Unjust and inaccurate?
Popular cinema, Hollywood and Bollywood, should be sensitive and truthful while portraying wild animals
Virtual war
Wikipedia becomes target of anonymous edits against Russia Wikipedia>>Politics>>Russia/Ukraine
How rural India spends
Contrary to general perception, rural people in India are spending more on commodities that are considered major urban expenditure
Savage people
Human zoos were aids to anthropologists, scientists and racial theorists in 19th century
Significance of CERN
Books>> Smashing Physics • by Jon Butterworth • Headline Press • Rs 700 (Kindle edition) and The Particle At The End Of The …
A doctor at the pole
Book>> Empire Antarctica: Ice, Silence & Emperor Penguins • by Gavin Francis • Allen Lane • Rs 1,200
Machines, not humans, still define civilisation
The notion that science and technology are the indicators of a nation's development has helped establish white superiority through the ages and …
Marking time
El Nio, the warm ocean current in the South Pacific can do the incredible, it can slow down the rotation of the Earth
Parched lands
The frequency of droughts has made even traditionally water-rich regions fall under the spectre of death
A mistake of judgment
Pioneering though the work has been, judicial activism has restricted the growth of a responsible and independent bureaucracy
Wings to soar high
A counselling initiative in Madhya Pradesh identifies interests of tribal students and facilitates their admission to institutes of higher education
Life beyond Earth
Book>> Five Hundred Billion Years Of Solitude • by Lee Billings • Penguin • Rs 799
Baltic Sea low on oxygen
Anthropogenic activities are reducing oxygen in the Baltic Sea, harming the marine ecosystem
Born with a map
Chinook salmons have an innate sense of direction, based on the earth’s magnetic field
Fight for biosimilars
Roche’s injunction against Biocon’s breast cancer drug signals the tough road ahead
Nano carriers
Nanoparticles which help deliver curcumin, a natural compound with potential to cure Alzheimer’s, to rat brain have been created
The dying kitchen story
Book>> Cooked: A Natural History Of Transformation • by Michael Pollan • Penguin • Rs 1,400
Discovery of contemporary India
Book>> Churning The Earth: The Making Of Global India• Aseem Shrivastava and Ashish Kothari • Penguin Viking, 2012 • Rs 699
Humanity's puzzling past
The 4.5 million year blind leap from "almost human" to Homo sapiens continues to baffle palaeontologists, but 2 new finds offer a new …
The wheeze squeeze
Asthma is silently strangulating humankind, and controlling air pollution could be the most effective way of combating it
Is the Tehri dam safe?
A crack has appeared on the mountainface forming part of the Tehri dam reservoir. Will such cracks effect the dam project in case of seismic …
EDRIVEN
Electric and hybrid vehicles are gaining a foothold because they are cheap and clean. But batteries are either expensive or short-lived. Their …
Why the budget must focus on rural India
India is staring at a rural economic crisis. If the budget does not spend on rural India, the nation’s growth will be badly impacted
Kitchen gadgets
Book>> Consider The Fork • By Bee Wilson • Basic Books • Rs 500
An uncelebrated genius
Book>> Plague And Cholera • by Patrick Deville • Little Brown • US $17