New insight into Africa's history

Budget par chaiwale se charcha

A parallel government

A group of Afghanistan’s tribal elders supersedes constitutional bodies during national crises

The first predicted sighting

Pierre Gassendi became the first astronomer to catch a glimpse of Mercury on the basis of a prediction made by German astronomer Johannes Kepler.

Rs 16 lakh crore

This is the least value of "unproductive" work done by women in a year in India, and it is close to government's annual budget

Veerappan is dead

Long live the other Veerappans?

Sanitise and rule

How yellow fever became a ruse for the US to occupy Cuba

Timber and West African civil wars

A dictator and a timber dealer fomented West Africa's civil wars

Click the sick

Visual documentation of illnesses is integral to healthcare in the West but a rarity in India. Sayantan Bera charts the hows and whys of medical …

Clearing the clouds

Scientists are learning that the Indian monsoon is an integral part of the global ecosystem. The knowledge of these 'global teleconnections'…

Founded on piracy

The story of early US industrialisation

A thousand flavours

The Burmese people are a great exponent of slow food

Spells of sleep

Humans did not always sleep eight hours

A shy killer

Contrary to popular perception of being savage, dhole wild dogs are quite shy

What the blazes!

Is it the hand of God, or the soiled hand of man? The buck is being passed even as flames stretching hundreds and hundreds of kilometres …

Unjust and inaccurate?

Popular cinema, Hollywood and Bollywood, should be sensitive and truthful while portraying wild animals

Savage people

Human zoos were aids to anthropologists, scientists and racial theorists in 19th century

Machines, not humans, still define civilisation

The notion that science and technology are the indicators of a nation's development has helped establish white superiority through the ages and …

From beer to recombinant DNA

...or how the ethical minefield of biotechnology has grown over time

Buttressing the Raj

What were The Royal Indian Engineering College grads really up to? A history...

Classroom: Mayhem in March

Wings to soar high

A counselling initiative in Madhya Pradesh identifies interests of tribal students and facilitates their admission to institutes of higher education

Classroom: The history of future

The history of future

Humanity's puzzling past

The 4.5 million year blind leap from "almost human" to Homo sapiens continues to baffle palaeontologists, but 2 new finds offer a new …