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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


Thinning out, not cooling off

India, March 3 -- For over two centuries, the spectre of overpopulation has haunted global debates about food security, sustainability and the environment. Back in 1798, English economist and scholar ... Read More


A Muggle breaks a spell: The remarkable tale of Harry Potter stuntsman David Holmes

India, Feb. 17 -- It still feels strange to him to think back on the day it happened; a day of normalcy simply taken for granted. David Holmes was 25, and had arrived for work at the Warner Bros stud... Read More


Without harmony, we are nothing: Zakir Hussain wins 3 Grammy awards

India, Feb. 5 -- Tabla maestro Zakir Hussain made history at the Grammy Awards on Monday, becoming the first Indian to win three of these trophies in a single night. The 72-year-old was among the win... Read More


Prestigious global opera competition comes to Mumbai this September

Mumbai, Feb. 5 -- Operalia-one of the world's biggest opera singing competitions-is coming to Mumbai's National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) this September. Founded by world-famous Spanish te... Read More