Figuring Things Out

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

"There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen"--Vladimir Ilyich Lenin What has been happening...

A random quote on social media leads you to a book, and then some thoughts in the book hit you deep inside. This happens to me quite often -...

About 16 years ago, while rummaging through the second-hand book market at Daryaganj, Delhi, I had picked up a biography simply out of cur...

A peaceful, painless death is one of life's greatest blessings. Atul Gawande's latest book is born out of experiences with th...

In one of my favorite passages in the Mahabharata, the great sage Brihadaswa stops by to visit the hermitage of the Pandavas, within a few...

"How do you engage the middle class on broader issues of society, issues that do beyond its own self interests?" This is a ques...