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NY to Mumbai: A math major makes a calculated move into jazz, theatre and cinema

MUMBAI, May 5 -- Ten years ago, Palomi Ghosh left New York for a six-month break in Mumbai. The Vadodara native had just acquired a degree in applied mathematics at North Carolina State University, wi... Read More


A math major makes a calculated move into jazz and theatre

India, May 5 -- Ten years ago, Palomi Ghosh left New York for a six-month break in Mumbai. The Vadodara native had just acquired a degree in applied mathematics at North Carolina State University, and... Read More


Desert prose: A Mughal princess, rebel comes to life

India, April 28 -- For Ruby Lal, the tale begins when she stumbles upon a rare book in a Delhi market, in 1996. It is a 1902 translation of Ahval-e Humayun Badshah, popularly called the Humayun-nama, ... Read More


Desert prose: A rebel Mughal princess comes to life, in a new book

India, April 26 -- For Ruby Lal, the tale begins when she stumbles upon a rare book in a Delhi market, in 1996. It is a 1902 translation of Ahval-e Humayun Badshah, popularly called the Humayun-nama,... Read More


You've got tales: Titles to bookmark this year

India, April 12 -- There's a reason stories survive. They remain the only way to honestly look at ourselves, and each other, and preserve - or alter - what we see. Every conversation is a story we tel... Read More


The making of brave new worlds

India, April 7 -- Our world may look different from the bureaucratic dystopia of George Orwell's 1984, but the book's key themes - totalitarianism, mass surveillance, the manipulation of truth - remai... Read More


1984-letter words: Ripple effects in music, videogames, books and films

India, April 5 -- In 2024, Big Brother is watching, listening, reading DMs, tracking link clicks. He is a pair of eyes that never turns away, but is usually hidden from view. Our world may look diffe... Read More


Caught in the current

India, March 31 -- An artist and an economist walk across a bridge. If that sounds like the start of something, well, it has been. Nobel Prize-winning economist Abhijit Banerjee, 63 (below) and artis... Read More


Caught in the current: Check out Abhijit Banerjee and Sarnath Banerjee's series, Water Wars

India, March 29 -- An artist and an economist walk across a bridge. If that sounds like the start of something, well, it has been. Nobel Prize-winning economist Abhijit Banerjee, 63, and artist and ... Read More


Dock, stock and barrel: Meet the rocket engineer driving a sea change in shipping

India, March 15 -- A return to wind in their sails is out of the question. So how are we to reduce the emissions footprint of the global shipping industry - which accounts for about 90% of the world's... Read More