With work-from-home blurring the boundaries of office hours, countries are stepping in to help workers disconnect from work. But veterans have one piece of advice: Do this only if you can afford it. |
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| Steps by the Union government and Supreme Court may help, but a mindset change is needed first. Let us not make the process the punishment |
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| The Cold Wars of the future will be fought over science and technology. Already, borders are quietly closing on intellectual property. As resources become scarcer and new challenges emerge, the world's major powers are preparing. Take a peek inside India’s race to catch up, and maybe speed ahead. |
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| With the trend of curated net sessions becoming common, the romance of tour matches, which were an event before the big event, is fading away |
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| The decarbonisation of the real estate sector is key for India to attain its net-zero goals. But India doesn’t have enough workers to design and build climate-resilient buildings. Solar Decathlon India trying to bridge this gap. |
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| It can be hard starting one’s search later in life. Hard, but not impossible. There are simple early steps to take. A new client of mine is 51, never dated, and is finding her feet already. |
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| Karnataka had a head-start as one of the earliest states, along with Tamil Nadu and Kerala, to have a public libraries act. In 2019, it decentralised 5,623 rural libraries and handed them over to the panchayats |
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| Compared to democracies such as Australia, Britain, New Zealand and South Africa, which had gun massacre incidents of their own but managed to legislate and reduce the supply of weapons, the US is more extreme in terms of corporate power, social fragmentation and ideological schisms |
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| Decide your library vibe, measure bookshelves to match, and create your reading sanctuary. |
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| Pradip Sengupta, a retired geologist, has hand-made pop-up versions of a nursery rhyme collection, an alphabet primer, a nonsense novella, for his granddaughter Myra Sarkar, now 7. | |
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| Chances are you’ve heard of voguing, perhaps through the Madonna song. But what is this dance form from the drag subculture? Why do the moves look like Egyptian hieroglyphs or magazine shoots? Who are the young Indians promoting it here at home? Take a look. |
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| Welcome to week 23 of Problematics! Here are this week's puzzles, admittedly not my own. |
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| Any update in the treaty will be difficult at a time of intense economic instability in Pakistan |
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| No other government has prioritised government capital spending as much as the second Narendra Modi government is doing. |
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