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Board games: What is the price we are willing to pay for efficiency?

A view of the BCCI logo at its headquarters in Mumbai. | Photo Credit: Reuters The more sensitive of cricket followers sometimes pause to ask...

Suresh Menon

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When CEOs linger too long

Last year, amendments to the Companies Act caused one of the biggest disruptions to India Inc’s functioning in recent times. Under the new Act,...

Raghavan Srinivasan

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Chaotic versus meticulous packers

When I was a kid in a family of three, there were clear roles demarcated for my mother, my father and myself, with additional walk-on parts for the...

Ruchir Joshi

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Reasons to go

The end of the year is a time for taking stock, and for me the process is best nudged along while immersed in travel literature. In fact, there is...

Mini Kapoor

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The sacred Indian games

One evening, many years ago, my father asked if I would accompany him to a town in northern Kerala called Thirunavaya. The place was known,...

Keerthik Sasidharan

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The battle for release is on in Kollywood

The Kollywood release pipeline is choked due to too many films trying for the same weekend. A bitter battle has broken out after Vijay Antony tried...