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June 09, 2018 00:43 IST
Drones are being trained to control violent crowds and how a former Indian president did the Right thing
Sat, Jun 09, 2018
June 02, 2018 00:58 IST
Of rescuers who risk it all, stings that bite and Elon Musk’s intriguing attack on the media
Sat, Jun 02, 2018
May 27, 2018 00:05 IST
Has the octopus evolved from alien life? The tentacles of the panspermia theory still entangles the scientific community.
Sun, May 27, 2018
May 26, 2018 00:05 IST
Opposition alliance, or the lack of it, is potent fuel for television, and why attempts to end the Cold War have gone cold
Sat, May 26, 2018
May 19, 2018 00:15 IST
How the Karnataka election results have taken an equestrian turn and made tourism companies happy, plus the normalisation of violence — at home and the world
Sat, May 19, 2018
May 12, 2018 01:30 IST
Of bovines who don’t know better, bots which know a lot and those who separate the facts from the fake.
Sat, May 12, 2018
May 05, 2018 00:55 IST
How the Tripura government isn’t a lauki to sink nails into and POTUS might have trumped-up his health certificate
Sat, May 05, 2018
May 03, 2018 00:05 IST
Ashok Mitra was a polymath and polemicist. He was feared and loved because he had the language and sensibility of the poet.
Thu, May 03, 2018
April 29, 2018 06:26 IST
Perhaps, aliens can help our digital assistants with linguistic assistance.
Sun, Apr 29, 2018
April 28, 2018 00:34 IST
A dummies guide to swimming to the distant shores of outer space and setting up shop on stars and planets.
Sat, Apr 28, 2018
April 28, 2018 00:05 IST
Asaram Bapu’s ungodly acts and India’s slip down the slopes of press freedom.
Sat, Apr 28, 2018
April 21, 2018 01:19 IST
How social media (mis)shapes perceptions of war and the perils of being too real for reality TV
Sat, Apr 21, 2018
April 15, 2018 00:01 IST
One man’s mission to preserve the material culture of Kolkata’s middle class.
Sun, Apr 15, 2018
April 14, 2018 00:50 IST
Such was the media blitz over Congressi chhole bature, that the grapevine says that the ruling party’s counter-fasters were strictly instructed not to be seen or photographed eating in advance. But the point at issue was just some chhole, not a banquet
Sat, Apr 14, 2018
April 07, 2018 00:36 IST
Fake news, empty threats and what a summary suspension of a journalist’s accreditation could mean
Sat, Apr 07, 2018
March 24, 2018 03:19 IST
The story of Cambridge Analytica is all about sovereignty, democracy and the media
Sat, Mar 24, 2018
March 18, 2018 00:12 IST
Games, by Irving Finkel, is a better souvenir than the Kohinoor.
Sun, Mar 18, 2018
March 17, 2018 01:51 IST
Diabetes now affects all classes of society, and this book puts the egalitarian disease in perspective
Sat, Mar 17, 2018
March 17, 2018 00:48 IST
TV stations try to rustle up khichdi fears, forgetting it’s comfort food. Elsewhere, Russia has touched a nerve with the Brits
Sat, Apr 07, 2018
March 15, 2018 05:04 IST
Stephen Hawking, the world famous scientist, passed away on March 14, 2018. Hawking belittled the afterlife as a “fairy story for people afraid of the dark.”
Thu, Mar 15, 2018
March 10, 2018 00:37 IST
The national myth suggests that the Chinese-American and the Indian-American are fundamentally different, but they achieve the same paradise on earth because they are American first. Exactly like the Americans who are just American.
Sat, Mar 10, 2018
March 10, 2018 00:20 IST
Literary critic Bruce King’s memoir records his peripatetic life across the globe, including his sojourn in the “small world of modern Indian poetry in English”
Sat, Mar 10, 2018
March 04, 2018 00:00 IST
Journals that are peepholes into lived histories of the modern era.
Sun, Mar 04, 2018
March 03, 2018 01:56 IST
Yet another White House communications director, Hope Hicks, has resigned, and the rise of creepy cameras
Sun, Mar 04, 2018
February 24, 2018 00:57 IST
How Mandarin, briefly, was Pakistan’s third official language and the overload of prettiness in the Trudeau portraits.
Sat, Feb 24, 2018





