Humanity and crime have co-existed forever, as you see from Biblical stories to post-apocalyptic thrillers. We also admire the...

Questions about life and its purpose concern all of us. There are recurring debates on this by Scientists, Philosophers and Religious...

Theatre has long been used as a means of communicating protest against the establishment and for creating new perceptions of social...

Thermonuclear fusion reactions power our Sun and the stars. However, the physics of nuclear fusion started becoming clear only in the...

Elizabeth George has written forty-four books, of which twenty are novels of criminal and psychological suspense featuring Scotland...

An Appreciation of the Malayalam Film “Bheeshmaparvam” In “Bheeshmaparvam,” Amal Neerad has created a brilliant film about family,...

An international scandal involving a vast intra-European traffic in medical waste originating from France and culminating in eventual ...

In Arthur Clarke’s classic, 2001: A Space Odyssey, David Bowman is transported through the Stargate to a chamber decorated like a hotel...

Recent research identifies where humans appeared first in the African continent. The studies suggest that climate change pushed off the...

Plasma Processing exploits the properties of the ionised state of matter for material synthesis and transformation through physical and...

The river, in reality, a canal dug up to connect the Meenachil River to the boat jetty at Kacherikadavu, flows near my ancestral house...

While living in Bopal, a suburb of Ahmedabad, I had to take a long journey, almost an hour, from my home to Gandhinagar, where I had...

I have always had a fascination for words and the images they evoke. I like poetry because of the images created by clever and careful...

Literature has produced admirable heroines. They have strong personalities and are quite complex in their character. They make...

One of the weirdest fictional heroes I have come across is Jack Reacher. The Jack Reacher books by Lee Child, 24 of them, are...

I was born in Kottayam, and lived my early life there. It is a small, prosperous town in the southern part of Kerala, which, in 1989,...

The Facilit ation Centre for Industrial Plasma Technologies, Gandhinagar, IndiaIn the early 1990s, during the period of a lull following...

In the early 1990s, during the period of a lull following the commissioning of the Indian Tokamak “ADITYA” at the Institute for Plasma ...

When we came to Ahmedabad in 1972, one of the monthly rituals was to go to Manek Chowk and buy groceries for the month. Sometimes this...

“Why I Blog”, Andrew Sullivan (1) writes that ‘as blogging evolves as a literary form, it generates a new and quintessentially...

In “Why I Blog”, Andrew Sullivan (1) writes that ‘as blogging evolves as a literary form, it generates a new and quintessentially...

If there is one genre of fiction that has celebrated global disasters, it is science fiction. The villains are Artificial Intelligence...

The standing joke in thermonuclear fusion research has been that the power from fusion was just around the corner; albeit a perpetually...

The standing joke in thermonuclear fusion research has been that the power from fusion was just around the corner; albeit a perpetually...