The Kala Ghoda fest is supposedly about nine days of ‘cultural’ activity. But it’s really more a street fair.
17 February 2010Boa, an 85-year-old Andamanese, who was the last living member of an ancient tribe, died on Republic Day.
16 February 2010A group of art students learnt synthetic biology to make bacteria produce the smell of rain in a lab. They almost succeeded.
05 January 2010Lucid language, poignant moments and one hell of an ending. If only there was a plot to fill the 200-odd pages.
30 December 2009The national bird of Australia is busy making babies in Indian poultry farms. And they are not here to be slaughtered, not for 10 more years at least.
08 December 2009The bizarre world of ants and why a handful choose to study it
28 October 2009A rare genetic disorder can be the most crushing and lonely ordeal to suffer.
15 October 2009While Indians rarely figure in the list of Nobel Prize winners, we haven’t been entirely missing either.
07 October 2009The yield from the Hiroshima atom bomb was 18 KT. The Pokhran ‘fizzle’ yielded around 27 KT.
03 September 2009