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Kanika Datta: 'Westernisation' & its discontents

Karnataka minister deplored westernisation for 'making young women irresistible to loutish men'

Shuma Raha: The A to Z of culture

'Cashless' now means 'less cash' and e-batuas are a fashion statement

Vikram Johri: Cosmic emotions

All successful science fiction plays essentially upon human drives and desires

Rahul Jacob: The neurosis of notebandi

The average monthly mobile bill in India is Rs 120 to Rs 180, which does not suggest a population with much money to put in e-wallets

Kanika Datta: Lines of control

The culture of subornment and corruption the licence raj bequeathed lives on in the visceral Indian art of queue-jumping

Kanika Datta: Fashion statements

The incoming First Lady is a former model who has retained all the glamour of the ramp

Vikram Johri: Reality or fiction?

Already, leading lights such as Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk have spoken of the dangers of artificial intelligenc

Kanika Datta: Melania's moment

Donald Trump's presidency is replete with unknown unknowns

Dhruv Munjal: Klose call

Miroslav Klose left Bayern Munich much before Guardiola was appointed manager of the German club in 2013

Shuma Raha: Lure of family feuds eye culture

That's the thing about family feuds - they're such irresistible stories usually

Rahul Jacob: Our own Neverland

High quality of Pakistan Coke Studio and their well acted serials suggest it is better for Fawad Khan to be left unharmed by the haute melodrama of mainstream Bollywood

Uttaran Das Gupta: Puja, through cellphones

Photography familiarises the unfamiliar. But for visitors to Durga Puja pandals, it is the opposite: Exoticising the familiar

Vikram Johri: Streaming change

In a statement released this week the company said the Prime service was the bestseller during the just-concluded Great India Festival sale

Shuma Raha: Veni, vidi, veggie

Last month, a public interest litigation (PIL) filed in the Gujarat High Court sought a ban on the augmented reality game, Pokemon GO.

Kanika DAtta: A road by any other name

Changing the name of Race Course Road may belatedly save the multitudes from moral turpitude

Aabhas Sharma: A few good men

This year's EPL is the Woodstock of football and promises to be a rock and roll affair for the next nine months

Rahul Jacob: Autumn of our discontent

Roger Federer was not even at Flushing Meadows, having elected to sit out the rest of 2016 to allow a knee injury to heal

Shuma Raha: When 'he' is a 'zie'

The use of "he" as a generic pronoun is deemed offensive, and the PC rulebook will be thrown at you if don't follow it up with a polite "or she"

Shreekant Sambrani: Changing India's sporting culture

All of us who are crying ourselves a river over India's poor performance at Rio would do well to introspect and take the right road to Tokyo

Shuma Raha: Simply Semenya

If you go to the Twitter account of South African sprinter Caster Semenya, you will find that many of her tweets contain messages like this: "Be happy in front of your haters. It kills them." It's because hate, great blasts of it, often comes her way. Semenya, 25, is the favourite to win the gold in the women's 800m in Rio on Sunday. In fact, she has been in such blistering form this year that she could end up shattering the event's 33-year-old record set by Jarmila Kratochvílova of Czechoslovakia. Yet, even as she stands on the threshold of greatness, Semenya has been at the centre of controversy, debate and at times, plain loathing.Semenya is hyperandrogenic, with significantly higher levels of testosterone than that occurring in an average woman. The controversy around her pivots on this. Testosterone builds muscle mass, spurs red blood cell production, and boosts the oxygen carrying capacity of cells, all of which are critical for an athlete's peak performance. The question is, si