China’s censors blocked internet access to the terms ‘six four’, ‘23’, ‘candle’ and ‘never forget
10 June 2012Humans can identify old age by its smell, and they find this scent pleasant
08 June 2012A bold new platinum edition of the all-gold favourite launched in 2007
08 June 2012“If you lose your client in those 90 minutes, he will never come again. The money has to be emotionally coerced out of him”
03 June 2012Chan first met Zuckerberg at a party in 2003, when they were both standing in line for the bathroom
03 June 2012The time it took for life to bounce back after near total destruction was nine million years
30 May 2012“We can never [edit/snip] shows made by Balaji Telefilms. Otherwise, the shows will go to other channels”
25 May 2012It was in 1989 that the acid party was formally re-dubbed the ‘rave’ by English musician Neil Andrew Megson
25 May 2012If baboons are anything to go by, high-status males seem to be in better health
23 May 2012Here is the latest Seamaster, a watch that was first launched during the 1948 London Olympics
23 May 2012Brahma Chellaney is a geostrategist and the author of two award-winning books on water: Water, Peace, and War and Water: Asia’s New Battleground
MJ Akbar is the author of, among several titles, Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan. His latest book is Gandhi: A Life in Three Campaigns
TCA Raghavan is a former Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan and Singapore. His first book, Attendant Lords: Abdur Rahim and Bairam Khan: Courtiers and Poets in Mughal India, was awarded the Mohammad Habib Prize by the Indian History Congress. He is also the author of The People Next Door: The Curious History of India’s Relations with Pakistan and History Men: Jadunath Sarkar, G S Sardesai, Raghubir Sinh and Their Quest for India’s Past. His latest book is Circles of Freedom: Love, Friendship and Loyalty in the Indian National Struggle
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