The writer is Associate Editor.

October 29, 2017 00:00 IST
One doctor’s journey to producing the world’s biggest scientific study of the human mind during clinical death.
Sun, Oct 29, 2017
October 28, 2017 00:32 IST
Rahul Gandhi finds his voice and Twitter expands on his Gabbar Singh Tax jibe while a thesis brings down Cambridge University’s repository website
Sat, Oct 28, 2017
October 21, 2017 03:15 IST
A lively introduction to the most disturbing questions of the modern world
Sat, Oct 21, 2017
October 17, 2017 00:01 IST
After Einstein's prediction and LIGO's detection, 16-nation European Southern Observatory announces first direct visual identification of the source of a gravitational wave.
Tue, Oct 17, 2017
October 15, 2017 00:11 IST
The physics Nobel goes to Ligo, but science fiction is the real star
Sun, Oct 15, 2017
October 14, 2017 01:25 IST
The Talwars were constant story-bait for the same media which didn’t seem as proactive in covering Congress’ press conference on Jay Shah recently
Sat, Oct 14, 2017
October 07, 2017 00:30 IST
Race remains a crucial context to the US gun violence narrative and how Kazuo Ishiguro has a pale view of the fake news world
Sat, Oct 07, 2017
October 06, 2017 00:15 IST
The Nobel Committee corrects course — chooses a Japan-born Briton who, despite not being Murakami, has long been considered adequately worthy of the Award.
Fri, Oct 06, 2017
October 04, 2017 00:02 IST
Swedish Academy makes amends for 2016 ‘miss’, recognises Laureates’ ‘decisive contributions to Ligo detector and the observation of gravitational waves’ — a vindication of Einstein’s prediction, and the biggest thing in physics since the discovery of Higgs boson.
Wed, Oct 04, 2017
October 03, 2017 00:30 IST
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 2017 has gone to three American scientists for the discovery of the molecular mechanisms that control circadian rhythms, the biological clock that anticipates day/night cycles to optimise the physiology and behaviour of organisms.
Tue, Oct 03, 2017
October 01, 2017 00:04 IST
The importance of reading historical texts and why revisionists attempt to change history.
Sun, Oct 01, 2017
September 30, 2017 01:43 IST
Media houses sometimes bury the news before its time, and Wittgenstein is telling you to pull the plug on the TV.
Sat, Sep 30, 2017
September 23, 2017 00:44 IST
One newsman mistakenly appropriates a slice-of-life of another, and POTUS takes on the wrong ’Un
Sat, Sep 23, 2017
September 17, 2017 00:09 IST
For language and literature to thrive in a diaspora, there needs to be a guardian angel to champion its cause.
Sun, Sep 17, 2017
September 17, 2017 00:00 IST
Author Nayantara Sahgal imagines an India that is being bludgeoned into a monoculture in her new work. It is a story, she says, about the present.
Sun, Sep 17, 2017
September 16, 2017 02:03 IST
The landscape of unfreedom is familiar, but Nayantara Sahgal’s latest work builds on that to offer an older, grimmer world
Sat, Sep 16, 2017
September 16, 2017 02:02 IST
The government guns for development with the bullet train and why it’s time to sharpen those ‘little grey cells’
Sat, Sep 16, 2017
September 09, 2017 00:46 IST
Gauri Lankesh’s assassination is another brazen attempt to bleed the press pen dry
Sat, Sep 09, 2017
September 03, 2017 00:00 IST
The fictional addresses of London have become institutions unto themselves.
Sun, Sep 03, 2017
September 02, 2017 00:05 IST
Rough ride at the courts for gurudom as Gurmeet Singh is convicted of rape, the latest in a list of babas undone by their sex lives
Sat, Sep 02, 2017
August 26, 2017 00:58 IST
Chess champion Garry Kasparov’s unique account of man-machine contests, including that of his clash with IBM’s Deep Blue, and, why he finds machine chess ugly and unsettling.
Sat, Aug 26, 2017
August 20, 2017 03:00 IST
Modern technology has created robots which are smart enough for scientists to fear if they can outsmart humans.
Sun, Aug 20, 2017
August 12, 2017 00:48 IST
Clampdowns on websites that freeze frame the internet and how the Queen can still rock you with her wine routine
Sat, Aug 12, 2017
August 07, 2017 02:06 IST
Bots with creative language skills have seized the popular imagination. They have also rekindled anxieties about a robocalypse
Mon, Aug 07, 2017
August 05, 2017 02:44 IST
The incident at Facebook’s lab does not foreshadow a botmageddon but it freaked out the press, exposing a contradiction at the heart of artificial intelligence research.
Sat, Aug 05, 2017


