The total solar eclipse is possible because the Sun and the Moon are almost the same size in the sky. Is it more than just an intriguing coincidence?

The umbrella, with its two conflicting properties—obsolete and enduring—has an important question for us. Why must something evolve at all?

Equations that claimed to predict human behaviour are blamed for Wall Street’s destruction. Increasingly, it seems, there is something naïve about maths

A generation of middle-class boys who grew up in Madras learnt something curious from the Sri Lankan refugees: that there is such a thing called ‘a cause’

And why storytellers cannot tell the whole truth about men

As GM files for bankruptcy, a tribute to a great hoax called the General Motors Diet which among many things impending brides do

Karunanidhi’s harassment of the Congress is a reminder to North Indians that it is time they learn more about the foreigners who live down there

Like a rich man’s son, Delhi is a beneficiary of undeserved privileges. That is at the heart of Bombay’s contempt for Delhi.

The rewards and confusion of being a broadminded Indian

Bullshit as a cultural force