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.
A study of a 50,000 year old wound suggests a possible reason for the extinction of Neanderthals
28 July 2009A fascinating statistical law was brought into play to substantiate claims that the Iran election was rigged
22 July 2009A solar eclipse provides a rare glimpse of the sun’s atmosphere, otherwise difficult to see
15 July 2009He suffers from amusia and can’t tell the difference between the national anthem and Beethoven’s Fifth
14 July 2009The discovery of a midsized black hole may explain how gigantic black holes form in galaxies
08 July 2009Ida, the 47 million-year-old primate fossil unveiled to the public a little over a month ago, was an important discovery. But not for the reasons that this book sets out to establish
08 July 2009The Communists have come in for opprobrium, not because of the middle class’ aspirations, but because they have devalued their own worth
03 July 2009Water is a resource Gujarat would have been flooded with had the Narmada project gone by plan. Instead, the state remains parched and farmers watch helplessly as reserves flow out to sea. It’s a story of alarming apathy
02 July 2009The meticulous study of the finches of Galapagos continues to reveal the mechanism by which natural selection operates
01 July 2009Recent genetic research on rats shows the possibility of taming hitherto untamable species
29 June 2009CELESTIAL HEROISM IS a bestseller, unless it is badly made. In it merges great survivor dramas and the romance of breaching the boundaries of human…
10 April 2019Pratap Bhanu Mehta is one of India’s most influential columnists and public intellectuals
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 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 is a member of the National Executive of RSS and a founding member of the governing council of India Foundation. He is the author of, among other titles, Partitioned Freedom and The Hindutva Paradigm