Random Jottings

Oxford University Press (OUP), the publisher of the Oxford English Dictionary, has named brain rot as the word of the year.  It is defined a...

I recently wrote a letter in the good old manner – using pen and paper and dropped it in a post office letter box. It was like taking a hors...

British newspapers recently came up with a warning of an impending heat wave all over UK by the end of June. “Cities that will be the hottes...

During its periodic listing of the world’s billionaires, Bloomberg recently came up with an interesting analysis of wealthy Indian families ...

  When some of my friends told me that they were organizing a lecture at a college in Kerala and Arfa Khanum Sherwani from The Wire had agre...

Deccan Herald editor Sitharaman Shankar recently penned down a longish full-page piece on the workings of a newspaper after shadowing his ...

After the dastardly killing of journalist Gauri Lankesh on September 5, 2017, her first birth anniversary was observed in a big way at Benga...