Madhavankutty Pillai

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’

The style is reminiscent of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s, but Binoo K John works with a disadvantage. He writes in English

Nuclear haves and have-nots are blinkered hypocrites in this memoir of former IAEA head Mohamed ElBaradei

Peace Nobel laureate ElBaradei on the dangers and inequities of the nuclear world. And why he admires Manmohan Singh so much.