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A sports arena is nothing but a surrogate battleground, where primitive or baser instincts to kill and maim are vented out and channelized i...

Knowledge@wharton reviews a book , Turning Learning Right Side Up: Putting Education Back on Track , by Russell L. Ackhoff and Daniel Green...

When oil prices crossed $ 144 a barrel last month, I read somewhere that this was exactly the figure that Osama Bin Laden had targeted as “t...

Some of the drivers of the tourist cars that I hire in smaller towns have this tendency to jump out of their seats, to run around quickly to...

As this visual representation of a typical day illustrates, brands rule our lives. When I wake up in the morning and step into my bathroom,...

In her book “ Smokes and Mirrors ”, Pallavi Aiyar gives an absorbing account of her 5-year stint in China, and the many encounters with in...

“I have just been drilling holes on black paper all these years”, said Abhinav Bindra, in reply to one of the questions from the media, afte...

Every politician from Tamilnadu must be seen championing the cause of Tamil and be ever vigilant against any sneaky attempt to impose Hindi....

The Indian cricket team was criticized for losing the first Test against Sri Lanka , without so much as a fight in the second innings. ...

Daughter: You know what my teacher has done? She has advanced the History test from Thursday to Wednesday. She can’t do that…. Me: It’s on...

"He was full of pieces he had picked up here and there: his mother’s love of fasting and austerities, the English common law, Ruskin’s ...

As expected, some leaders have condemned the serial blasts at Bangalore as a cowardly act. Why ‘cowardly” of all expressions? Are the leade...

I have expressed my amazement before at the commitment displayed by some bloggers, in offering elaborate explanations and profound apologie...

When one has observed the world for a few decades, as I have done, and as closely as I have, one realises that many of the devices that one...

Hillary Clinton lost the Democratic nomination for president because of "gender bias" in the news media, according to a Johns Ho...

Without meaning to pass any moral judgement on fellow bloggers, I have often wondered, why so many of them feel the need to use ‘f’ and othe...

Whenever the Sensex dips a bit, the papers carry a photograph, the next day, of shell-shocked traders staring disbelievingly at the screen i...

After reading through all the enlightening, online responses to the question, “What are you optimistic about? ” posed by The Edge Foundation...

“If I am looking much younger now than ever, it is because I have stopped eating any food item that is white in colour- such as rice, milk, ...

In his book, “Super Crunchers”, the author Ian Ayres refers to the work done by Princeton economist, Orley Ashtenfelter, on the parameters...