There are no original thinkers in Indian politics anymore, says Ramachandra Guha

A mathematical model clarifies how our most intense desires are reinforced by the release of the neurotransmitter dopamine

Karat has reiterated the obvious that Marxism has failed to come to terms with India

The party should shed its hypocrisy on the freedom of expression

VS Naipaul and Jonathan Franzen’s new writings lack meat. Blame their Brahminical standards of judging cultures different from their own

By the time of his death, Benoit Mandelbrot, once considered a maverick, had significantly changed the way we look at our world

Single layers of ordinary graphite used in pencils turn out to have extraordinary properties

Writing about Peru, the winner of this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature, Mario Vargas Llosa, also writes about our reality

The ouster of Manpreet from the cabinet only shows his cousin Sukhbir is not fit to lead

The talking heads who so insist have no idea what is at stake in Ayodhya