Life
Well-Educated Raju Hermon Feels Raped by the Internet
"I feel like I have been robbed of everything, including my identity.... I am not seeking fame or notoriety.... I just want my life back."Why Do India and Pakistan See America in Opposite Ways
"Give me a name, America, make of me a Buzz or Chip or Spike. Bathe me in amnesia and clothe me in your powerful unknowing."
India’s Beauty Brigade
From Sushmita Sen in the early 1990s to the latest 2011 winners, daughters of the Armed Forces seem to dominate Indian beauty pageants.
Wooing the Next Generation of Indian Academics
India has seen a huge emphasis on investment in education in recent years.
The End Of Everything
Our universe will end without a doubt and no underground bunker will be safe. But relax, the end time is billions or even trillions of years away.
Searching For India
Wikipedia, the CIA and the U.S. State Department are the principal sources for a majority of people searching for information about India on the Web.
A World Of Worlds
Fractal patterns have no beginning and end. The whole exists in parts and a part exists in the whole. The universe is in you and you are in the universe.
The Mystery Of The Ghost Particles
The most abundant fundamental particles are paradoxically the most elusive.
Nalanda The World’s First University
Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen reflects on Nalanda University’s contribution to propagating knowledge and understanding in ancient India.
Freedom To Die
A writ petition against the Jain practice of fasting-unto-death could finally force the Indian judiciary’s hand on the legality of religious suicides.
The Genesis Of Genesis
The Big Bang is bound to happen again and again creating new universes and recycling old ones.
Other Worlds
Our ceaseless search for other worlds centers on exoplanets, some of which might be tuned for life similar to our own.
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.
