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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
Birth of the Earth

A new model solves a key problem in the theory of the formation of planets around a star.

14 January 2010
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India
From INC to Congress Inc.

It was a party of educated professionals once, and Rahul Gandhi wants to make it so again. But his father before him had tried, and he will succeed only if he finds a new way to do it.

06 January 2010
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Science
Secrets of Starvation

Researchers soon hope to find drugs that mimic the anti-ageing and anti-cancer impacts of low-cal diets.

06 January 2010
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Science
The Taste of Smell

The impact of smell on taste is known to all, but even your sense of taste may influence what you smell.

30 December 2009
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Living
The Sugar Pill That Doesn’t Work

How the Indian government wastes valuable public money by promoting homeopathy for healthcare.

23 December 2009
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Science
A Perfect Blue

A chance discovery in a laboratory leads scientists to a blue pigment that is close to perfection.

23 December 2009
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Science
An Author’s DNA

Physicists in Sweden have come up with a mathematical fingerprint that could identify an author.

15 December 2009
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India
God Has Left Politics

There’s proof Indians are becoming more religious. Yet the days of politics based on religion seem to be over. What happened?

09 December 2009
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Science
Mass Murmur

Despite all pessimism, the Large Hadron Collider is back on track.

09 December 2009
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Books
Danger and Denial

Three years after his Nobel victory, Orhan Pamuk shows the prize was no retirement award with a fine novel about love and memories

04 December 2009

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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