The makers of many images

Our ideas about our abode and ourselves in the universe have been taking a battering for a while now. In the beginning the ancient view was a geocentric model where the earth was a fixed point of refe.. Read full story

The makers of many images

Our ideas about our abode and ourselves in the universe have been taking a battering for a while now. In the beginning the ancient view was a geocentric model where the earth was a fixed point of refe.. Read full story

Forgive, but don't forget

Primo Levi survived the Auschwitz Concentration Camp in Nazi-occupied Poland.

For the rest of his life, the Italian writer, who was also an expert chemist, was haunted by the ord.. Read full story

Free versus fair choice

The presence of good has been likened to a match struck in a dark windowless room.

No matter how much darkness is trapped within the walls, it is annihilated the moment the match.. Read full story

Finding unity finally in deceit

At first sight it seems religion could have nothing in common with science because they're so separate in context, meaning and purpose.

Religion relies on belief and reverence for a supernat.. Read full story

Power of words, said and unsaid

Progress to 'victory over oneself' also necessitates right and proper speech.

In this lies that uncanny power for good living.

The well-known actress, Jane Fo.. Read full story

What makes the future tense?

Most living organisms possess a biological clock with rhythms regulated in episodic cycles adjusted to events in the external environment.

These could be alternate periods of da.. Read full story

Happiness as growth index

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?", Shakespeare asks in an immortal line.

What if the Bard of Avon had been born in Bhutan? Would he have switched to 'a monsoon's day'.. Read full story

Going gaga over yoga

Reverend Albert Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, confesses to being an unlikely 'folk hero in India' on Twitter: Who knew (this would happen), he writes with rhetoric.. Read full story

Like,its a tough call

The story till now: Cinderella was so enchanted by the prince and overwhelmed by all the trappings of the grand ball that it was only when the clock was about to strike 12,she remembered her fairy .. Read full story