How Viveka Babajee’s family handled the publicity after her death. And what happens next.
28 July 2010In 2004, the Bombay HC fined the Shiv Sena and BJP Rs 20 lakh for organising a bandh in Mumbai.
12 July 2010On the Foreign Policy magazine list, the higher a country’s score, the lower is its rank.
01 July 2010What do new parents do when their parents start feeding the baby junk food and homeopathy pills?
30 June 2010A vuvuzela produces 127 decibels of sound. Rock concerts generally come in around 115 dB.
18 June 2010An Indian sinkhole that got media attention developed at Runjh in HP in November 1970.
10 June 2010Originally called Pakkuman, and then released as Puck-Man, the game turned 30 last month.
04 June 2010A company has developed a system that relies on the Iridium satellite network to send data in real time.
27 May 2010To pick the speed of a ball requires calibration. Hawk-Eye uses six cameras to track the ball.
06 May 2010A godman claims that 7,000 Sindhis have converted to Christianity in the past two years. And he is hell-bent on getting them back.
14 April 2010Brahma Chellaney is a geostrategist and the author of two award-winning books on water: Water, Peace, and War and Water: Asia’s New Battleground
MJ Akbar is the author of, among several titles, Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan. His latest book is Gandhi: A Life in Three Campaigns
TCA Raghavan is a former Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan and Singapore. His first book, Attendant Lords: Abdur Rahim and Bairam Khan: Courtiers and Poets in Mughal India, was awarded the Mohammad Habib Prize by the Indian History Congress. He is also the author of The People Next Door: The Curious History of India’s Relations with Pakistan and History Men: Jadunath Sarkar, G S Sardesai, Raghubir Sinh and Their Quest for India’s Past. His latest book is Circles of Freedom: Love, Friendship and Loyalty in the Indian National Struggle
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