is not from Turkey, but is native to North America In fact the bird got its name from the similar looking guinea fowl which Turkish traders brought to Europe. When the settlers went to America,

Five years ago, when the lockdown was very very real, Baseline put together a really fun show with Smriti and Jemima interviewing Indian athletes from across the spectrum - from Sindhu and Sania to Rohit and Yuzi. Their bond was apparent even then, but to walk out from a Big Bash

The Indian International Centre has a rather special way of greeting uninvited visitors! Fortunately, we were not monkeying around!

DELHI IS A MASK! Chennai is early morning music, Goa the sea breeze, Kochi the fishing nets in the sunrise. Delhi is a mask. Bengaluru is a park, Dehradun a steaming cup of chai, Kolkata is fresh puja flowers. Delhi is a mask. Indore is poha jalebi, Bhopal an azan, Darjeeling a

Marjorie Boulton Green was a student of CS Lewis and Tolkien at Oxford, an authority on Esperanto and a nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2008. And yet, she will be remembered in India for something completely different. In the late 1940s, she was being courted by an

If cricket wants to take its place as a genuinely global sport, it must stop this farcical business of ensuring India and Pakistan are always in the same group. All are aware that it is a money spinner for the broadcasters, and that all the member countries approve & benefit, but

This week's quiz in the TOI.

The most distressing example of stereotyping! A young man ran out of a shop in Bhimtal at 7:30 am to offer me a variety of monkey caps. Is it that obvious that I am Bengali?

It's the amazing @thesushmitasen's birthday. For those of you below 40, I cannot describe the excitement in India in 1994, when a young lady from Calcutta confidently answered her final question at the Miss Universe Contest about the essence of being a woman. Trailblazer!

Birth centenary of the amazing Salil Chowdhury. His work in films like Madhumati, Anand and Choti Si Baat are just a fraction of his musical output. But he came to the Bombay film industry as a writer. His story, Rickshawalla, based on a Tagore poem was the basis for the Bimal

The final stand of Major Shaitan Singh & the 13 Kumaon, on this day 63 years ago. The action at Rezang La always remind me of the epitaph at the War Memorial in Kohima. "When you go home, tell them of us and say For your tomorrow, we gave our today."

An inspirational story. @tuhinmishra75!

A lot of debate and diatribe on whether a legend of a previous generation is a better player than some contemporary cricketers. And truth being told, there is no clear yardstick for comparison. Rules, safety equipment, training, opportunity have all changed beyond recognition.