Much like neurons in a brain, individual bees may provoke or inhibit the response of an entire swarm
15 December 2011This government seems to be working overtime to prove that it does not think its decisions through
08 December 2011The observation of very low motility in naked mole rat sperm illustrates the power of evolutionary logic
07 December 2011The compulsions of coalition politics cannot be any government’s answer to every wrongdoing
25 November 2011This year’s Booker winner and last year’s winner of the Prix Goncourt have arrived simultaneously at Indian bookstores. Here are some good reasons to pick one over the other
24 November 2011But the kind of regulation Katju has in mind does nothing to address the real issues at stake
18 November 2011The bacterium uses the body’s immune defences to obtain shelter and then multiply
16 November 2011Clearly, a book for a foreign readership by an ill-informed writer. Why foist this on us?
11 November 2011Human evolution may have gained much from the extra energy cooking made available
11 November 2011Brahma 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
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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