Figuring Things Out

The movie has got rave reviews but I've just not been able to figure it out. A farmer-cum-test-pilot leaves his dusty home,...

* On Credit: Lecture by Raghuram Rajan @IRMA - http://rbi.org.in/scripts/BS_SpeechesView.aspx?Id=929 * A runner with Multiple Sclerosis ...

Rapeseed / Canola (pic- Wiki ) Earlier this year, India's edible oil imports hit a record high. It has cost us over Rs. 60,000...

 (ADHM 2014 - pic - BS ) "Chin-up!! Just 300 meters to go!"  Music to my ears. This was one of the best things I heard ...

A recent article in the EPW, titled " GM Crops and Global Trade " points out that - "one company controls two-thirds o...

For once, I was glad to read a bureaucrat's memoir. All the more so because I had seen the man in action between 2005-2008, and nev...

* Questions to ask about Art - http://scroll.in/article/685177/Three-questions-not-to-ask-about-art-%E2%80%93-and-four-to-ask-instead * 1...

Every time you see the Modern Times, you notice something new. Who, for instance, designed this neat poster for the "funniest mov...

This Friday will see the emergence of a new bank backed by China - the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB). The Americans are not ...

An excellent article explaining the work of this year's Nobel Prize winner in Economics - Jean Triole. Cassidy, John (2014): WHY JEA...

Yesterday, I saw the movie "Haider". I liked it. For the first time Bollywood seems to have made an attempt to present a ba...

Another corruption scandal has come to light. Once again it is a foreign court that informs us that bribes were paid to Indian officials fo...

An interesting article on ageing: " Why I hope to Die at 75 ". ---------------------------------------------------------- ...

A Drug & a Hairy Woman -- https://in.finance.yahoo.com/news/doctors-chance-appointment-hairy-woman-215500968.html Medical Devices - D...

George Orwell's "Homage to Catalonia" (1938) is an interesting read. For a book written before WW-2, it has a very conte...

The 'Jaipur Foot' looks so far away... An amazing video on the latest bionic limbs -

It has been an unusual combination of summer and monsoon this year. The dry heat lasted for a lot longer in May-June, and then, after a fe...

Last year, India set a new record in wheat production -- 95.85 million tonnes. This took the total food-grain production in the country to ...

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...

Drugs based on antibodies have been in use for a long time now. So far, almost all these antibody-based drugs have been derived from anima...