The Truth can never be hidden
What if a cancer drug could remain inactive while travelling through the body and switch on primarily when it reaches a cancer cell? That is the idea behind RK-251, a new experimental…
By Sohail Khan · 20 Aug
On the outer walls of the Chennakeshava temple in Belur, built by the Hoysala kings in the 12th century, stands a woman holding betel leaves. But the tambula or betel appears nowhere…
By Sohail Khan · 20 Aug
The political debate over Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s reference to “dimaagi Naxals”, or “intellectual Naxals”, has quickly acquired the familiar shape of Indian political argument. The remark has been defended by the…
By Sohail Khan · 20 Aug
Anyone waiting for municipal approval of a building plan may wonder why a local body should regulate construction on private land. In the Madras Presidency, such powers were formalised under the Madras…
By Sohail Khan · 20 Aug
India is the second-largest market for Anthropic’s Claude AI by overall usage, but ranks near the bottom globally when that usage is adjusted for the size of its working-age population. The finding…
By Sohail Khan · 20 Aug
On one recent trip, I snapped at my eight-year-old son. What he said to my husband and me a few minutes later took us completely by surprise. And it has been coming…
By Sohail Khan · 20 Aug
Awarapan 2 actor Emraan Hashmi once recalled how Shah Rukh Khan’s six-pack abs in the 2007-film Om Shanti Om’s Dard-e-Disco song led him to hire a trainer. “I never paid attention to…
By Sohail Khan · 20 Aug
India is home to more than 1.4 billion people, thousands of communities, hundreds of languages, and five major language families. Many communities have historically practised endogamy and in some regions, consanguineous marriage.…
By Sohail Khan · 20 Aug
Globally, more than one in 10 adults now live with diabetes. If you have South Asian roots, that risk is even higher, and it hits earlier than it does in many other…
By Sohail Khan · 20 Aug
The Mecca Joint Defence Agreement, concluded on August 7 by Pakistan, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Republic of Türkiye, has been noted by India with due attention. New Delhi is…
By Sohail Khan · 20 Aug