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What began as a revenge action by Harvard educated evolutionary biologist Joseph Popp - who was not considered for a permanent position at t...

Our society may forbid transgressive desires, but it has non-hesitatingly preserved such expressions in murals, paintings and artifacts sinc...

Spine chilling stories about ghosts are tales of the supernatural, which exist in only our imagination but are no less intriguing and compel...

Why the banana peel prompts a comical slip? Why zebra alone has black stripes? Why don’t woodpeckers get headaches? Why a toast lands butter...

Given his creative urge and innovative temperament, Wajid Ali Shah enriched thumri as a style of song, sitar as a musical instrument, and ka...

Even in the face of hardship, parents rarely hesitate to bestow a meaningful blessing upon their newborn. Cradled with the hope that he woul...

Is farming the world's greatest cause of environmental destruction? Even as a thought experiment, it may be hard to imagine. With fossil...

Dear Alyne: My Years as a Married Virgin conveys something intriguing but pretty personal and somewhat mischievous. The author asserts it to...

Mary Trump, a trained clinical psychologist who holds a Ph.D. from the Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies, unveils the traum...

The India growth story is fascinating. During the middle of the Mughal regime in 1700s, India accounted for 24 per cent of global GDP. In th...

As long as a language is yoked to a particular faith—as Urdu often is with Islam—it neither grows freely nor is understood in its fullness. ...

By the turn of the current century, a 3-degree rise in a cocktail of temperature and humidity will make life unbearable for at least 3.25 bi...

Lot has been written about on the medieval Mughal rule in India in recent years, mostly about the iconic rulers than the ordinary masses. Ho...

The writer has always been an avid reader and a collector of books. But it was a health emergency that made him realize that books have tran...

From her debut in 1955, the child artist Daisy Irani acted in over 300 movies. A natural talent with no formal training, she was known for h...

If recent tragic incidents across mountain slopes in various parts of the country are any indication, losing sleep at night over uncertain m...

Salman Rushdie needs a new introduction, more so after the fatal knife attack three years ago that had left him blind in one eye. But the wr...

With a post-graduate degree in Materials Science from Pennsylvania State University, Prateek Dasgupta took it upon himself to pull ancient h...