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Haunted by hormones on the track
30 July 2015 9:40 PM GMTTill 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
14 March 2015 11:19 PM GMTThey 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
19 Feb 2015 10:01 PM GMTIn 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
16 Feb 2015 9:34 PM GMTIn 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
9 Jan 2015 7:41 PM GMTIn 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
8 Feb 2013 11:20 PM GMTAs 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...