Driven by kindness
Driven by kindness
Chennai autorickshaw drivers, generally a reviled lot, showed during the recent rains that they could be ...
Mythili Rajkumar
Mythili Rajkumar
mythili.rajkumar@thehindu.co.in
From literature to business, it’s been a culture shift but I am enjoying every minute of it. I survive on my sense of humour. Love Wodehouse, westerns, crime thrillers, and a good laugh with family and friends.
Walk into my parlour...
Walk into my parlour...
It’s one of those places where you go all primed to spend just what you intend to, exactly the way you want ...
Happy Birthday, Madras
Happy Birthday, Madras
Madrasa suthi pakka poren...marinavil veedu katta poren.. If you are struggling to read these Tamil words in ...
Gripe corner
Gripe corner
The other night, with an early morning train to catch the next day, I dashed into a leading retail store in T ...
Bond with the best
Bond with the best
Right at the end of GN Chetty road in Chennai, just before it meets up with Mount Road, if you were to look up ...
Sweet summer sweat
Sweet summer sweat
Mythili Rajkumar recalls a time when Chennai summers meant much more than power cuts and water shortages.
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Superconductors from IISc
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Foldable hospitals
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Why option price falls more than it rises for the same change in underlying
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