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Haunted by hormones on the track
31 July 2015 3:10 AM ISTTill June 2014, <g data-gr-id="88">Dutee</g> Chand was the next big thing in Indian athletics. Touted as the next P T Usha, Chand had...
Oldest winged familiars are a menace now
15 March 2015 4:49 AM ISTThey are not the cleanest neighbour unless you prefer a house that looks like someone is throwing raw eggs at it on a regular basis. Almost every day,...
Sweet cruelty
20 Feb 2015 3:31 AM ISTIn 1493, when Christopher Columbus set sail for the New World, he took saplings of sugarcane with him. The crop flourished in the hot sunshine, heavy...
Grains of culture
17 Feb 2015 3:04 AM ISTIn the first millennium of our era, civilisations in China, India and South East Asia led the world in wealth and knowledge. Europe was mired in what...
Those magnificent men and their machines
10 Jan 2015 1:11 AM ISTIn October this year Prime Minister Narendra Modi told an audience of doctors in Mumbai that if we they were looking for inspiration they could turn...
Lonely spaces in the glitzy capital
9 Feb 2013 4:50 AM ISTAs I write this piece, thousands of young men and women are protesting in the country’s capital. I understand their rage. But I cannot empathise with...