This year’s economics Nobel Prize winner Richard Thaler wrote a trivia-lover’s fantasy book called Nudge, in which he described how tiny prompts can alter human behaviour. BBC has a nifty …
“Which Indian do you admire the most?” is a standard question in the modern method of televised interrogation because of a scourge called the “rapid-fire round”. Designed to make bored …
Every October, India goes through the by-now familiar drill of asking why there are not too many Indian-sounding names on the list of Nobel Prize winners. And on the odd …
K. JAVEED NAYEEM writes: We recently saw the veteran thespian Pran getting the Dada Saheb Phalke award for his contribution to Indian cinema over nearly five decades. As a child …
Why do more young people read stories titled “Seven things Amartya Sen told Sharmila Tagore“? For the same reason that more young people are interested in knowing the pet name …
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: Since 1990, of the 40 Nobel prize winners in economic sciences, 30 have held the passport of the United States of America. In the last 10 years …
The 2009 chemistry Nobel laureate Venkatraman Ramakrishnan in an interview with Indian Express editor-in-chief Shekhar Gupta for NDTV’s Walk the Talk programme, : “For long I used to sport a …
The world is an infinitely darker place when gems of the lustre of T.S. Satyan and his great friend H.Y. Sharada Prasad start shining no more. Sixty-one years ago, Satyan, …
A sample size of three spanning 79 years may be too small to even attempt a hypothesis. But, thanks to Venkatraman Ramakrishnan walking away with the 2009 Nobel (after C.V. …
On the day when yet another global leader who quotes him at the whirr of a teleprompter coolly walked away with the Nobel Prize for Peace, the latest model for …
India-born American scientist Venkataraman Ramakrishnan may have bagged the chemstry Nobel, but the “East or West, West is the Best” policy of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has deprived …
The following news item appeared in Star of Mysore on Monday: Noted litterateur Dr S. Prabhu Shankar yesterday dropped a bombshell when he alleged that a North Indian spoiled the …
In the latest issue of Outlook, the Bangalore-based historian Ramachandra Guha uses an academic trip to Norway to pen an Oslo diary. In his first week at the University, Guha …
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: I happened to run in to Nanubhai on Dalal Street. He was eating Khaman Dhokla in a farsan shop. “Khem cho, Nanubhai?” “Saru che.” He was looking …
Far lesser people than he have walked away with the Nobel Prize. Now the Nobel Committee has revealed why Mahatma Gandhi, despite being nominated five times, did not make the …
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