The National Academy of Sciences in India (NASI) and Elsevier, an international publishing firm for scientific literature, have for the past five years, handpicked and ...
12:02 PM, Feb 10, 2012
Some three months ago, my wife, her sister and their parents drove seven odd kilometers from where we live, to register for a Universal Identity ...
04:17 PM, Feb 01, 2012
Network18 organised a blog writing competition to mark the Republic Day on the topic "63rd Republic Day India in 1950 vs 2012". The bloggers had to describe how India has evolved since being declared a Republic in just 500 words. Some of the best have been featured here. The second winner of The Network18 Blog Writing Competition: Jaimon Joseph This December, Jeremy Clarkson of the BBC, flashed an India special...
05:42 PM, Jan 31, 2012
Wonder if you knew about this. YouTube's been running a contest called SPACELAB. Fourteen to eighteen year olds from around the world were asked to ...
04:11 PM, Jan 28, 2012
Was Dr Madhavan Nair guilty of any wrongdoing? I'm neither informed nor qualified enough to comment on that. But should a man who took India ...
11:24 PM, Jan 25, 2012
It's a collection of twenty three different real life stories from different parts of India. The back leaf says they were collected over six years and appeared at different times in a now defunct monthly magazine called Civil Society. Printed by a publisher called Nimby books. The cover's intriguing - a man walking down a suspension bridge as workmen put the finishing touches to it. Below flows a swollen stream...
07:45 PM, Jan 25, 2012
I picked it up because of the cover. Cartoonish. Not as stylish and riotous as the late Mario Miranda's drawings. But similar in theme. In the attention to detail. It didn't tell me much about the stories inside though. The back leaf said the short stories inside were a bit like Malgudi Days. That's the only reason I shoved it into my satchel. Figured I could use some laughter on...
07:14 PM, Jan 25, 2012
The author won't reveal his name. The cover design is more or less disappointing - a bunch of presumably white people walking down a street - for a book that's written about Indians. So, I didn't start 'Scammed' with a lot of enthusiasm. But it turned out to be more or less a page turner. A sort of Chetan Bhagat pot-boiler. But a few notches higher in terms of fresh...
07:39 PM, Jan 24, 2012
Judging by the title - I thought it was some kind of a copy of Slumdog Millionaire. But BIna Shah's a Pakistani writer and that made me curious. Turns out the book's about a Christian girl in a Pakistani slum. I'm Christian myself and that's what finally made me sit down and read the entire thing. I'm quite happy I did. This book isn't a copy of anything. It stands...
06:57 PM, Jan 24, 2012
If you have any interest at all in travelling - buy this book. If you don't have any interest in travel - but have a few hours to kill on a bus or plane or metro - buy this book. It's a lot better than any Chetan Bhagat novel you've ever read, a lot more value for money. And it's got that "thing" which for me separates a good book...
06:52 PM, Jan 24, 2012
This December, Jeremy Clarkson of the BBC, flashed an India special edition of his famous motoring show Top Gear. He drove around a Jaguar sports ...
06:18 PM, Jan 24, 2012
New Delhi: Wikipedia will shut down its operations till Wednesday morning. The online encyclopedia, the world's seventh most popular website, is protesting anti-piracy laws that will be debated next week in the US Congress. SOPA or Stop Online Piracy Act and PIPA or Protect Intellectual Property Act primarily target sites like Pirate Bay, from where people illegally download movies and music. The problem is the laws are so loosely framed,...
07:59 AM, Jan 19, 2012
New Delhi: Facebook and Google, which are facing a lawsuit in India for allegedly hosting offensive content, are fighting back a case that has fired up a debate over Internet censorship in democratic India. And is there a balance that can be struck between the freedom of speech and controlling objectionable content. Petitioner Vinay Rai who filed a criminal complaint in Delhi's Patiala court against twenty networking sites, including Facebook,...
10:11 PM, Jan 17, 2012
Bhubaneswar: In something unique from the Indian Science Congress, a group of students have successfully built a car from scrap. For impressing the girls, if your parents won't buy you a car, you can now build one. "The unique thing about this is that all the parts came together from unconventional places. The tyre is specially manufactured in Pune. The suspension is from a motorcycle. The steering mechanism is from...
09:07 AM, Jan 05, 2012
New Delhi: Kalyanmoy Deb is the winner of the Infosys 2011 Prize for his contribution in engineering and computer science. His unique software helps pick the right solution from millions of confusing choices. Though designed for industrial applications like car and cell phone manufacture, it can theoretically be adapted to much more personal uses. Choices are something we all have to make. Dr Kalyanmoy Deb is someone who helps making ...
08:56 AM, Jan 05, 2012
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