People can become so afraid of losing their potentially lucrative reward that their performance suffers
17 May 2012“What is the harm in corporal punishment? Children fear no one these days. They know we have to promote them”
17 May 2012Despite the merger of Air-India and Indian Airlines, there are still different policies for their pilots
17 May 2012“The trick is to understand that the child is neither a dummy nor a miniature adult. We have to understand the cause of fear”
16 May 2012The Avengers picked up $200.3 million at theatres in the US and Canada, according to an estimate by Disney
16 May 2012A study finds that assisted reproduction raises the possibility of birth defects, but these vary with the methods used
08 May 2012He has won 48 titles in his career so far, and 34 of them have been on clay
07 May 2012An evolutionary balance between cooperation and competition decides the ratio of the right- to left-handed
04 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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