September 24, 2022: Your essential reading and watching list, recommended by seasoned China-watchers

• Read Time : 4 mins

• Tags
• FF Life
• Xi Jinping
• FF Recommends
• China
• books

Doodling sharpens your visual thinking and communication skills. But the process is teaching me more than sketching

• Read Time : 3 mins

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• FF Life
• FF Recommends
• sketching
• Doodling

September 10, 2022: Notes on being intuitive, being consistent, and unlearning to learn

• Read Time : 4 mins

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• FF Life
• learning from sports
• FF Recommends
• Siddharth Shetty
• triathlon

September 4, 2022: Great conversations that weave together a fuller picture of the times we live in, in its multiple dimensions—politics, economy, business, sports, music, and the spiritual mind

• Read Time : 7 mins

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• FF Life
• Barkha Dutt
• Ruchir Sharma
• Gundappa Viswanath
• Jawaharlal Nehru
• JRD Tata
• Ustad Vilayat Khan
• Rahul Gandhi
• Swami Ranganathananda
• Interviews
• Atal Bihari Vajpayee
• Manish Tiwari
• FF Recommends
• P Chidambaram

August 20, 2022: A laidback, do-nothing, soul-recharging holiday in tranquil Tranquebar

• Read Time : 5 mins

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• FF Life
• FF Recommends
• Tranquebar

The stories that shaped modern India with new sensibilities

• Read Time : 24 mins

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• FF Life
• FF Recommends
• India@75
• Independence Day Special

August 6, 2022: There is more to chess than following the game

• Read Time : 6 mins

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• FF Life
• 44th Chess Olympiad
• Bruce Pandolfini
• Garry Kasparov
• The Queen's Gambit
• Walter Tevis
• Bobby Fischer
• Viswanathan Anand
• Munshi Premchand
• Chess
• Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa
• Frank Brady
• AR Rahman
• FF Recommends
• Shatranj Ke Khilari

Exploring a modern side of Prague, a city steeped in history

• Read Time : 8 mins

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• FF Life
• Prague
• FF Recommends
• PiNKBUS
• Banksy
• Terezin
• Andy Warhol

Five smart gadgets—for seamless Wi-Fi, a different angle in photography, better sleep, keeping your brew hot, and to track health indicators

• Read Time : 3 mins

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• FF Life
• smart gadgets
• FF Recommends

There are some places that you go for sight-seeing and to do all things touristy. Then there are other places you visit to find tranquillity. Shillong is one such destination. The second in our two-part series on seeking silence in nature

• Read Time : 7 mins

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• FF Life
• Shillong
• FF Recommends
• travelogue