The only way to evade diabetes is to stop evading responsibility for what we eat

What must we do to survive the persistent onslaught of dengue, malaria, chikungunya, swine flu…?

Naomi Wolf’s new book on the vagina is as misogynistic as they come

Signs of the Continental Drift are still visible in this densely populated part of Mumbai

In literature focused on insanity, the gaze seems to have shifted from the insane. The patient is no longer the victim; that status now belongs to the caregiver

Real life intrudes on fiction all the time. Kalpish Ratna indulge in some literary detection as they search for clues to the true character of Arthur Conan Doyle in Sherlock Holmes’ life and movements

Shoot on sight, and don’t think twice. That seems to be the credo of the Italians on board the Enrica Lexie, unchanged since the European intrusion into our waters in 1498

Whatever Jane Austen might think, PD James’ Death Comes to Pemberley ranks among the finest examples of literary mimicry, a genre that has good reason to exist

The abject surrender of medical intelligence in the age of gadgetry

A dispassionate history of sex and the powerful mythologies that have surrounded it down the ages