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Is the smartphone, as we know it, set to disappear?

A smartphone is like a screwdriver now. It’s done. Anything more is an overkill. (REUTERS)

Published on Sep 13, 2025 08:56 PM IST

How the corporate life spawns entrepreneurs

Workplace friendships are fleeting; they depend a lot on common misery. (HT Photo)

Published on Aug 23, 2025 08:51 PM IST

What elevator use says about the Indian psyche

Nobody teaches lift etiquettes, though; it’s like an email sign-off you copy from others. How you behave in the lift is learnt the hard way. (Shutterstock)

Updated on Aug 02, 2025 10:12 PM IST

Changing nature of neighbourly bonds

Earlier, neighbourly love was fuelled by scarcity - from power outages to sugar. There is no scarcity now. Each high rise is self-sufficient. (HT Photo)

Published on Jul 19, 2025 11:30 PM IST

Credit, and contempt, for the paths to quick riches

The academic path to wealth is the most common — the one that generates the least wealth at a young age and yet expects 70 hours of work a week. (Shutterstock)

Published on Jul 05, 2025 06:52 PM IST

Spotting Purvanchal of 1800s in the Caribbean

Cricketer Nicholas Pooran, on being asked if he wishes to some day return to his ancestral land to search for his roots, didn’t seem very interested. (AFP)

Published on Jun 21, 2025 06:31 PM IST

One-way ticket to that lonesome town

All the songs on the road are of despair, maybe a way for the driver to express job dissatisfaction (HT Photo)

Updated on Jun 07, 2025 06:44 PM IST

Pakistan’s delusion drip must stop for its own sake

Pakistan needs to confront its past, and be comfortable with it (REUTERS)

Updated on May 24, 2025 07:27 PM IST

Costs of a semi-war, and keeping hope

There is another carnival during the time of war called TV news (PTI)

Published on May 09, 2025 11:22 PM IST

Across the border: An army’s rising desperation

Dealing with such a force is tricky for a democracy (Hindustan Times)

Updated on Apr 26, 2025 08:47 PM IST

The quintessential Indian, value-maximising parent

For parents, a child is always a 10-year old. He may be a skilled engineer or a doctor, but is still a child when it comes to managing money (stock.adobe.com)

Published on Apr 12, 2025 09:07 PM IST

Bringing up innovators, inventors and scientists

You need to build enough corpus so that your children can spend more years in college and happily “opt-out” of final placements to be the inventors and creators they need to be (Bloomberg)

Updated on Mar 29, 2025 08:14 PM IST

A bookmark for your memory called cricket

The goal is to win so much that there comes a time when there is emptiness in victories (ANI Photo)

Published on Mar 15, 2025 07:05 PM IST

Learning linear algebra, courtesy the local salon

Even when you are old enough to earn your bread and pay for your haircut, the childhood trauma ensures you don’t really know how to brief the hairdresser (REUTERS)

Published on Mar 01, 2025 07:15 PM IST

The changing tracks of romance of trains

Ludhiana, India – October 03, 2019: New Delhi - Sri Vaishno Devi Katra Vande Bharat Express train passing from Ludhiana, towards Katra, during its inaugural run on Thursday, October 03, 2019. (Photo by Gurpreet Singh/Hindustan Times)

Published on Feb 15, 2025 08:06 PM IST

Absent in the “work 90 hours a week” debate

The Factories Act, and various Shops and Establishment Acts, limit weekly hours to 48. An ILO study says Indians work 47.7 hours on average every week (Shutterstock)

Published on Jan 18, 2025 08:15 PM IST

Christmas in London, seen with Indian eyes

Shoppers walk along Oxford Street during traditional Boxing Day holiday sales, in London, UK, on Thursday, Dec. 26, 2024. Photographer: Carlos Jasso/Bloomberg (Bloomberg)

Updated on Jan 04, 2025 08:27 PM IST

Intolerable cruelty of sporting careers

New Delhi, Dec 18 (ANI): (File Photo) Cricketer Ravichandran Ashwin announces his retirement from international cricket, on Wednesday. (ANI Photo) (ANI)

Updated on Dec 21, 2024 07:56 PM IST

Why does it take so long to gain wings?

New Delhi, India - August 29, 2024: Students at Miranda House as the new session begins from today at North Campus in New Delhi, India, on Thursday, August 29, 2024. (Photo by Sanchit Khanna/ Hindustan Times) (Hindustan Times)

Updated on Dec 07, 2024 08:08 PM IST

Pain in the present, future will be bright

It’s a movement now — Financially Independent, Retired Early (FIRE), an offspring of the bull market, where the stocks only go up, and monthly expenses stay the same for the next 30 years(pixabay)

Published on Nov 16, 2024 08:10 PM IST

WhatsApp groups are starting to mirror life

Modern life is punctuated by WhatsApp groups you are a part of (AP Photo/Fareed Khan) (AP)

Published on Oct 05, 2024 08:57 PM IST

Why I love LinkedIn, and LinkedIn stories

Published on Sep 07, 2024 09:17 PM IST

Wins, losses and longing in the Olympics season

Gold medalist Andre Agassi (R) from the United States celebrates on the winners podium with silver medalist Sergi Bruguera (C) of Spain and bronze medalist Leander Paes of India following the Men's Singles Final match at the XXVI Summer Olympic Games on 3rd August 1996 at the Stone Mountain Tennis Center in Stone Mountain, Georgia, United States. (Photo by Gary M. Prior/Allsport/Getty Images) (Getty Images)

Published on Aug 03, 2024 09:30 PM IST

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