Madhavankutty Pillai

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

An honest review of Diwali extravaganza Blue.

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

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

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

Some of them spent their best years in prison. They were young when they went in and middle-aged when they were released. Some are still serving time. What does freedom mean to such people? Here it is in their own words

Kapil Dev, without any struggle, has got complete independence from the rules of the English language

A second-hand bookseller in Mumbai dreams everyday of liberating himself from his name

“One out of ten patients have problems because of inadequate knowledge of sexual positions”

Kishore Bhatt, 57, has a long relationship with the dead. A caretaker of unclaimed corpses, he’s ensured dignity for more than 2,000 dead in the past 40 years