July 16,2000 00:00:00 AM
With the unfolding of the pattern in human genes, the stage is set for a scientific mutation. An irreversible start has been made towards ...
July 15,2000 00:00:00 AM
May 14,2000 00:00:00 AM
Some time during my middle-school days, I got hooked on to astronomy. The attraction of the world of heavenly bodies was so irresistible t...
May 13,2000 00:00:00 AM
April 23,2000 00:00:00 AM
Gandhi was not God.'' It doesn't actually take a Kamal Hasan to declare this. But we haven't had many like the one who has dared say this,...
April 21,2000 00:00:00 AM
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April 18,2000 00:00:00 AM
NAGPUR, APRIL 17: Aksharam Brahma Paramam, says the Geeta. Taking these as words of God, literally and spiritually, a retired school teach...
March 17,2000 00:00:00 AM
The dispute over Deepa Mehta's film is just one of the kind we will have to endure till we come to terms with the reality that we are a na...
January 03,2000 00:00:00 AM
NAGPUR, JAN 2: He can't walk and can barely speak. Death may come calling on him at any time, say the doctors. But he survives. To make th...
December 14,1999 00:00:00 AM
A recent report about a certain Gururaj Deshpande becoming the richest Indian in the world is, for me, more than mere news. Why? That shou...
September 15,1998 00:00:00 AM
What will become of the common man?" The poser perhaps figures more commonly than the one in whose behalf it is put. While it is bey...
June 26,1997 00:00:00 AM
While Vidarbha is in the news for its aspired Statehood, one issue on which the economy of the entire area hinges has been relegated to the...
May 09,1997 00:00:00 AM
ENERGYLESS PUMP: Byrne with a rope-and-washer pump. APPROPRIATE CHOICE: Philip Byrne. In a world where the giant wheel of technology is...