US, Nov. 9 -- As a young chemistry student in India, and later as a doctoral researcher in organic chemistry at the Indian Institute of Science in Bengaluru, I regarded Nobel laureates as near-gods. I... Read More
New Delhi, Nov. 5 -- In India, arguments about food rarely stay about food. Vegetarianism is bound up with faith, family and region, and newer imported camps have added their own certainty. Strict veg... Read More
New Delhi, Oct. 23 -- In August, I argued in The Friday Times that the real split between India and Pakistan after 1947 had little to do with culture or talent. It came down to one question: who contr... Read More
New Delhi, Oct. 14 -- India does not lack brilliant engineers. It lacks the products that carry their brilliance to the world. Not one of the technologies that define modern life, the iPhone, Nvidia's... Read More
New Delhi, Oct. 10 -- When flydubai flight FZ1073 began plunging toward the Arabian desert on September 30, the person standing between 174 people and the catastrophe was an Indian captain lying on th... Read More
New Delhi, Sept. 2 -- When India and Pakistan emerged as sovereign states in 1947, both inherited the exact same imperial state machinery, legal codes, and administrative infrastructure. Pakistan took... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 16 -- The Delhi Gymkhana Club's fight with the Union government has now missed three hearing dates, pushed to September 3 after the government's reply reached the club's lawyers only t... Read More