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In his book titled, “The Pig that wants to be eaten ”, author Julian Baggini provides this thought experiment, a modern version of the alleg...

Earthlings had known and enjoyed the effect of hallucinatory substances for a long time. But serious research on this subject began only in ...

Sowmya refers to this fascinating lecture by Richard Dawkins in which he describes how astronomical wonder can be presented to children, u...

Around July every year, herds of wildebeests cross the River Mara, on the boundary between Kenya and Tanzania, lured by the greener pastures...

After the 7000th shave of my life, I have learnt that I have been doing it wrong all along. I always shave before I take a shower; now wiser...

R.K.Narayan, in one of his short-essays, describes the agony of a musically-challenged man, forced to attend a Sunday evening concert of Car...

Entrepreneurship, taking calculated risks, the power of an idea that will help you stay ahead of competition- all these are fairly recent bu...

Alvin and Heidi Toffler , authors of the ground-breaking books ‘Future Shock” and “The Third Wave’, have published their latest book, “Revol...

Wimbledon tournament is underway in London. London is where the Queen lives, in her palace, built on the banks of the Buckingham Canal. Unfo...

One of the first things that the present Chief Minister of Tamilnadu, Mr.Karunanidhi, did on assuming office was to visit the Museum where t...

With the World Cup on, the country is in the grip of football mania. Every newspaper and every blogger wants to write about it. Let me jump ...

(Relax. This is the last piece in the PJ series. Author) I have had a nagging headache from morning. Sometimes, it gets quite painful and be...

During a recent stopover at the “ Landmark “ bookshop, I found that the novels, "Sloppy Seconds" and "Second Helpings” author...

It was the summer of June 2012. The population of rural India alone had crossed 1 billion. But, there had been some good tidings too, in the...

V.Gangadhar, who pens a delightful column called, “ The Slice of Life” in the Sunday magazine of The Hindu, laments in his latest piece tha...

I was to take the 6.45 am flight to Delhi. Making generous allowance for the time it takes to reach the airport in the early hours and the t...

The results of the Board Exams were to be released the next day, and sensing the butterflies in my daughter’s stomach, I felt a ‘lighter tou...

Today’s edition of The Indian Express carries an article on “Father’s Day”, authored by someone called Deepak Gharial. The article is titl...

Bill Bryson explains to his American readers what cricket is all about : “Imagine a form of baseball in which the pitcher, after each delive...

I am told by reliable sources that M.K.Stalin, Rahul Gandhi and Uddhav Thackeray are visiting Japan shortly. They have heard so much about t...