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Hartosh Singh Bal

Hartosh Singh Bal turned from the difficulty of doing mathematics to the ease of writing on politics. Unlike mathematics all this requires is being less wrong than most others who dwell on the subject.

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Science
Bamiyan Fragments Tell a Tale

New findings on how the statues were constructed and coloured

02 March 2011
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Voices
What about Mr Modi?

In a season of corporate crime, it is time to junk ‘growth’ as an excuse for mass murder

26 February 2011
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Voices
The Leadership Deficit

At a time when the country needs leadership, India is being managed by an able and dutiful economist who far too often forgets that he is supposed to possess a spine

18 February 2011
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Science
Selective Memory

During sleep the brain preferentially retains memories and skills we most need

09 February 2011
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Science
The Light of Nabokov’s Life

Butterflies were his other passion and a new paper tells us how accurate some of his theories on dispersal were

03 February 2011
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Science
Ramanujan’s Insights Yield a Startling Result

Work done in the last years of his life has been extended to reveal an unexpected formula

27 January 2011
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Science
A Matter of Touch

Androgynous faces are perceived as male or female depending on how and what you touch

20 January 2011
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Science
Asymmetry of Life

The prevalence in living organisms of certain kinds of molecules over their mirror images may have originated in space

13 January 2011
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Art & Culture
Does Dalrymple know what racism really is?

The ‘racism’ charge is absurd, and designed merely to deflect attention from the real issue.

13 January 2011
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Voices
Lies, Damn Lies and Kapil Sibal

There is nothing notional about the 2G losses and the minister cannot but know this

13 January 2011

Authors

Brahma Chellaney

Brahma 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

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

Ram Madhav

Ram Madhav is president, India Foundation, and is with BJP

Makarand R Paranjape

Makarand R Paranjape is an author and columnist. Views are personal.

TCA Raghavan

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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