I'm no artist, nor a scholar of art. I can't analyse images to pick out patterns. Heck, I think an image is well-crafted only because those commentators I trust have said it. My admiration of…

I received an email from a fellow journalist last week with the following subject: Banks wont recover even half of the Rs 4,000,000,000,000 bad loans of 37 companies That number with all those zeroe…

It had to come to this at some point, and here we are finally. To undertake a challenge to write one blog post a day – when I've mentioned to my friends and colleagues that I'm doing this, al…

There's a report in Science dated June 8 with the headline 'Middleweight black holes found at last'. The abstract describes an effort by an "international team" of astronomers to…

There were two developments in the news last week that were very important but at the same time didn't get mainstream attention: Microsoft acquiring GitHub and the LHC collaboration's measurem…

Until a few hours ago, I thought Harry S. Truman had been one of the worst-performing American presidents of all time. I was wrong. I'd spotted an infographic on Twitter, drawn up by FiveThirtyEig…

Whenever I think of world-building – as in the fantasy exercise where you build out the lay of the land, and then the land itself where you're going to situate your story – the first thing that co…

In the morning, I had managed to read a few pages of Karunanidhi: A Life in Politics, a new book by Sandhya Ravishankar about the DMK supremo, and noticed that even though it's a journalist's…

On average, people don't read as many books as they used to before because what we want to read has become available in more forms. We read articles on the web, tweets and posts on the social medi…

The National Council of Science and Technology Communication, under the Department of Science and Technology (DST), has floated a new initiative to promote science communication by researchers, partic…

Puja Mehra wrote an excellent breakdown of the Narendra Modi government's economic performance of the last four years, the duration for which it has been in office. You should read it if you'r…

I got myself a new phone today – the iPhone 6S. Before the purchase, I had spent hours on Amazon looking for the right phone within my budget, and quite possibly went through at least two score models…