Pratik Kanjilal
The writer is Associate Editor.
Articles By Pratik Kanjilal
Change is in the air, on air
The state election results have mellowed TV warriors. So, is it the end of the prizefighting era?
Stranger than fiction
Author Yuval Noah Harari discusses humanity’s fictions about matters as diverse as revolution and the possibility of a dystopic world without women
Crystal clear
The theoretical physicist who wandered into chemistry and learned crystallography to answer one of biology’s oldest questions
Speakeasy: Up in the Air
Two stories tell us something about the future of flying
The Table is Set
An informed account of the periodic table, and how chemistry relates to the world around and within us
Breaking Down News: Two Sides of a Coin
While the Kartarpur pilgrim route between India and Pakistan leads to a political spin in the media, CNN is fact-checking the White House.
Breaking Down News: Fight Club
The farce that defines TV debates lives on while the Twitter CEO’s attempts to smash ‘Brahmanical patriarchy’ get drowned in outrage.
No Easy Answers
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
Speakeasy: As He Saw It
Robert Baden-Powell’s accounts of his life in India are marked by a blistering honesty.
Breaking Down News: Gift of the Gab
When narratives of hate violence go unnoticed on social media platforms
A singular mind
Exploring the remarkable life and work of physicist Stephen Hawking who dared to look upon the universe
Breaking Down News: Time to cut the cord
How the theatre of the absurd plays out around temples and on television screens
Long Before the Day After
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.
In the line of fire
Khashoggi’s killing threatens to upset the global order, in India the top news still concerns gender
Home Truths
The #MeToo wave has swept away India’s most known comedy group and created a new, potent platform of protest.
Book review of Warlight: The Kindness of Strangers
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.
Speakeasy: Science, Foretold
The tremendous oracular value of science fiction. It has had tremendous oracular value, but unfortunately, science fiction's most popular works predict dystopias.
Finger on the Buzzer
The quiz element is comparatively small in comparison to the informational material, making up about a third of the book.
The State Will Not Hold
POTUS attempts to defend Brett Kavanaugh, farmers are forcibly stopped from entering Delhi and logic leaks out from fuel price regulation policies.
Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Darwin in a test tube – how evolution can be directed to bring benefits
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”.
