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In an earlier post , I had referred to a book called, “Pulse : How Nature is inspiring technology in the 21st century ” which explains how m...

The friend that I had cited in my previous post, at least, was unabashed in his beliefs and made no attempt to couch them in pseudo-science...

A friend was in hospital, undergoing treatment for a severe infection and I called him up on his mobile phone, prudently deciding not to vis...

The fourth and final part of my trilogy on “History of Chennai” that I had posted on Sulekha. Due to popular demand, I had to stop the ser...

I just read a report that a boy born in the mountainous enclave of San Marino in northeast Italy is likely to live to 80, the world’s longes...

In his book, The Curtain , which he describes as an essay in seven parts, Milan Kundera refers to a book called The Internal-Combustion Mo...

History of Chennai- Parts 1 , 2 and 3 that I had posted on my Sulekha blog. The second part was published in the Deccan Chronicle today, f...

The famous anthropologist Gregory Bateson liked to tell a story about New College , in Oxford, England. The main hall there was built in th...

I have just finished reading a book called “Everyday Greatness ” that is packed with wisdom from the pages of Reader’s Digest and filled wit...

( via) The International Herald Tribune had reported in Dec 2006, “ Imagine a modern metropolis with no outdoor advertising: no billboards...

Notice how when you ask for directions to reach a particular place, different people refer to different landmarks to guide you? Might make p...

In his book, “Pulse : How Nature is inspiring Technology of the 21st century ”, Robert Freaney provides a fascinating glimpse into advances ...

Yesterday’s edition of The Hindu has this story filed from Colombo : The serial strike by the Tamil Tigers on the main base of the Sri Lanka...

In his book, “Marketers are liars”, author and blogger, Seth Godin makes this interesting point : "An average frog’s brain weighs ten...

First came the news that Conservationists working in Peru got their first natural glimpse of a rare and unusual bird called the long-whiske...

Daughter to wife : Can I borrow a book from the library today? Wife : No way! You have your exams. Take out your text books. Daughter to me ...

I read these lines here and have been profoundly impacted: "It is said that we are all three different people: the person we think we a...

In the hullabaloo and hysteria over India’s loss in the World Cup, so many different theories have been put forward to explain what happened...

I am gladdened by the news that India's latest communications satellite, INSAT-4B, was successfully launched on Monday by Arianespace...

A friend – an IIT/IIM combo- works for the credit card business of a multinational bank. His job, as I understand it, is to comb and mine th...