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A sporting crowd

Ajay Malik, the tennis under-14 champion, training at the gym and court built in a field in Haryana by his father Ajmer...

29 Oct 2016 10:22 PM IST

Fringe talk: Abominablehunt for yeti

Fringe talk: Abominablehunt for yeti

If hundreds of hours of grainy footage, accumulated over the years, is to be believed, we are not the only ones walking...

27 Oct 2016 2:04 AM IST

Amelia Mary Earhart was brave but was not a good pilot.

Cold case: Amelia died all alone

She was brave but was not a good pilot. She had 11 accidents before the final one

21 Sept 2016 3:42 AM IST

Big celebrity: The Mickey Mouse of Asia

Jackie Chan, the star of over 150 martial arts movies, is set to receive an Oscar.

8 Sept 2016 1:15 AM IST

(Top left corner) Chanda Kochhar, (below) Sudha Murthy, (middle) Priyanka Chopra, (top right) Indra Nooyi, (below) Zia Mody.

True grit: The ones who beat the odds

In 1974, a young Sudha Murthy had to fire off a postcard to Telco admonishing them for a job listing that had the...

31 Aug 2016 1:32 AM IST

Extinction events: The rumbling giants

Some weeks ago, geologists inspecting the beautiful Araku valley hill-station, which neighbours Vishakhapatnam city,...

18 Aug 2016 8:09 PM IST

Vincent Van Gogh, Self-portrait with Bandaged Ear, 1889

Cold case: Art’s most famous ear

On a cold night of the December of 1888, Vincent Van Gogh cut off his ear. It's perhaps the one fact the world knows...

3 Aug 2016 1:52 AM IST

A common sight as players gather for a big game

Poker Underground

The unparalleled emergence of a game that had to fight its way out in India

23 July 2016 10:39 PM IST

Euro musings: Your Euro word of the week, Duglegur!

Euro musings: Your Euro word of the week, Duglegur!

One particular word stood out as one of the world’s tiniest countries celebrated its best-ever football campaign...

7 July 2016 2:34 AM IST

Way to gau! Gold in cow pee

Way to gau! Gold in cow pee

Marshal MacKenna should’ve just filtered cow urine. Scientists from Junagadh Agricultural University (JAU) are...

29 Jun 2016 1:10 AM IST

Retro Rising: Welcome to this flippin’ crazy world

Retro Rising: Welcome to this flippin’ crazy world

Why the dumb flip-phone is staging a comeback worldwide — years after we decided to throw it away.

4 May 2016 2:53 AM IST

India’s War: The Making of Modern South Asia, 1939 to 1945 by Srinath Raghavan Penguin Random House pp: 550, Rs 699.

Call of duty: The war that made a country

India’s fight against the axis and the days before, and after, the great second war.

20 April 2016 2:43 AM IST