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For years, satellite photos of salt flats near the Rann of Kutch in Gujarat have circulated online, showing pale rings scattered across a flat plain. To many…

Feng shui, the Chinese practice of arranging objects to harmonise with invisible energy flows called qi, has spread well beyond its Yangtze origins. Across…

In a Kerala classroom, a simple pendulum became a practical tool for questioning a dramatic claim: that astrologers could foresee earthquakes by interpreting…

Few names in mathematics carry the mystique of Srinivasa Ramanujan, an Indian clerk from Madras whose notebooks upended long-held assumptions about numbers.…

Stories about a “magic mirror” in an ancient Indian temple often present an ordinary physical object as proof of supernatural knowledge. The mirror may seem…

That earthy scent after a long dry spell is often called petrichor. It can seem especially vivid when the first rain reaches sun-baked soil, dusty paths or a…

On a 12-hectare cotton plot near Khargone, Ramesh Patidar reinvented how his family farms. Heaviest spraying had produced thinner harvests, not better ones.…

Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis remains one of the most consequential figures in the development of modern statistics in the Global South. While household surveys…

Mourners across continents have long whispered that a deceased loved one's beard appears fuller, or that fingernails seem longer during viewing. In Australian…

Floating in the Buldhana district of Maharashtra sits a near-perfect circle of water ringed by low, forested walls. To most visitors it looks like a quiet…