From Buddha to Ambedkar, some of our most outstanding minds have tried to fight caste. Why doesn’t it go away, and why are we so afraid to take note of it?

A long debated question has been answered. Humans and Neanderthals did interbreed and their genes live on within most of us.

Keep the candles ready for yet another satyagraha, this time by Baba Ramdev

A diet rich in capsaicin, the active ingredient in red chillies, burns fat more rapidly than an equivalent diet that lacks capsaicin.

Dreams of a task being learnt improve performance, suggesting that they may be by-products of memory processing.

Probably, because tendencies to stereotype may be a result of genes that encode social fear.

Scientists have found a mechanism to explain the startling diversity of animal colour patterns.

The male tendency to exaggerate flu symptoms finds support, as a new study suggests why this could be so.

South Asian politics is the politics of the family. And never before have we got such a view from the inside. It’s what gives this book its wider relevance.

Fatima Bhutto on the Disneyfication of the family graveyard and why she likes to steer clear of politics.