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There is a story on Israeli tenacity, that goes like this:: “Scientists predict that in a month's time an enormous natural catastrophe ...

Happened to pick up a copy of today’s issue of Mint , at the Mumbai airport. It carries a special feature on “Luxury Splurge”. It has some ...

The journey of mankind spanning 150000 years. (via) . So, we all originated from one place, kept multiplying and moving from place to place...

We are all aware of the old theory about economic cycles in the USA and how the wearing of shorter skirts by women is an indicator of prospe...

In a significant study , scientists have determined that the Grand Canyon could be 11 million years older than previously thought. So, the c...

As regular viewers of the Discovery or National Geographic channels know, elephant society, within a herd, follows a hierarchy that is stric...

An article ( Dec 2007) in The New Yorker, titled “Twilight of the Books’ discussed the decline in reading habit in the last few decades, c...

When Opposition members raised some objections to the generous Rs 60000-crore farm loan waiver in his Budget , the Finance Minister retorte...

The Hindu carries a short report every day on some religious discourse or other that was delivered recently. Quoting from one such discourse...

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...