Figuring Things Out

The Banyan Tree, Okhla Bird Park "6 AM at the Banyan tree..." For folks on DelhiBird this simply indicates a well known...

The Planning Commission  (PC) of India is in the news again for all the wrong reasons. This time an RTI enquiry has revealed that PC ha...

Until recently the Indian Express was my favourite newspaper. Unlike the leading "best-selling" newspapers like HT or ToI, it ac...

* Hill, David (2012): 8,200+ Strong, Researchers Band Together To Force Science Journals To Open Access , URL - http://singularityhub.co...

What on earth is "valorization of expediency"?? I always look forward to reading OpEd articles by Bhanu Pratap Mehta . In his ...

How many birds can be spotted on a Delhi summer morning? White-throated Kingfisher ( Halcyon smyrensis ) Indian Robin Ros...

. India has always defied conventional definitions of a Nation-State. Accoording to Max Weber ( Politics as a Vocation ), a State is a ...

. What was the big fuss about a 60-year-old cartoon being published in a school textbook? This illustration by Shankar had led, not ...

Today, after a gap of nearly twenty years, I found myself inside the Indian Parliament building. While walking along the pillared, circu...

. Under Budget 2012, the Finance Ministry has allocated Rs.17.58 billion for enrolling 400 million more people into India's Unique Ide...

A Nilgai  (Litt. 'Blue-Cow'-  Boselaphus tragocamelus )  has been foraging in our neighborhood for the past few week. Every time I...

Starting today passengers at Delhi airport will see a  346% rise in 'tax' in the form of User Development Fees (UDF). Who exactly ...

Which is this mosquito that landed on my CD after a happy-meal? Over the past two weeks there has been a spike in the mosquito popula...

Random posts that grabbed my attention: India Design Forum  - Design Within Reach - http://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2012/03/ind...

Mention the word "Daruma" in Japan and you are quite likely to see faces light up with smiles. Children would instantly recal...

In a recent article, M. Sabarwal pointed out that the recent surge of  worker-strikes in the Indian manufacturing industry (Orient Craft, ...

"Welcome to Thebes" was one of the most unusual play I have seen at the National School of Drama in New Delhi. Directed by A...

. This month, Western Japan-experts have been out in full force, debating Japan's perception of itself. The debate was set off by an a...

"Although Indians blame ideology (and sometimes democracy) for their failings, the truth is that a mundane inability to implement pol...

In the s paghetti bowl of international trade agreements, India's plate seems to be garnised very 'comprehensively'. We have...