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Around 1980, Neelakantan's uncle predicted that "by the 10th standard, you would have forgotten about him", the 'him' ...

From the ongoing saga of women's struggle for equality : Saudi Arabia: Driving an automobile Tirupati: Women barbers New Delhi: Equa...

Take a look at this report from yesterday's Hindu. Its byline reads "A research finding with potential uses in therapy — and con j...

And, that would be ... a universe , of course! "It is the biggest thing we have ever done," said Carlos Frenk of the University...

Our soon-to-be-four-years-old son was back to school this morning after what seemed like an eternity of a summer break. And, what is the fir...

Over at ZooStation, Reuben says he runs into a review, every now and then, that "raises the bar on how to completely trash a movie...

Kamat has an article about India's arranged marriages . In another post , he says, "No discussion of arranged marriages is complet...

Do you know which Indian scientist said "While in Europe they dress for dinner, we in India undress"? Do you know the other Raman...

In the previous post, we talked about John Baez, who hosts the column this week's finds in mathematical physics on his website . Seein...

Okay, they are not real wars. But, they are not love, either! First, we have Eszter Hargittai of Crooked Timber firing the first shot w...

Pankaj Jalote, a prefessor of computer science at IIT-Kanpur, has a nice article in the 'learning curve' section of today's Econ...

[ Via Uma at Indian Writing ] : Deepak Nayyar, who stepped down recently from the Vice Chancellorship of Delhi University, has an Indian Ex...

Ravikiran Rao has commented on my post on the rhetoric of some right wing bloggers. He cites one of my old posts , in which I approvingly...

Well, it is Saturday already, but what the hell... Moreover, I am not the one who is blogging about it. Others were, yesterday. Dilip D...

Sanjay Dani has a guest column at Rediff making a strong case for why IT-BHU (from where I got my Bachelors degree) should become an IIT . ...