Why Mumbai Can’t Save Hearts

On October 9, 2013, Hvovi Minocherhomji emerged from the hall where she had been writing an exam. Hvovi, persuaded her parents to come out for a celebratory lunch. When they walked out after their meal, the 20-year-old went into cardiac arrest and collapsed on the pavement.

In Defence of the Em-Dash

Like an inhibition-free starlet, the younger, flashier em-dash has left its older counterparts — the comma, colon and semi-colon — in the dust and risen to the top of the grammatical game.

How did this happen — and is there any stopping it? And do we even want to?