Life
I Heard The Crows Call For Rain
As scientific tools falter in predicting rain patterns, Indian scientists turn to the Vedas and traditional knowledge for some fine tuning.
Chhetri Brings Rock-star Status To Wizards
The reaction in India to Chhetri’s move to the U.S. has been like what happened in Japan nine years ago when Ichiro Suzuki switched to Major League Baseball
Biopiracy Killer App?
India’s Traditional Knowledge Digital Library believes it has found the silver bullet in the biopiracy wars. Critics say it is aiming at the wrong targets.
Why Should It Be Easy For Them?
Dr Vandana Shiva, ecofeminist activist and head of Navdanya, says traditional knowledge should be in the public domain, not a government monopolized library.
We Have Solved The Problem Of Biopiracy 100 Percent
Dr V. K. Gupta, Director of the Traditional Knowledge Digital Library, explains why the Indian approach to biopiracy has been so effective.
A Light on Dark Matter
What we see comprises just 10 percent of our universe. We know nothing of the remaining 90 percent, except that it exercises gravitational pull on observable objects.
The Secret Life of the American Desi
The ABCD's - American Born Confused Desis - is a subculture expected to become the next batch of medical students, entrepreneurs and cancer-curing researchers for which Indian parents laid the foundation
Red Diapers in the Land of Red Chillies
Why America’s political thinkers and their ideas don’t travel very well.
Cosmic Parallels
Radical, new cosmological theories of multiverses, oscillating universe and the Big Bang have eerie parallels in Vedic cosmology.
The Itch To Stitch
Tailoring businesses like Raja Fashions and Mohan’s Custom Tailors outsourced long before outsourcing was cool.
Sabeer Bhatia Reboots
Rather than creating new products that would require companies to change or alter their way of operating, all these companies do the same thing at much lower costs.
Inner-City Yoga
Shake hard and harder…. Thrust and move.… Stick it in now. Com’on faster and faster….
Hello, My Name Is
When your child has an Indian mother and a French papa, the subject of a suitable name is a cultural and linguistic minefield.
Retirement: An Iconic Struggle
I watched with young and startled eyes as my grandfather stormed into my house, gave my quiet father a mouthful and stormed away. It was the first time I witnessed a big deal being made about retirement.
India's Software Industry Reboots
The software product segment constitutes under 3 percent of India's $52 billion IT sector. But that may be about to change.
The Enigma Of Brevity
Everything in life is marked or characterized by brevity. Childhood passes, youth is short-lived. Joys don't last; sorrows too fade away.
The Rediscovery Of The Kamasutra
Kamasutra is not a book on positions in sexual intercourse. It is a book about the art of living -- about finding a partner, maintaining power in marriage, committing adultery, living as or with a courtesan, using drugs -- and also about the positions in sexual intercourse.
Is There A Doctor On The Race Course
When a healthcare temp agency contacted me saying they were looking for a doctor for a horse race my interest was aroused.
Luxury Retirement Homes
India’s seniors finding themselves in the uncharted territory
I’m Here, Mom
I understand the game we’re playing. It’s how we keep from talking about the present, trading stories about when I was 10 years old and she was still whole.
