The ascent of men and their ideas

Thursday 12 February '09

Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln share the same birthday; but little else

The art of copying

Monday 26 May '08

There is a story doing the rounds on the internet about a young monk who arrives at a monastery and is asked to help...

President Gore?

Saturday 29 March '08

As Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton press on neck and neck, hurling muck at each other, towards a likely deadlock...

Gandhiji’s Ram

Monday 8 October '07

Instead of advising Sonia Gandhi to drop her surname if she did not believe in Ram...

Prez the button

Tuesday 3 July '07

Next time UPA leaders select candidates for top constitutional posts, they should study Parkinson’s Law.

The letter of the law

Friday 26 January '07

Sometimes it comes into apparent conflict with the social circumstances of a case

Ambassador and kitten

Thursday 11 May '06

During his tenure as the US envoy to India, John Kenneth Galbraith had his share of diplomatic mishaps.

Name dropping

Friday 17 March '06

At the beginning of the last century, a large number of Hindus in undivided Punjab stopped using their surnames.