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Hartosh Singh Bal

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Science
Beehive as a Brain

Much like neurons in a brain, individual bees may provoke or inhibit the response of an entire swarm

15 December 2011
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Voices
‘Unfriending’ Kapil Sibal

This government seems to be working overtime to prove that it does not think its decisions through

08 December 2011
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Science
Tales from the Sperm Wars

The observation of very low motility in naked mole rat sperm illustrates the power of evolutionary logic

07 December 2011
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Voices
Who Answers for the Sins of a Ministry?

The compulsions of coalition politics cannot be any government’s answer to every wrongdoing

25 November 2011
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Books
Prize Reads

This 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 2011
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Science
Supermice

Turning off an ‘inhibitor’ makes muscles twice as strong in mice and worms, and perhaps in human too

24 November 2011
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Voices
The Media Does Need Regulation

But the kind of regulation Katju has in mind does nothing to address the real issues at stake

18 November 2011
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Science
How TB Tricks the Body

The bacterium uses the body’s immune defences to obtain shelter and then multiply

16 November 2011
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Books
Sonia, an Uncritical View

Clearly, a book for a foreign readership by an ill-informed writer. Why foist this on us?

11 November 2011
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Science
The Raw and the Cooked

Human evolution may have gained much from the extra energy cooking made available

11 November 2011

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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