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

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

Childrens literature, if you can call Tolkien that, has been a go-to from whenever I stopped being a child, if that ever happens either. (By arrangement)

Ranjona Banerji | Freedom, as understood by escapists and readers

Those fables and fairy tales told to children follow similar patterns: that adults can be evil, you have to look out for...

16 May 2021 8:02 AM IST

Ranjona Banerji | Old sport! The story of my fitness journey

After you reach a certain age and size, in my case at least, your thoughts turn to another age and size, largely...

18 April 2021 12:00 AM IST

One of the biggest achievements of this book is the lucid, non-judgmental manner in which Mahapatra debunks all the various swirls of misinformation around Covid-19 and its spread. DC Image

Book Review: Urgent, cogent, matter-of-fact ready-reckoner on the...

'Covid-19' does not just tackle the pandemic from scientific perspective but looks at historic, social and psychological...

11 April 2021 8:34 AM IST

One asked me to look up the Internet for recipes, the other explained how to cook the kachnar.

Ranjona Banerji | What cooking teaches, how tastes are learned

I really learnt how to cook by experimentation. And by eating. To replicate tastes and memories

21 March 2021 4:27 AM IST