The writer is Associate Editor.

January 19, 2019 01:11 IST
The media— at home and abroad— can’t find their way out of dealing with illnesses or Brexit
Sat, Jan 19, 2019
January 01, 2019 05:55 IST
Human progress is continuous rather than episodic — so, the advances we shall see in 2019 would probably be the products of work that was pioneered years or decades ago.
Tue, Jan 01, 2019
December 29, 2018 00:48 IST
A rich bounty of non-fiction narratives explains a rapidly changing world; the best of fiction mines the human heart
Sat, Dec 29, 2018
December 29, 2018 00:10 IST
2018 will be remembered as a cusp in the culture of communications, when public faith was withdrawn from large digital corporates and privacy became an overarching concern.
Sat, Dec 29, 2018
December 23, 2018 07:00 IST
Shorn of our professional markers, how do we define who we are?
Sun, Dec 23, 2018
December 22, 2018 06:49 IST
The army chief’s comments on women in frontline duties trigger a war of words
Sat, Dec 22, 2018
December 15, 2018 19:13 IST
The state election results have mellowed TV warriors. So, is it the end of the prizefighting era?
Sat, Dec 15, 2018
December 15, 2018 00:02 IST
Author Yuval Noah Harari discusses humanity’s fictions about matters as diverse as revolution and the possibility of a dystopic world without women
Sat, Dec 15, 2018
December 08, 2018 00:10 IST
The theoretical physicist who wandered into chemistry and learned crystallography to answer one of biology’s oldest questions
Sat, Dec 08, 2018
December 02, 2018 06:00 IST
Two stories tell us something about the future of flying
Sun, Dec 02, 2018
December 01, 2018 01:21 IST
An informed account of the periodic table, and how chemistry relates to the world around and within us
Sat, Dec 01, 2018
December 01, 2018 00:35 IST
While the Kartarpur pilgrim route between India and Pakistan leads to a political spin in the media, CNN is fact-checking the White House.
Sat, Dec 01, 2018
November 24, 2018 00:43 IST
The farce that defines TV debates lives on while the Twitter CEO’s attempts to smash ‘Brahmanical patriarchy’ get drowned in outrage.
Sat, Nov 24, 2018
November 10, 2018 00:30 IST
CNN’s White House reporter is denied access to the President for asking difficult questions while a paper shows why the media must learn the elements of analytics and artificial intelligence
Sat, Nov 10, 2018
November 04, 2018 05:00 IST
Robert Baden-Powell’s accounts of his life in India are marked by a blistering honesty.
Sun, Nov 04, 2018
November 03, 2018 00:21 IST
When narratives of hate violence go unnoticed on social media platforms
Sat, Nov 03, 2018
October 27, 2018 00:09 IST
Exploring the remarkable life and work of physicist Stephen Hawking who dared to look upon the universe
Sat, Oct 27, 2018
October 27, 2018 00:05 IST
How the theatre of the absurd plays out around temples and on television screens
Sat, Oct 27, 2018
October 20, 2018 02:00 IST
With 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, Harari focuses on the hectic moment between the remote past and the distant future — the present day and tomorrow’s world, a confused interregnum in which nothing seems to make sense, and the screens of the phones we are riveted to hold no answers.
Sat, Oct 20, 2018
October 20, 2018 01:33 IST
Khashoggi’s killing threatens to upset the global order, in India the top news still concerns gender
Sat, Oct 20, 2018
October 13, 2018 01:40 IST
The #MeToo wave has swept away India’s most known comedy group and created a new, potent platform of protest.
Sat, Oct 13, 2018
October 13, 2018 00:30 IST
A vivid exploration of lives in the postwar decades that reaffirms how political violence never really gets a neat closure.. Ondaatje calls it warlight, and he strikes the flame by rubbing the strands of destiny together, illuminating a world deeply connected by a history of political violence.
Sat, Oct 13, 2018
October 07, 2018 06:00 IST
The tremendous oracular value of science fiction. It has had tremendous oracular value, but unfortunately, science fiction's most popular works predict dystopias.
Sun, Oct 07, 2018
October 06, 2018 00:12 IST
The quiz element is comparatively small in comparison to the informational material, making up about a third of the book.
Sat, Oct 06, 2018
October 06, 2018 00:06 IST
POTUS attempts to defend Brett Kavanaugh, farmers are forcibly stopped from entering Delhi and logic leaks out from fuel price regulation policies.
Sat, Oct 06, 2018




