From battle tanks to mosquito repellents to dosas in space, the DRDO is a laboratory of sweeping ideas, many of which will take a lifetime to execute

Michael Sandel, whose Harvard course ‘Justice’ has a cult following, talks about philosophy and the building of good societies

Welcome to the world of augmented reality. All it will take is a pair of Terminator-style hi-tech glasses, and your wish will be the web’s command

And a government that thinks it can discipline it by cracking a whip

And whether ‘you’ exist at all, according to Susan Blackmore, a researcher of consciousness and paranormal experiences

The interesting theory that India might actually end up as a better-fed nation because of climate change

The distance of Kepler 22b from its sun places it in what is called an ‘inhabitable’ band

What it takes to design an SUV: tens of thousands of sketches, 1,800 conversations noted on yellow Post-its, feedback from eight-year-olds, plus a trip to Kenya

The reaction of a literary snob on turning the pages of a Chetan Bhagat book for the first time

Its apartheid past looms over South Africa as a perpetual reminder even as it gets ready to lead the ‘African decade’