Death Ends Fun

So I just finished David Quammen’s The Song of the Dodo . An intricate, fascinating, sweeping book on many different levels that I highly re...

Allow me to list here a few of the more peculiar events of the last several days. I mean, there have been many, and don’t get the idea that...

My friend Nity walked with some migrants . So have some others. Through their accounts, I know second-hand what so many of my fellow-Indian...

I've covered the ground in this essay before, but two things: 1) It bears repeating, it bears repeating, because the myth it seeks to d...

A math column I wrote in December 2012 for Mint, reprised here. *** What I've been doing all morning is, I've been trying to co...

The question I have is, should I blame the film star? I played tennis with him this evening. Good session, apart from two things. One, I ...

My university buddy John wrote recently from the States. He has found an intriguing way to ... well, perhaps I'll just let him explain....