Figuring Things Out

  This is a collection of short-stories Murakami published in 2020. The title comes from the last story in the collection but the one I like...

  I like books that breathe life into familiar streets. "Kokoro" by Natsume Sōseki begins with a brief description of the street...

  Today's Doodle honours Kano Jigoro, the 'Father of Modern Judo ' on his 161st birth anniversary. A series of neat panels illus...

Each time I finish reading a book by Haruki Murakami I swear that I am not going to fall for his formula again. Just like Bollywood script-w...

  Let us be upfront about two things about this book: first, its a fine piece of work, and second, it might look like a tome but its not - n...

Do we really need to consume so much?  Can we reduce out trips to the market?  How can we reduce wastage? Over the past two months of t...

Last week I signed up for a UN assignment in Afghanistan. It was the culmination of a long drawn out selection process - online applica...

According to a recent issue of the Economist, India's financial health is in trouble.  Rising international oil prices and a decline...

Small businesses are often called the backbone of economies. Relatively low profile and unseen, they play a major role economic growth and...

Apple has started manufacturing iPhones in India. According to a WSJ report, the the iPhone SE series is being produced by Wistron, near...

Every now and then nostalgia bumps into wobbly memory cells, leaving you a bit tongue-tied. This happened to me last week when a friend...

I always do a double-take whenever I spot an article or new item on the Delhi-Mumbai Dedicated Freight Corridor (DFC).  Call it nostal...

What is it that makes leading global logistics companies nervous about handling food consignments to Japan? Over the past few weeks, ...

Recent newspaper headlines proclaimed that India is now poised to overtake Japan as the “second largest producer of steel in the worl...

In an interview reported earlier this week, India's Minister for Commerce and Industry, Ms. Nirmala Sitharaman, requested Japan t...

This has been a long standing mystery: What is holding back the first major India-Japan defence hardware transaction - the sale of Shin...