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Monday, 20 May 2013

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The hilarious case of Avatar Tulsi

The Ramayana essay that Delhi University banned

The man who survived 42 hours trapped in a lift

The hypocrisy of Indian fashion designers

The fraud of Vedic maths

The making of Baba Ramdev

The mystery of the leopard that was not

under energy

Indian Gas Pricing: Still as Hazy as Ever

Private producers want to price it high, users want it kept cheap, and policymakers appear all confused

16 May 2013 | BY Shailendra Tyagi

Snapping a Crude Link

America’s gas renaissance could spell cheaper gas for energy-starved economies even in Asia

3 Dec 2012 | BY Shailendra Tyagi

Let Us Give This Peace Pipe a Chance

As America’s energy anxieties ease, India may get a realistic chance to address its own

23 Nov 2012 | BY Aresh Shirali

Big Indian Ideas

Like them or not, the brainwaves that no citizen can ignore

1 Apr 2012

Practice Makes More Perfect

A study shows those who continue practising tasks after mastering them exert less energy to achieve more

16 Feb 2012

The Raw and the Cooked

Human evolution may have gained much from the extra energy cooking made available

11 Nov 2011 | BY Hartosh Singh Bal

The Revolution’s New Leaf

With a little help from the Tata Group, man has managed to replicate photosynthesis in a lab.

1 Jun 2011 | BY Hartosh Singh Bal

Strange Love

The Indian Government has completely smothered the rights of its citizens in the interests of the nuclear industry

11 May 2011

Lights off… but Why?

We’re being told to save the world by switching off power for an hour, but, er, don’t most parts of India do this for hours every day anyway?

15 Oct 2009 | BY Manju Sara Rajan

Ray of Hope

Manmohan Singh’s target of generating 20 gigawatts of solar power in the country by 2020 ranks right on top

6 Aug 2009

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Rape at Home

The trial of a French Consulate employee, accused of raping his minor daughter, has begun in Bangalore. His wife Suja Jones speaks to Open

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The Man Who is Afraid of a Skullcap

Two books on Narendra Modi establish why it is silly to hope that the bigot will ever be any less bigoted

Hartosh Singh Bal

Waiting for Deliverance

What families in Haryana will do to have a son. A witness’ account

Ruhani Kaur

IN Lounge > Arts

REPURPOSED, UNFINISHED: As the performance progresses, Chopra transforms from an austere figure standing out in white against the bare concrete walls of an unused space in a half-empty mall to a dark shadow, blackened and enervated by the labour of recreating a remembered Saket (BLACKENING V, 2013/KIRAN NADAR MUSEUM OF ART | PHOTOS: SAHEJ RAHAL/COSTUME: LOIS BRAGANZA)

Inside Out Artist

Nikhil Chopra redraws history in performance

BY Divya Saxena

IN Lounge > Books

Selasi’s storytelling only bears fruit when you allow yourself to be rocked by the sometimes choppy wave motion of her prose—gushes, pull-backs, slowly building undercurrents—and surrender to the way she plays fast and loose with punctuation and sentence-structure.

Nothing Lush, Soft or Verdant

Taiye Selasi’s first novel runs circles around the ‘African story’ you’re used to

BY Devika Bakshi

IN Lounge > Cinema

That’s the thing about Mithun. He is not ‘cool’ like the English-speaking Amitabh.(Photo: DINODIA)

The Poor Man’s Pop Star

For years, Mithun Chakraborty has been a victim of elite prejudice—what multiplex goers call a ‘downmarket’ star.

BY Shaikh Ayaz

IN Lounge > Science

The study can perhaps also explain why individuals prefer one piece of music over another.

The Seduction of Music

Listening to what you like activates a part of your brain linked with good food and sex

IN Lounge > Www

The time it took to try cheating, by altering the ‘settings’, is enough to make one consider the consequences of doing so and decide against it.

Addicted to the Net?

If you are wasting too much time on ‘interesting’ sites, let this browser manage your time.

BY Avinash Subramaniam

Public Opinion
The Unreliable Source

The second rung of the Congress party, where there is much jostling for power, is the origin of some of the most ridiculous political spin in recent times

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On the Contrary
The All-Seeing Eye

What cases of police personnel getting caught on camera hitting women say about a welcome new world in the making

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ARM’S LENGTH
That Fizzling Sound

As cola drinks are shunned by health junkies

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THROWAWAY
The Bungle Jumble Party

God’s gift to the Congress

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RELOAD
Eternal Tales in The Electronic Age

The first act of Amar Chitra Katha’s rescue is over. The brand has survived. But Act Two will be tricky

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Doosra
The Khan Who Couldn’t

Nawaz Sharif’s party won a near majority in Pakistan’s National Assembly. But it was Imran Khan’s campaign that animated the polls

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HAZARD
Poison in Paradise

How burning garbage and indiscriminate quarrying on the coast could spell the death of the Andaman Islands

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True Life
Just Another Massacre

Sinam Ongbi Chandrajini lost children in a massacre in Malom in 2000. It was the horror of this incident that led Irom Sharmila to begin her fast against AFSPA

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WHISTLE BLOW
Collateral Clean-Up

It may not entirely be a sense of duty that is motivating CBI Director Ranjit Sinha

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COOL-OFF
Inside Scoop

The joys of artisanal ice-cream

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Outrage
Case No. 1

Azad Khan, 12, was shot in Manipur, allegedly for being an insurgent. This was one of six extra judicial killings

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Divine
The Devil in a God-fearing Home

The parents of S Sreesanth, a devout couple, might be thinking even god can't help their son now.

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