“These women are role models. This is an investigation into why very few women enter science. And we are looking for answers,” says Aashima Dogra. Sushama Agarwal has been a mathematician at the Ramanujan Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics at the University of Madras in Chennai for almost two decades. Her expertise lies in “functional analysis”, a branch of applied mathematics. Sushama is also possibly, one of the first […]

APJ Abdul Kalam’s 85th birth anniversary is being observed in the country. Kalam had passed away in July this year in Shillong after collapsing during a lecture. Abdul Kalam, who was born in the small temple town of Rameswaram in Tamil Nadu, was brilliant in academics and was interested in astro physics. Kalam, who has authored several books, loved to spend time with students and engaged in lectures and seminars […]

This year has seen the publication of several books and numerous articles devoted to a prime minister previously forgotten or ignored: PV Narasimha Rao. Despite enjoying a full five-year term in office, despite overseeing a major and defining shift in economic policy, despite effecting innovations in foreign policy such as the ‘Look East’ strategy, Narasimha Rao had thus far not got his due from scholars and commentators on Indian politics. […]

Like the people at https://mcshin.org/get-help/recovery-programs/28-day-residential-program/ say, addiction has been existing since a very long time. According to Norman Ohler, an award-winning German author, the Fuhrer became addicted to a heroin-like substance called Eukodel which was prescribed following a nervous breakdown in 1944. Adolf Hitler was a gibbering “super-junkie” whose veins were all but destroyed by thousands of opiate injections and the Nazi dictator’s heavy reliance on drugs was behind his […]

Twenty-three-old Kieren D’souza, an ultra-marathoner (one who covers more than the average 42 kms) created history back in April when he became the first Indian to qualify for the Sparthathlon, an annual run in Greece that lasts 246.6 km and is widely considered, ‘The world’s toughest race.’ This month, he went ahead and bettered that achievement by successfully completing the race. Defying all odds, he completed the race in 33 […]

Booker Prize-winning author Arundhati Roy is to publish her second novel – 20 years after her bestseller The God of Small Things came out. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness will be published in June 2017. “I am glad to report that the mad souls (even the wicked ones) in The Ministry of Utmost Happiness have found a way into the world,” Roy said. She has written a wide range of […]

Entering the hallowed campus of IITs is a dream that half of India sees, but only the crème de la crème succeed, and there’s no doubt about the fact that many students aspire to join this college. Over the years, a lot of students from IITs have made India proud and have inspired generations of students to work harder to get in. Two ex IITians Dr Subhash Kot and Dr […]

Nobody knows for certain who will win on Nov. 8 – but one man is pretty sure: Professor Allan Lichtman, who’s correctly predicted every presidential election since 1984. When we sat down in May, he explained how he comes to a decision. Lichtman’s prediction isn’t based on horse-race polls, shifting demographics or his own political opinions. Rather, he uses a system of true/false statements he calls the “Keys to the […]

Ayyappa Masagi has a simple message: “You want water? Call me!” Thousands have. And his phone rings dozens of times a day. There appears to be an endless supply of patients for the man nicknamed India’s “Water Doctor”. “I faced a lot of water problems in my childhood,” he said. “I used to go at 3am to fetch water from the stream. So I made an oath that when I […]

Engineering student Arun Suresh Kumar reported two significant security-related bugs to Facebook. Arun Suresh Kumar’s first tryst with computers was a Pentium 3 processor with 128 MB RAM. “I used to play games on it,” says the lad who has participated in and won bounties for his skills in cracking and fixing security bugs — Bitcasa Bug Bounty; AT&T Bug Bounty being some popular ones. Arun was in Class 12 […]