Sri Sri Ravi Shankar is the latest phenomenon in Indian politics. His brand of spirituality doesn’t cater to the mass market, as Baba Ramdev’s does

A new movie on an extraordinary figure from antiquity focuses on a female mathematician

Hinduism as we know it was a British creation. DN Jha reveals a few home truths

Anything they breed has had its own global emergency. Could that be why we’ve been spared a goat flu scare?

Rahul Gandhi’s first ever full-fledged press conference reveals something about his leadership that’s worrying

Rarely do academic quarrels enter popular discourse. But the latest battle has thrown up a gripping controversy. Could the people of Indus Valley read and write?

New research traces how laughter would have first sounded among primates

Three great stories come together in the find of a fossil primate. Of these the media spin is the most extraordinary

Research on polling choices suggests appearance counts far more than substance

Scientists studying bird songs have come up with observations that suggest there is no separating nurture from nature