nanopolitan

The Nobel laureate has penned an opinion piece for The Telegraph (Kolkata) about the benefits of bicycles -- to the cyclists, to the citie...

The Mental Strain of Making Do With Less : Imagine that you are attending a late-afternoon meeting. Someone brings in a plate of cookies and...

In a a resignation letter , an (ex)-EPFL student (revealed to be one FeuDRenais, who shows up in the comments section) takes a cold, hard lo...

Anubhuti Vishnoi has a news story on an apparent display of spinal stiffness and intellectual autonomy : Arguing that IITs are not just tea...

For Guha, it all started with Prof. Balaram's editorials : I first began subscribing to Current Science for Balaram’s editorials. These...

Conversation with a Field Biologist in India -- Vijaysree Venkatraman interviews IISc alumna Swati Diwakar who is now a faculty member in t...

Now that the UGC has issued guidelines for foreign universities to set up shop in India on their own (i.e., not necessarily with an Indian p...

A gorgeous new website now hosts this classic! Enjoy . * * * The other two volumes will also presumably go online -- but I haven't se...

[ UPDATE : Harmful but not lethal an article from the print edition of today's The Hindu newspaper has some content from the essay belo...

I have been avoiding this sort of blogging for some years now, but then... The body of an unsolicited email I received now reads: Dear (M...

A BBC news story on affirmative action policies in Brazil's federal universities . Almost all the arguments -- for affirmative action a...

It's nice to see the Centre for NanoScience and Engineering ( CeNSE ) in our Institute being featured in this photo-essay by Aniruddha ...

Ananthalakshmi Sadagopan is one of the renowned Carnatic music singers considered on par with the female legends who made their concert...

Yesterday, Arunn posted a schematic diagram that used emoticons to explain something in the paper. But a real nano-emoticon was made and ...

Ballmer’s reign has done more to defang Microsoft than the Justice Department could ever have hoped to do. -- Nicholas Thompson in the New ...