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Mutual funds sahi hai!

When you are new to investing and do not have the appetite to play the stock market, a word of advice you often hear is to invest in Mutual Funds. Now what are these and how are they different from stock market investments? Let us try and understand.

Shringla, unshaken

There is absolutely nothing “accidental” about the steady and impressive rise and rise of a self-effacing powerhouse, who has steered India’s policy in all the right directions from the time he joined the Indian Foreign Service (preferring the rigours of diplomacy to the cushioning of a corporate job) aged 22 and became the youngest Indian consul general to Vietnam at 26.

Future tense

A problem with the future is that no one has been there. So, there are no stories, no research, no evidence on what it is like out there. We step into the future with neither guides nor maps. As philosopher of history R.G. Collingwood warns, “The future leaves no documents.”

FIRE AND BRIMSTONE

India has developed and inducted top-secret Directed Energy Weapons, a military technology of game-changing potential

BJP Trying To Turn India Into An Autocracy

INTERVIEW - M.K. STALIN, chief minister, Tamil Nadu

An artist never ages

Is it a coincidence that both Zeenat Aman and Rekha-two gorgeous movie stars of the 1970s and 1980s-find themselves on the cover of two fashion magazines within weeks of each other? It is indeed serendipitous as both actors have propelled each others' \"comeback\"-on to magazine covers, if not quite into major roles as yet.

Verse, ablaze

Varavara Rao: A Life in Poetry is a collection of poems in English by the Telugu poet and activist, edited by Meena Kandasamy and N. Venugopal. Below, an excerpt from Kandasamy's introduction

Cooked to perfection

Huma Qureshi brought Tarla Dalal to life. The celebrated chef's daughter said that she nailed her part

Craft capital

Rahul Mishra took his craftsmen, an Indian sari and a lehenga to his 20th fashion show in Paris

Hail the healers!

THE WEEK honours doctor-entrepreneurs for their stellar work during the Covid crisis

Zelensky's 10-point peace

Ukraine, fighting a deadly war, has to push for and shape the peace it wants

UNHEALTHY APPETITE

Chinese investment fuels large-scale sea cucumber farming in Sri Lanka, threatening the environment and raising strategic concerns

A mother's angst

Every fortnight as I sit down to write this column, I scan the news websites and social media to update myself on current affairs.

Government will hold election only if it is certain that Imran has been neutralised

Imran Khan refuses to leave the pitch, even though many prominent leaders of his party, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, have left him. He is staring at an uphill battle in court on some 170 cases, and the odds are against him. But Raoof Hasan, his new information secretary, says Khan will continue to bat on. Excerpts from an interview:

Global to local

Modi government is using the G20 summit to make the common man a stakeholder in shaping foreign policy

WEB OF DECEIT

Charge-sheet against DRDO scientist Pradeep Kurulkar reveals a grave security breach

What the thunder said

Opposition parties can take heart from breaking of myths by voters in Karnataka

UP IN THE AIR

With the Lok Sabha elections months away, BJP rivals in Uttar Pradesh are keeping their cards close to their chests

SLIDING FRICTION

Local differences loom large over opposition's quest for national unity

NO HOLDS BARRED

The tussle between the government and the governor has become nasty and political, raising questions about constitutional propriety

DEADLY MIX

The combination of factors in Manipur, including proximity to the international border, have serious implications for India

A capital crisis in Kerala

Capital comes from the Latin capitalis, which means 'head! The head ought to be the map on top of the body. But look at of Kerala.

Early Election To Lok Sabha?

Narendra Modi had been a votary of same-time polls to the Lok Sabha and the assemblies. Seven summers ago he said, we are “trapped in a cycle of elections” and that it was time to go for simultaneous polls. True to style, he called it “one India, one election”.

Wanted: Direct flight to paradise

A short-story collection by Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald titled Bits of Paradise came to mind as I took a sea plane from Male to the island resort of Soneva Fushi in western Maldives.

Guarding daughters

Debasmita Dasgupta’s version of Kashmir is quite impactful

Eat the rich

The week of protests across France and neighbouring Belgium has certainly ruined the summer for those thronging to Europe.

When Zeenie met Insta

Why hello there, Instagram!” is how nonchalantly Zeenat Aman made her debut on the ‘gram, after her younger son, Zahaan, worked on his mom for seven long months, reminding her that she was after all ‘The Zeenat Aman’, with fans worldwide.

Straddling platforms in style

In the news now for Lust Stories 2, Tamannaah Bhatia is revelling in the OTT experience

Beauty spot

With Miss World taking place in India after 27 years, do we have what it takes to bring home the crown?

THE CULTURE COFFER

A one-of-its-kind project is rescuing Kerala’s forgotten stories and traditions from oblivion