Figuring Things Out

  It was good to return to the Brahma temple in downtown Bangkok after a few years. I missed a few shrubs and trees that once stood in the a...

  What did Vasily Vereshchagin  see in Ellora? Vasily was a Russian realist painter who travelled across India during the 1800s and left us ...

This must be one of the most beautiful sculptures I have seen of Anantha-shayana - Vishnu reclining on the 'endless' serpent, Ananth...

If there is any place that completely defies expectations it must be Ajanta. We grow up reading about this place in our school textbooks, it...

Lighting changes everything.  Last week I visited the Indian Museum in Kolkata after more than a decade, and I was struck by the way in whic...

 Call it a calculated conspiracy of algorithms but over the last week I watched two 'recommended' TED videos, each dealing with with...

Travelling means different things to different people. To me, one of the most interesting things about travelling is the clash betw...

There is lies, damn lies and statistics . And then there is Prof. Hans Rosling . Rosling was Swedish specialist in Global Health, and a ...

How does one pronounce the name "Wacziarg"? Three days ago, I noticed this name for the first time in an obituary. Francis Wac...

  Thanks to today's unusual doodle , here is the remarkable story of a Dutch lady who loved to draw insects and flow...

I finally got around to seeing Lincoln yesterday at the US Cultural Center in Delhi.  The screening had not been publicized - there wa...

Pic source: Getty Images from Daily Mail The new year has started with an interesting headline in the Western media - "China...

. A few links to the fascinating collection of photographs crafted by Henri Cartier-Bresson , and to the surrealist painters who inspired h...