Reviews

Several cows dying within a short period can appear inexplicable, especially in a village where people know the animals well. Fear quickly fills the gap left…

Holi is often described as a festival of colour, but it is also an everyday chemistry lesson. The bright powders and liquid dyes used during the celebration…

A group of scientists in Hyderabad exposed a fake “miracle” cure for diabetes by applying a principle that fraudulent health claims often avoid: measurable…

Anna Mani’s career shows how scientific progress depends on careful measurement as much as on impressive theories. At a time when few Indian women entered…

The “sleeping prophet” story is presented as a mystery: an Indian man allegedly enters a deep, unusual sleep and reveals accurate predictions after waking.…

Stories of tantric powers occupy a complex space in Indian culture. They may involve claims of telepathy, healing, levitation, clairvoyance, control over…

Indian scriptures contain rich philosophical debates about consciousness, morality, reality, and the nature of the self. Texts such as the Vedas, Upanishads,…

Along Gujarat’s coast, seawater is abundant but drinking water can be scarce. Salinity enters shallow wells, drought reduces freshwater recharge, and tankers…

Srinivasa Ramanujan transformed the history of mathematics with ideas that emerged from an extraordinary combination of intuition, persistence, and independent…

Reports of glowing patches, flashes, coloured arcs and moving lights above the Himalayas often acquire a mysterious character. The dramatic landscape, thin air…