In this episode of Our Last Week, Anuvab Pal and Kunaal Roy Kapur greet each other and wonder about the function of greetings in our society today. People don't ask, "how do you do?" anymore, they go...
27/12/2016 3:32 PM IST
In India, libraries and archives don't focus too much on the preservation and restoration of old manuscripts. Within this callous environment, Anand Akolkar wages a somewhat lonely war from his humble...
27/12/2016 3:28 PM IST
This week, our avant-garde philosophers and conundrum theorisers, Anuvab Pal and Kunaal Roy Kapur, hit upon a question of decisive importance to all our lives—who is the owner of our lives? They...
13/12/2016 11:54 AM IST
Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard, a harbinger of individualism widely considered to be the first existentialist philosopher, said long ago that the crowd is untruth. And, while that may be...
05/12/2016 4:43 PM IST
Anuvab Pal and Kunaal Roy Kapur weigh in on demonetisation, Indian soldiers and other conundrums.
02/12/2016 5:05 PM IST
This week, Anuvab Pal and Kunaal Roy Kapur become existentialists. Life itself has become a conundrum, what with the scrapping of most of our currency and Donald Trump emerging victorious in the US pr...
02/12/2016 4:45 PM IST
The Tata–Mistry controversy puts Kunaal Roy Kapur and Anuvab Pal in a conundrum. Why doesn't anyone in a position of power ever retire in India? The old guard never seems to retire. A change of...
28/11/2016 5:28 PM IST
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"Fifth Avenue is laid in gold, every mansion a citadel of money and power. Yet here you stand, a giant, starved and fettered . . . You too will have to learn that you have a right to share your neighb...
28/11/2016 5:08 PM IST
If we are to trust Elon Musk, and if humans actually become interplanetary imperialists, we're not too sure that they will survive for too long. But, one thing we can be sure about is that their bacte...
16/11/2016 1:55 PM IST
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"No matter how many great and wonderful things there are in life, the best thing ever is bread and jaggery." — Sukumar Ray, writer and poet Do you think candy is American? Think again. The wor...
11/11/2016 6:12 PM IST
In this episode of "Our Last Week", Anuvab and Kunaal get a letter from a man in Kansas City who thinks his grandfather is a bad tipper. Anuvab can relate to him because his father is a bad tipper as...
08/11/2016 11:37 AM IST
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Can you imagine a beauty contest in which the participants did not put on any make up, did not have a swimsuit round and did not give answers to the judges' questions? Well, then you probably haven't...
07/11/2016 11:55 AM IST
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A study conducted by the government of India states that around 20% of what we buy in urban India ends up being thrown away, and an astounding 40% of the food produced in India is wasted. A UN report...
25/10/2016 4:43 PM IST
Parle G — the name is enough to bring back childhood memories of fragrant biscuits dunked in hot milk. And the struggle to eat the soaked, soggy biscuit quickly before it crumbles back into the...
18/10/2016 12:51 PM IST
Let's rewind a little, back to the year 1965 — India had just scaled Mount Everest under the leadership of Captain Manmohan Singh Kohli, an expert mountaineer and commander in the Indian Navy. I...
18/10/2016 12:46 PM IST
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Bhutan, India's small, landlocked neighbour, has discarded the GDP (Gross Domestic Product) as an indicator of its growth and development. Instead, the country has picked a rather unique concept to de...
17/10/2016 3:25 PM IST
Since it was first distilled in the Middle Ages, gin has seen many ups and downs in terms of acceptability and popularity. The British are believed to have brought the gin into India during the Raj, w...
27/09/2016 12:04 PM IST
Conversations, communication... we think that these are things limited to interactions between humans and animals, the language that we can hear and see. But, what if there was a language we could not...
22/09/2016 5:28 PM IST
A lot of households have old copper or brass utensils stockpiled in store rooms and we've often wondered why we don't use them anymore. Well, it's because a few decades ago, the utensil market was tak...
09/09/2016 6:41 PM IST
There's a spectrum of colour all around us, present in every part of our lives. From the clothes that we wear and the houses we live in, to our natural surroundings, there's a different shade around e...
31/08/2016 5:12 PM IST
