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August 15 carries a rare resonance in Asia. This year, India marked 79 years of freedom from British rule, and South Korea 81 years of liberation from Japanese rule — different journeys,…
By Sohail Khan · 2 Sep
When Ram Charan and Upasana Konidela started dating, the latter put the Telugu actor through a difficult test to prove his love for her. Speaking about the same, Konidela recalled how she…
By Sohail Khan · 2 Sep
By Irfanullah Farooqi and Suraj Gogoi Jason Arday’s death has raised pertinent questions about academic excellence and integrity, institutional practices pertaining to diversity and inclusion, and criticism in general. A sociologist of…
By Sohail Khan · 2 Sep
You’ve probably seen it in pictures or videos, or maybe even in real life: an Indian cobra lifts the front of its body, spreads its hood and suddenly looks much more intimidating.…
By Sohail Khan · 2 Sep
NASA on Sunday (August 30) launched a powerful, next-generation space telescope that can search for clues for some of the universe’s deepest mysteries, including mysterious phenomena such as dark matter and dark…
By Sohail Khan · 2 Sep
For decades, India worried about population explosion. Every Census brought alarming headlines. There were Five-Year Plans, family-planning programmes, red triangles, slogans and seminars on population stabilisation. Demographers warned us that Indians were…
By Sohail Khan · 2 Sep
In his Pulitzer Prize-winning Anti-Intellectualism in American Life (1963), historian Richard Hofstadter traces a suspicion of the expert to a populist strain that equated learning with elitism and plain speech with virtue.…
By Sohail Khan · 2 Sep
People go to great lengths to stay on track with their diet and fitness goals. So does Sara Ali Khan. Her Metro In Dino co-star Aditya Roy Kapur revealed what’s inside her…
By Sohail Khan · 2 Sep
Imagine a classroom where you are given the space to explore and understand concepts on your own with the guidance of a teacher and the internet. Imagine the amount of knowledge which…
By Sohail Khan · 2 Sep
A holiday is usually associated with comfort: a better hotel, good food, convenient transport, and a break from the demands of everyday life. But a new, tongue-in-cheek travel idea circulating online suggests…
By Sohail Khan · 2 Sep