Figuring Things Out

  If there is one word you would catch from the numerous clips from the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war, it is "Dawai!" Even though it ...

  I have been a fan of Bill Bryson for many years now. Starting with "A Short History of Nearly Everything" (2003), I have tried t...

  I guess it does not take much of marketing to sell a fish that evokes images of kisses, mountain streams and rainbows.  The rainbow trout,...

At first glance Sanjoy Hazarika's book may seem rather dated. It gives a snapshot of the North Eastern states up to the early 1990s.  Mu...

   Jantar Mantar is one of the iconic monuments of Delhi. It figures in almost every representational image of the city skyline alongside th...

  If you are curious about something but nobody is willing to tell you, what do you do? Recently, BBC reported on an interesting method of ...

  Last Sunday I got a big scare - one of my newest external hard disk drives (HDD) let out a few scratchy noises and suddenly stopped work...