A civic leadership incubator programme in Bangalore attempts to teach future political leaders skills of governance. Priyanka Pulla attends a session to find out what it takes to educate a politician
11 February 2014Modern diseases such as asthma, diabetes and Alzheimer’s are linked to changes in the hundred trillion odd microbes residing in our bodies. Excessive hygiene, antibiotics and our diets are to blame for these changes
27 December 2013Why carcinogens are not as scary as made out to be. A review of a book on the dreaded disease by George Johnson, followed by an interview with him
11 November 2013Early-stage research shows that lifestyle changes and certain chemicals can turn back cellular ageing, but the pill of youth is still many years away
30 October 2013GM crops can be developed responsibly, as India’s public sector shows, but are anti-Monsanto activists listening?
21 September 2013Did it really happen? A lesson in how India handles scientific debate
22 May 2013Can this ancient, hidebound system survive the scrutiny of modern medicine?
01 February 2013Several Indians have collected Ig Nobel prizes over the years, awarded for seemingly ridiculous scientific research
01 April 2012What theoretical physics teaches us about the fish and fowl that collectively take our breath away by moving in such elegant formations
23 February 2012CELESTIAL HEROISM IS a bestseller, unless it is badly made. In it merges great survivor dramas and the romance of breaching the boundaries of human…
10 April 2019Pratap Bhanu Mehta is one of India’s most influential columnists and public intellectuals
Brahma Chellaney is a geostrategist and the author of two award-winning books on water: Water, Peace, and War and Water: Asia’s New Battleground
MJ Akbar is the author of, among several titles, Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan. His latest book is Gandhi: A Life in Three Campaigns
Ram Madhav is a member of the National Executive of RSS and a founding member of the governing council of India Foundation. He is the author of, among other titles, Partitioned Freedom and The Hindutva Paradigm