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Ranjona Banerji
About the AuthorRanjona Banerji
The writer is a senior journalist who writes on media affairs, politics and social trends.
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    Ranjona Banerji | Ageing to perfection sneering, the fine art

    Does one get crotchetier as one gets older? Or mellower? Does it depend on how crotchety you were when you were young or...

    23 July 2022 11:52 PM IST

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    Ranjona Banerji | Aah... the folly of youth ’twas to ‘other’ the...

    It’s not about how old you are. Maybe it’s about how old you make yourself out to be

    19 Jun 2022 12:18 AM IST

    Cover image of the book Whole Numbers and Half Truths: What Data Can and Cannot Tell Us about Modern India by Rukmini S. (Twitter)Lifestyle
    Book Review | Why the ‘hardest’ journalism is exactly what matters...

    Rather than fix our data collection problems, the pandemic only made them worse

    29 May 2022 12:49 AM IST

    The world of the privileged that includes voluntary diet control and excessive exercise. (Representational Image/ Pexels)Opinion
    Ranjona Banerji | The diet — where dreams go to die...

    And there’s that whole dieting industry ready to -'help-' you get your wallet so much thinner

    22 May 2022 12:28 AM IST

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    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)Opinion
    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 11:30 PM IST

    A spice’s violent trajectory begs us, do not ‘other’ nature, old societiesLifestyle
    A spice’s violent trajectory begs us, do not ‘other’ nature, old...

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

    20 March 2022 12:15 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)Opinion
    Ranjona Banerji | In India’s hospitals, don’t expect end-of-life...

    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)Opinion
    Ranjona Banerji | A streetcar named nostalgia

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

    23 Jan 2022 2:10 AM IST

    The Braided River: A Journey along the Brahmaputra By Samrat Choudhury. (Amazon Photo)Lifestyle
    Chronicle of a great river, its peoples, conflicts and myriad stories

    Is ‘The Braided River’ a travelogue, a personal pilgrimage, a historical search for origins and beginnings or a...

    22 Jan 2022 6:39 PM IST

    A Royal Bengal tiger walks near a lake at the Ranthambhore national park in Sawai Madhopur, Rajasthan (AP)Opinion
    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 7:23 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)Opinion
    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 3:32 AM IST

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