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.
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
26 June 2009A new movie on an extraordinary figure from antiquity focuses on a female mathematician
25 June 2009Hinduism as we know it was a British creation. DN Jha reveals a few home truths
25 June 2009Anything they breed has had its own global emergency. Could that be why we’ve been spared a goat flu scare?
23 June 2009Rahul Gandhi’s first ever full-fledged press conference reveals something about his leadership that’s worrying
23 June 2009Rarely 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?
22 June 2009New research traces how laughter would have first sounded among primates
17 June 2009Three great stories come together in the find of a fossil primate. Of these the media spin is the most extraordinary
16 June 2009Research on polling choices suggests appearance counts far more than substance
15 June 2009Scientists studying bird songs have come up with observations that suggest there is no separating nurture from nature
15 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