Dragon lands on ostrich egg

GLOBE>> HISTORY • Austria

Oldest calendar

Calendar>> Archaeology• The UK

Bhutan: Pursuit of happiness

Karma Tshiteem is the secretary of the Gross National Happiness Commission, the novel name of Bhutan’s Planning Commission. He tells Aditya …

Dark shades of art

Galleries>> Corruption • UK/Tajikstan

Trial becomes comic

COMIC>> BRADLEY MANNING • USA

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Drinking to death

Elephanta caves: Re-carving the old magic

Working for over eight months at a stretch, the Wadars tibals arrive at Elephanta Island to recreate the old magic of the caves by breaking …

A mobile app that can help you track Zero Shadow Days

An app is enabling school children to understand history of measuring time and navigation

Dilip Kumar: The star of substance who always shadowed his society

The politics of development would always need a popular narrative of development; Dilip Kumar used his star power to build that narrative 

Bead's eye view

Glass beads reveal ancient Indian Ocean trade networks

Grains of culture

Why China lost out to Europe in industrialisation

America’s frozen aid

A commodity from their former colony kept the English cool in 19th century India

Kremlin on Tartar sweet

Sweet cruelty

Sugar plantations were run by African slaves who were tortured, but they also revolted against their masters

Temples of doom

The Mayans penchant for building places of worship brought their downfall

The Ice Story

Amit Shanker talks about a random photograph that helped him reveal how Americans kept British cool.

A web around the corrupt

Website>> Politics ÔÇó Kenya

Microchip on dogs

Hard nut to crack

How investing in processing machines can help India promote millets

An African-Canadian company is helping promote Mali's fonio millet by investing in processing machines. India too needs to procure advanced …

Big gods came after the rise of civilisations, not before, finds study using huge historical database

A massive database, named after Seshat, the Egyptian goddess of record keeping, is helping researchers 

Here is a chance to name an exoplanet and its star

The International Astronomical Union is seeking suggestions from people all over the world to name a select set of exoplanets and their host stars

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Cities are central to our future — they have the power to make, or break, society’s advances

Far from making the world flat, globalisation has made it spiky