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Madhavankutty Pillai

Madhavankutty Pillai has no specialisations whatsoever. He is among the last of the generalists. And also Open chief of bureau, Mumbai  

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Art & Culture
From the Horse’s Mouth

The Kala Ghoda fest is supposedly about nine days of ‘cultural’ activity. But it’s really more a street fair.

17 February 2010
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Living
Obituary of a Tribe

Boa, an 85-year-old Andamanese, who was the last living member of an ancient tribe, died on Republic Day.

16 February 2010
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Living
In Search of the Smell of Rain

A group of art students learnt synthetic biology to make bacteria produce the smell of rain in a lab. They almost succeeded.

05 January 2010
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Books
So, What Happened?

Lucid language, poignant moments and one hell of an ending. If only there was a plot to fill the 200-odd pages.

30 December 2009
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Living
Grow Emus, Young Man

The 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 2009
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Living
God’s Own Feminists

The bizarre world of ants and why a handful choose to study it

28 October 2009
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Cinema
Revenge of the Rs 200 Ticket

An honest review of Diwali extravaganza Blue.

21 October 2009
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Living
The Inheritance

A rare genetic disorder can be the most crushing and lonely ordeal to suffer.

15 October 2009
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India and the Nobel Prize

While Indians rarely figure in the list of Nobel Prize winners, we haven’t been entirely missing either.

07 October 2009
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‘Fizzle’ as in Bombs

The yield from the Hiroshima atom bomb was 18 KT. The Pokhran ‘fizzle’ yielded around 27 KT.

03 September 2009