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Natural selection

The evolutionary benefits of friendship

23 July 2014
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The ongoing episode of the Israel-Hamas conflict

Since 8 July, Hamas has fired nearly 1,000 rockets and mortars into Israel and the latter has carried out about 1,500 strikes

17 July 2014
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Nature and Nurture

Genes play as important a role in a child’s learning as environmental factors

16 July 2014
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India
In a manner of speaking

Jaitley mentioned the word cities 17 times, underscoring his Prime Minister’s vision of smart cities

10 July 2014
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Bullet trains in India

A public-private partnership is favoured for the project and Rs 100 crore will be set aside to develop its infrastructure

10 July 2014
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Science
The evolution of feathers

Plumage did not emerge to help birds fly, but to either attract mates or stay warm

09 July 2014
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Fifa World Cup cooling breaks

Fifa is believed to have rejected the argument from the Brazilian players’ union that all 1 pm games be moved to 4 pm, when the temperature is usually lower

03 July 2014
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The National Herald case

The two Gandhis own 76 per cent of Young Indian, which Swamy accuses of high level fraud

26 June 2014
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Do we have free will?

What we do may not really be our own doing

26 June 2014

Authors

Pratap Bhanu Mehta

Pratap Bhanu Mehta is one of India’s most influential columnists and public intellectuals

Brahma Chellaney

Brahma 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

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

Ram Madhav

Ram Madhav is a member of the National Executive of RSS and a founding member of the governing council of India Foundation. He is the author of, among other titles, Partitioned Freedom and The Hindutva Paradigm

Makarand R Paranjape

Makarand R Paranjape is an author and columnist. Views are personal.

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