![Suresh Menon]( "Suresh Menon")
Cricket's most enduring - and endearing - statistic is 99.94, the average that Don Bradman finished with. There is something charming about that figure, a ...
01:22 PM, Dec 05, 2011
![Jhinuk Sen]( "Jhinuk Sen")
It will be 2012 in a few weeks and we can all wait for 'The Dark Knight Rises' and if the stories are correct - ...
05:56 PM, Dec 02, 2011
![Tathagata Bhattacharya]( "Tathagata Bhattacharya")
The Parliament has been adjourned for the 9th day in a row; the notional loss to the country's exchequer touches the Rs 36 crore mark. ...
04:05 PM, Dec 02, 2011
![Nadim Asrar]( "Nadim Asrar")
It's my favourite story from the Sainik School Tilaiya days. It was around 2 am on a cold December night in 1989. The asbestos roof ...
03:35 PM, Nov 16, 2011
![Sriram Balasubramanian]( "Sriram Balasubramanian")
The euphoria over 11/11/11 had engulfed most of our imagination. The unique date led to a massive hype across the world including India. On the ...
01:04 PM, Nov 13, 2011
![Ananthapriya Subramanian]( "Ananthapriya Subramanian")
"We want a school. Our children just sit around all day with nothing to do." Adamai implored the small group of visitors to the small ...
10:22 PM, Nov 01, 2011
![Rajdeep Sardesai]( "Rajdeep Sardesai")
At a time when Mayawati's Dalit memorials have sparked off a raging debate, it might be instructive to consider what the original Dalit icon, Dr ...
12:20 AM, Oct 21, 2011
![Trupti Rane]( "Trupti Rane")
What will you do if you see a man on fire? Will you save him or will you just keep the camera rolling? I was ...
04:39 PM, Oct 14, 2011
![Tanuj Khosla]( "Tanuj Khosla")
"I disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it" - Voltaire The very foundation of ...
06:19 PM, Oct 13, 2011
![Dhananjay Khadilkar]( "Dhananjay Khadilkar")
It's official. Sebastian Vettel is the 2011 world champion. Of course, the outcome of this year's championship was known much earlier. The last couple of ...
01:34 PM, Oct 10, 2011
![Tanuj Khosla]( "Tanuj Khosla")
Apart from being the toughest place to get into, the IITs are probably the most talked about technical institutes by the citizens in any country. ...
03:27 PM, Oct 07, 2011
![Mike Sangma]( "Mike Sangma")
2006, May 24th, Shillong, Meghalaya: The early summer rain drizzled outside the Shillong's State Central Library auditorium. As I sat inside, Lou Majaw, (aka ...
12:36 PM, Oct 07, 2011
![Dr Ramanan Laxminarayan]( "Dr Ramanan Laxminarayan")
New data presented at the 1st Global Forum on Bacterial Infections in New Delhi this week showed that bacteria carrying the NDM-1 gene have been ...
05:06 PM, Oct 05, 2011
![Amrita Tripathi]( "Amrita Tripathi")
What is it about literary festivals? The thought of one can drive some people into rhapsodies, or have others pull their hair out, and that's ...
01:19 PM, Oct 05, 2011
![Deepa Balakrishnan]( "Deepa Balakrishnan")
'Grooming' them right After a hectic fortnight of politics and another hectic fortnight of Anna Hazare's fast-protest, Heggadadevanakote was heaven on earth. A little ...
01:09 PM, Sep 27, 2011
![Asiya Islam]( "Asiya Islam")
One would think that the focal point of any university and the experience of being at university is the institution's library. Not for students of ...
07:29 PM, Sep 26, 2011
![Rajdeep Sardesai]( "Rajdeep Sardesai")
"Why don't you cover Irom Sharmila's decade-old fast with the same intensity as you did Anna Hazare's 13-day fast?" asked Binalakshmi Nepram, the founder of ...
12:02 AM, Sep 09, 2011
![Sriram Balasubramanian]( "Sriram Balasubramanian")
Independence Day for our great nation is an opportunity and a moment to cherish. It is a moment to embrace the diversity and uniqueness of ...
09:07 AM, Aug 15, 2011
![Preeti Singh]( "Preeti Singh")
With scams in the last few months regularly throwing up numbers of not less than a 100 crores, we as an alert audience have tuned ...
08:11 PM, Aug 12, 2011
![Rajdeep Sardesai]( "Rajdeep Sardesai")
Journalists are by training cynics, preferring to see every glass as half empty. But cynicism is no longer the exclusive preserve of mediapersons. A wave ...
12:10 AM, Aug 12, 2011
