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Football is a culture, collectively created by a public that offers its homage to the genius of its uniquely gifted stars. Football clubs are places of community worship at the altar of the game. There is spiritual kinship and ferocious loyalty, rituals and superstitions that link each football fan with every other football fan, be…

How negative emotions linger in the environment When someone feels sad or angry or negative, they create similar vibrations around them. Those vibrations stick to the environment. If you walk into that place, even after they have left, for no reason, you start feeling those similar emotions. You were all right a few minutes ago,…

Let’s get one point clear at the very outset: There’s just no room to whitewash the bedlam at Salt Lake Stadium over Argentine great Lionel Messi’s visit as the concomitant of the city’s enduring love and “passion” for the ‘beautiful game’. There can be no “love” and nothing “passionate” about a grotesque display of anarchy – albeit in a…

That was the day I nearly disowned my one and only brother. Yes, the same man who once borrowed my first edition-worthy set of Austen paperbacks and returned them looking like they had survived a small monsoon and possibly an avalanche. The same brother who sincerely believes Sense and Sensibility is the name of a…

In modern workplaces, team bonding often develops informally — lunch breaks, coffee chats, shared hobbies, or casual end-of-day conversations. These interactions matter, but they also come with a blind spot: they unintentionally exclude people who do not naturally fit into these social circles.What happens to the employee whose schedule, personality, responsibilities, or life stage do…

The 26/11 attacks in India’s commercial capital, Mumbai, were a pivotal moment in the country’s troubled history of terrorism, and while much has been written about the attacks themselves, the documentation of the complex organizational structure and dynamics that underpinned these attacks has, at best, been fragmentary. Terrorism, moreover, has most often been examined in…

Lithium powers our dreams of a cleaner future. It is the hidden pulse inside electric cars gliding down highways, the quiet engine behind rooftop solar systems, and the chemical promise in every climate pledge that imagines a world free from fossil fuels. As the planet warms and nations race to decarbonise, lithium-ion batteries have become…

Most of us think about health as something that pays off in our later years: fewer diseases and better aging. But a recent conversation I hosted with Mayank Bathwal, CEO of Aditya Birla Health Insurance (ABHI) demonstrated that taking care of your health isn’t just good for long-term wellbeing, but is also one of the…

Quiz: Who is your ward councillor? If you have the correct answer, you are in a minority. We, the urban residents of Tamil Nadu, complain endlessly about decaying civic amenities, but remain clueless about our civic representatives. And that is in stark contrast to our neighbours in Kerala. The just-concluded local body elections in Kerala,…

A welcome vibe, a local charm, a homely feel…quaint villages, beaches, rivers, hills and romance with nature, where life comes alive among the sun, sand and sea. Goa is all of this and a sum total of more than this. It also is content in being susegad . But beneath this veneer lies an unease…