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On the eve of the Hockey World Cup, a TOI columnist asks , “Can India give its national sport a new lease of life?” As I wondered in an ea...

Tendulkar has broken yet another record….......yaaawn…… He became the only person in the history of mankind to score….zzzzzzzzzz..... Isn’t...

John Michael Greer of the “Archdruid report”, explains in this post how E.F.Schumacher , the maverick economist, drew some of his central i...

Prem Panicker describes the bowling effort of Harbhajan Singh against South Africa yesterday: The wicket had bounce and sharp turn— the ki...

I have always felt that we shouldn’t be getting into events such as the Olympics or even the Asian Games and needlessly pitting ourselves ag...

Why is the Govt hell-bent on introducing Bt Brinjal? Surely, this is not the most pressing need of the country? As we know from the “Yes Mi...

A staff reporter of The Hindu has filed this story today: The public consultation on commercialization of Bt brinjal here on Saturday witne...

In his column in The Dawn (which was reproduced in the Times of India), Nadeem F Paracha writes: The roots of the modern-day Hindu-Muslim a...

The Apple website describes its latest gadget iPad as “our most advanced technology in a magical and revolutionary device”. In fact most r...

The Journal of Agriculture published in 1838 carried a lengthy article ( page 29 to 63) on the “ Agriculture of Hindostan ”. In its opening...

In the movie, “The Animal”, Marvin the cop meets with a near-fatal accident, but is miraculously saved by a ‘mad surgeon” who transplants d...

Among alternative therapies, homeopathy seems to enjoy higher credibility, as it is cloaked in scientific vocabulary. Its German origin adds...

On the occasion of  Republic Day, let us all spend a few minutes reading the transcript of the first meeting of the Constituent Assembly of...

“The death of Jyoti Basu is an irreparable loss to the nation”, say Surjit Singh Barnala, Siddhartha Shankar Ray, Mulayam Singh, Mayawati an...

"Uttar Pradesh government today told the Supreme Court that its order to stop the work for construction of statues and memorials for Da...

Ray Bradbury’s short story titled, “All summer in a day” is set in a planet where it rains continuously and where sunshine appears only for...

Daughter: Appa, I think my Geography teacher hates me. Me: I don’t think so. Daughter: How can you know if she hates me or not? Me...

'TN cop bleeds to death, even as ministers look on in complete apathy’ screamed TV headlines this week and sanctimoniously lamented the...

"The former President, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, said here on Monday that the Earth, which was rapidly exhausting its resources, would not re...

In a brilliant article titled “Energy and Economic myths ” published in 1975, Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen wrote: ………..we should cure oursel...