Those advocating talks with the Naxals should read the Maoist constitution and check what kind of room there is to negotiate.

...may have prospered through the attention early gay men lavished on their nephews and nieces.

Pavan Varma believes the liberation of our colonised mind requires us to learn from our ancient past. But did the past he envisages ever exist?

Breakthrough DNA sequencing research takes us a step closer to knowing where we came from.

Not even the most fickle politician has changed affiliations as many times as Amitabh Bachchan. Why does the greatest superstar in Indian cinema history hanker so much for political patronage?

From Newton to Einstein, understanding gravity has been the holy grail of physics. Professor T Padmanabhan of the Inter University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune, spoke to Open of the work for which he was awarded the 2009 Infosys Prize for the Physical Sciences.

The key to quantum computing may lie in the mechanism that drives photosynthesis.

The diversity of languages in the world may imply a certain element of selection.

Theoretical advances suggest that gravity may not be one of the fundamental forces of the universe.

The ratio of the golden proportion is cropping up in the strangest of places.