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Sujatha, the Tamil writer who passed away yesterday, was not only a gifted and versatile novelist and columnist; he was also a reputed scie...

After my post on IPL brand of tribalism , there have been some interesting developments. Hayden has been reprimanded for referring to Harbha...

In a country where associations and clubs are started on the slightest pretext and for the most bizarre of reasons, nothing should surprise ...

At a seminar that I attended, a senior IAS official delivered a populist address in which he bemoaned the fact that the British had saddled ...

In an earlier post, I had quoted a professor describing modern-day tribalism as “a give-no-quarter and take-no-prisoners activism that dema...

An online magazine just published a book, Not Quite What I Was Planning . More than a year ago, they had challenged their readers to write t...

In his book, The Logic of Life , the author, Tim Harford applies economic theory while discussing the sensitive subject of marriage. He expl...

According to a study conducted by Robin Dunbar , a British anthropologist, there is a “cognitive limit (roughly 150) to the number of people...

Daughter: I am a little confused with these proverbs. One tells me that ‘too many cooks spoil the broth’, while another tells me that “more...

Mark Boyle of the UK is travelling to India. That’s not big news, but he plans to walk the whole distance. Even that’s been done by traveler...

Contrived, no doubt, but whenever Technorati decides to scan the blogosphere for the longest blog title typed out by using any one line of t...

Jonah Lehrer of Frontal Cortex links to a video of a prank ( The day New York froze) and says it reminds him of that Stanley Milgram exper...

“The City Police on Wednesday presented an autorickshaw driver a cash prize for displaying honesty and sense of citizenship in returning a b...

In the Harbhajan Singh imbroglio, the text of the verdict delivered by Justice Hansen refers to the following cross-questioning of witness:...

There was a time when tennis used to be a simple, uncomplicated game. You had Rod Laver playing Stan Smith, and Pat Cash fighting it out wit...

Amit Varma links to a transcript of the ‘verdict’ delivered by Mike Procter after a brief hearing, in the Harbhajan case. There has been m...

"A VOYAGE to India has hitherto been regarded as a very arduous undertaking. After being confined for five months in a ship, crossing t...

Kangaroolations to the Indian team on winning the Perth test. I am glad they took my well-timed advice seriously. Call me a maverick, rebe...

(Walking back with daughter after her ‘theatre’ class) Daughter: Where’s the car? Don’t tell me we are walking back. Me: We are going to ...

I understand that the orange colour of the carrot is the result of Dutch cultivation in the 17th Century, when patriotic growers turned a ve...