Tolerance is a Key Virtue

A silhouette of that French Gadfly of Reason, Voltaire, serves as an emblem for the new art of the enlightenment exhibition in the recently refurbished National Museum in Beijing. The work, which is a.. Read full story

Follow the Moth-trek

“You don’t get anywhere by chasing stars,” says the father of the moth in James Thurber’s Fables for Our Time. Moth Junior aspires to fly up to a star and keeps trying to re.. Read full story

Of mice and men

It was a huge come-down for post-docs researching into biological roots of longevity. Here they were chugging along nicely in a top-flight lab, expecting to uncover Nobelworthy discoveries. Then ca.. Read full story

Survival of the Sickest

A chance meeting with a neuro-psychiatrist in a bistro changed your columnist’s perspective on health and disease forever. Up until then, he had looked upon disease only as a bane. But what i.. Read full story

Half-Way to euthanasia

Euthanasia was illegal in India when Sanjay Leela Bhansali made Guzaarish with Hrithik Roshan and Aishwarya Rai in the lead. Active mercy killing is still out of legal bounds. But the position on c.. Read full story

Turn loss into gain

The little finger is called Anamika thanks to the unfazed genius of the Sanskrit poet. He allegedly ran out of epithets while naming the fingers on his palm. That’s how the little digit came to .. Read full story

Turn loss into gain

The little finger is called Anamika thanks to the unfazed genius of the Sanskrit poet. He allegedly ran out of epithets while naming the fingers on his palm. That’s how the little digit came to .. Read full story

Holy finger, hand divine

Our ancestors came from outer space. And the chariots these gods used were fiery meteorites, says a Nasa boffin who claims to have discovered fossilised remains of ET in extremely remote corners of ea.. Read full story

Form = Emptiness

Agatha Christie wrote a whodunit called The Moving Finger. The jacket had a finger pointing out one suspect after another. That’s how the Miss Marple mystery unfolds chapter by chapter for .. Read full story

Form = Emptiness

Agatha Christie wrote a whodunit called The Moving Finger. The jacket had a finger pointing out one suspect after another. That’s how the Miss Marple mystery unfolds chapter by chapter for .. Read full story