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.

Thanks @Cleartrip, your infuriating AI assistant claims I did not even book a ticket, when I am desperately trying to cancel with the trip id, and I can find no way to reach a human.Clearly, your business model is based on the Hotel California model, checking out any time, but.

What do you want to know?.

What a wonderful way to spread happiness, and a very strong message!.

India has adopted the policy of playing Pakistan in every multilateral tournament so as not to be banned or censured by international sporting federations & risk our chances of hosting major sporting events. At the same time, they will not play Pakistan in bilateral series.

Happy birthday Calcutta, its exactly 335 years since Job Charnock first made land here. The city of books and tea and adda. And some of the greatest minds of our times.

This week's quiz in the TOI.

If Sanju Samson is batting at No 6 in the state cricket league, there is a very good chance that he has been asked to reinvent himself, or wants to reinvent himself as a finisher, given Shubman Gill's inevitable top order entry. Has the talent to bat anywhere, so it should be.

Lord Swaraj Paul passed away yesterday, in a country that he had adopted 59 years ago. When Swaraj Paul was 35, he moved his family and business to UK just so that his 3 year old daughter Ambika could get the best treatment for leukaemia. After she passed away in 1968, he threw

This week's quiz in the TOI

Can someone please explain to our cricket experts that a bowler cannot decide how much workload their body can take, no matter how hard they work at it. Shane Bond was a perfect example, Shaun Tait, Pattinson, Nehra. All wanted to play every international match, their bodies.

Part 3 Daddy’s Diary. 16th August 1946. Direct Action Day Calcutta. Moved by our precarious condition, the darwan unlocked the gate and led us to his small room adjoining the gate. We were starving for over 30 hours, except for that one boiled egg Sudhanya had managed to eat,.

Part 2. Daddy’s Diary. 16th August 1946. Direct Action Day Calcutta. 15 minutes later. I could see the van of the ‘Shanti Michhil’, the peace procession with joint flags of the Congress and Muslim League approaching Harrison Road. Something just clicked. It was now or never.

From my father's diary. 16th August 1946. Direct Action Day Calcutta. …At about 5 pm, the entrance door of the mess was smashed down and a large crowd carrying knives and iron rods, stormed into the quadrangle shouting communal slogans. We came down with whatever weapons we.

Fact checking in the seventies.#sholay50

Town Hall meetings in the seventies.#Sholay50

Employee motivation in the seventies.#Sholay50

Bharat Matrimony & in the seventies.Jai and Mausiji.#Sholay50

My most evocative memories of Independence Day are not about the national anthem or the flag raising or the speeches at Red Fort. They are about schoolchildren around the country singing 'Sare Jahan Se Accha,' usually in different keys, but all valiantly trying to hold on to some

Justice Broomfield: Mahatma Gandhi's trial, 1922."Mr. Gandhi, you have made my task easy in one way by pleading guilty to the charge. Nevertheless, what remains, namely the determination of a just sentence, is perhaps as difficult a proposition as a Judge in this country could