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The writer is a senior journalist who writes on media affairs, politics and social trends.

Ranjona Banerji | What do you do, and other hairy questions

I have no husband and I have no children and this apparently automatically means that I have a lot of time to spare

24 April 2022 1:02 AM IST

Our knowledge of the Cosmos does tell us that colours of the flowers we love look the way they do because our star emits light mainly in the visible range. (Representational Image/ AFP)

Ranjona Banerji | When the tears comfort rather than the flowers

Dealing with grief is hard enough by itself, but often it is others who find your grief harder to deal with

26 March 2022 11:37 PM IST

Book Review | A spices violent trajectory begs us, do not other nature, old societies

Book Review | A spice's violent trajectory begs us, do not other'...

What happens when you get to the last page of a book feeling a bit confused and intrigued?

20 March 2022 12:14 AM IST

The country saw over 90,000 total hospital admissions for children 17 years old and under from August 1, 2020 to January 13, 2022, CDC data showed. (Representational Image/AP)

Ranjona Banerji | In India's hospitals, don't expect end-of-life care

We have learnt as a family that what we lack most terribly in India is geriatric care and an understanding of the last...

20 Feb 2022 3:01 AM IST

There was a magical quality to a tram, as if you were somehow removed from the mad frenzy of normal Calcutta traffic. (Representational Image/ PTI)

Ranjona Banerji | A streetcar named nostalgia

These two cities, as Bombay, Mumbai, Calcutta, Kolkata, define my life

23 Jan 2022 2:09 AM IST

A Royal Bengal tiger walks near a lake at the Ranthambhore national park in Sawai Madhopur, Rajasthan (AP)

Ranjona Banerji | Some tips and tricks to survive the holidays

May the virus stop controlling us, and see you on the other side

19 Dec 2021 1:51 AM IST

Hoping for a world that understands whats going to happen to all of us and a world which doesnt look at bandaid quick fixes but at longer, happier solutions. (DC Image)

Ranjona Banerji | Old age, the final frontier; best to manage...

I forgive all of you who still believe that in some golden age we lived for hundreds of years

21 Nov 2021 3:31 AM IST

The sense of freedom was palpable in the UK in mid-September. Representational Image. (AFP)

Ranjona Banerji | It's like 1980s redux as UK feels Brexit pain

The stranglehold of the pandemic was such that all societies now strain at the leash for freedom

24 Oct 2021 3:42 AM IST

Ranjona Banerji | Manoj, and the art of bonding professionally

Manoj was one of those people, one of the many we met in a short but harrowing journey from India to England this week

19 Sept 2021 2:26 AM IST

We used to call paisa naya paisa at the time, because the decimal system had replaced the old one of 16 annas in a rupee in 1957. (DC Image)

Ranjona Banerji | How paisa got purana' & self-reliance lost currency

The old coins of 50 paisa and 25 paisa were called aath (eight) anna and char (four) anna

22 Aug 2021 2:28 AM IST

It was Roger Federer we wanted to watch but we watched everything that was on offer.

Ranjona Banerji | Keeping score, for the love of tennis and for mother

It was in the 2000s that this love for tennis was reborn to a fulltime obsession and it was Roger Federer who did it

25 July 2021 1:09 AM IST

I remember clearly the first two major breaks I made with family listening time Pink Floyds Dark Side of the Moon and then eponymous Dire Straits debut album. (By arrangement)

Ranjona Banerji | Man, they don't write songs like that anymore

My parents' best friends had an Osibisa album they all loved, with the Afro-rock band's signature psychedelic flying...

20 Jun 2021 7:34 AM IST