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“Ice-creams or semi-conductor chips?” How food delivery became India’s new normal

  India’s Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal recently criticised the country’s start-up sector for its lack of real technological innovation, singling out food delivery app operators...

What’s the point of drama class?

  Parents sometimes ask: what’s the point of drama class? Many want their children to choose elective subjects, especially in Year 12, that parents think...

Trump the Peacemaker: Nobel Prize for India–China Detente

  Nobody ever thought it could happen. India and China - fighting for decades, border skirmishes, soldiers freezing in the Himalayas. BAD blood. Everybody said...

How can you be sure your clothing has been produced ethically?

  Today’s consumers are swimming in a sea of information. Products are marketed with big, bold words such as “sustainable”, “ethical” and “organic”. They sound...

Cut Open, Healed Within

  4th March 2025 – A quiet surrender It was 8 a.m. I was on my adventurous ride - lying on a hospital bed with wheels,...

Auntyji: Soup-eriority complex

  Dear Auntyji, (Family meal prep I consider myself a loving and supportive father and husband - but from time to time, I do feel my...

The Indosphere reawakens

  India was once the heart of the ancient world, claims Scottish historian William Dalrymple in The Golden Road, his sweeping tribute to the subcontinent’s...

Indian Link Loves: our August Favourites

READ Literary superstar Amitav Ghosh’s latest masterpiece, Wild Fictions, is a pastiche of the themes explored in his earlier work. What emerges is a stunning,...

Bringing Grandma’s British Indian recipes back to life

  Sydney resident Keith Pfeiffer has spent the last eight years documenting recipes of both traditional Indian and Anglo-Indian origin on his website. The Anglo-Indian...

All hail the rise of Fake Sangeet – or should we call it Insta Sangeet?

  Last year, when India’s richest man Mukesh Ambani’s son Anant Ambani got married, the world didn’t just watch, it gaped. Thanks to social media’s...

Victoria Falls: The Smoke That Thunders

  There’s a moment, just before the microlight lifts off, when I start seriously questioning my life choices. I’m strapped into what is essentially a...

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