The writer is Associate Editor.

October 04, 2018 00:47 IST
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2018 has been awarded to three scientists who have accelerated and directed the creative power of evolution by putting “Darwin in a test-tube”.
Thu, Oct 04, 2018
October 02, 2018 02:19 IST
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 2018: James P Allison of the US and Tasuku Honjo of Japan have been awarded for developing a paradigm-breaking cancer therapy.
Tue, Oct 02, 2018
September 29, 2018 01:14 IST
Of the SC Aadhaar verdict that raised hopes, Brett Kavanaugh’s old dates, and how POTUS gets laughed at in the UN General Assembly
Sat, Sep 29, 2018
September 23, 2018 06:00 IST
Two photo books attempt to capture the spirit of a city that has always been vibrantly alive.
Sun, Sep 23, 2018
September 22, 2018 06:02 IST
How POTUS brought good cheer to hurricane victims in North Carolina and a Bengal minister’s offer to administer fractures at a gathering of disabled people.
Sat, Sep 22, 2018
September 15, 2018 00:15 IST
When Serena Williams was right in principle but not on the particulars, and who helped the kingfisher fly
Sat, Sep 15, 2018
September 08, 2018 00:43 IST
Some hope of a better life for the LGBTQ community in India, perhaps a prayer for the “Urban Naxals”, and the siege within the POTUS palace
Sat, Sep 08, 2018
September 02, 2018 06:00 IST
Perhaps, popular fiction and sci-fi films should show how political systems and not the many cameras that surveil society is the enemy.
Sun, Sep 02, 2018
September 01, 2018 00:48 IST
Chinmay Tumbe’s debut book traces the history of migration in India and locates it in the immediate socio-cultural context of the times.
Sat, Sep 01, 2018
September 01, 2018 00:14 IST
Anti-nationals have graduated to Urban Naxals, the tough tonic of notebandi which didn’t cure black money and why POTUS hates Google
Sat, Sep 01, 2018
August 25, 2018 00:32 IST
Former POTUS lawyer Michael Cohen admits hush money to women as Trumped-up charge and Kerala’s beef with a Harvard professor
Sat, Aug 25, 2018
August 19, 2018 06:30 IST
Could it be the ultimate unknowable?
Sun, Aug 19, 2018
August 13, 2018 05:31 IST
These were stories of homecoming, by a writer who was uneasy in his ancestral home. Such uneasiness about one’s cultural moorings may be seen as an act of assertion, of the need for the writer’s identity to be rooted only in the self.
Mon, Aug 13, 2018
August 11, 2018 00:13 IST
An arrest of a Bangladeshi photographer and a newsroom response to Israeli airstrikes
Sat, Aug 11, 2018
August 05, 2018 06:00 IST
Did a cartridge made of cow and pig fat really spark the 1857 Revolt? Even contemporary accounts of the events of 1857 report this as a rumour, and some speculate that it was circulated by the wily gentlemen of Awadh.
Sun, Aug 05, 2018
August 04, 2018 00:57 IST
The drama over National Register of Citizens in Assam takes centre stage on television while M Karunanidhi’s illness throws open questions about privacy
Sat, Aug 04, 2018
July 28, 2018 00:08 IST
Of Mehul Choksi’s travel itinerary and the sultan of swing who’s set to be Pakistan’s next prime minister
Sat, Jul 28, 2018
July 22, 2018 06:00 IST
In India, we seem unaware that we’re living out the youngest period of the Geologic Time Scale — the Meghalayan Age.
Sun, Jul 22, 2018
July 21, 2018 01:17 IST
But political parties in the Lok Sabha enter the House camera-ready, and how the Donald is in a Russian roulette.
Sat, Jul 21, 2018
July 14, 2018 00:27 IST
Indian television’s interest in the rescue of the Thai boys trapped in the Chiang Rai cave picked up slowly but breathlessly.
Sat, Jul 14, 2018
July 08, 2018 00:00 IST
How a British bureaucrat breathed new life to the old tale of Malik Muhammad Jaisi’s Padmavati. A spate of prose retellings of the metrical epic on the Rajput queen followed on the heels of the controversy.
Sun, Jul 08, 2018
July 07, 2018 00:07 IST
The origin of a doctored video that spread fear of child-lifters in India, and why POTUS needs a dictionary.
Sat, Jul 07, 2018
June 16, 2018 01:04 IST
Upamanyu Chatterjee returns with a murder mystery that is both an exploration of food politics and a backstory to his first novel
Sat, Jun 16, 2018
June 16, 2018 00:20 IST
Trump was responding to De Niro’s reprise of his famous role in Raging Bull at the Tony awards. Before introducing the nominees, he had said: “It’s no longer ‘down with Trump’, it’s ‘(expletive deleted by editor) Trump’.”
Sat, Jun 16, 2018
June 09, 2018 01:01 IST
Asia’s first journalist was also the first champion of press freedom. A fine retelling of the story of James Augustus Hicky attempts, yet again, to rehabilitate the “scurrilous, wild Irishman”
Sat, Jun 09, 2018




