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TAKE WING

Sunday 18 October '09

A beginner’s guide to birding and what the little birds are telling you
Son of Biochemistry teachers, he graduated in Physics from Baroda

Thursday 8 October '09

“It is not my son, it is a man from Baroda who has won the Nobel.” This is what C V Ramakrishnan said when Maharaja Sayajirao University...
No ordinary math

Sunday 4 October '09

Harvard applied mathematics professor Lakshminarayan Mahadevan likes to solve problems —from how skin wrinkles to how a sheet can be made to stay afloat
A matter of choice

Sunday 27 September '09

At a time when IIT professors are on strike demanding a pay hike, The Sunday Express meets two former IIT-ians who went to the same university and worked in the same lab for three-and-a-half years before their paths diverged—one took the academic route back to IIT, and the other went on to head a company...
Street artist

Sunday 6 September '09

Streets. The mangled limbs of a city in transit, twisting through the Delhi of once-sacred cows and lazy autowallahs.
Hearth and soul

Sunday 23 August '09

At a home-stay in Wayanad, find peace and a taste of cliché-free Kerala
Bird Boy

Sunday 14 June '09

I THink I’ve seen it: a small, green bird that was being chased by a robin.” Udiyaman Shukla is talking of what could possibly be the first sighting of a thick billed flowerpecker in Delhi.
Living and loving Delhi

Sunday 24 May '09

The sun-soaked steps of Kushak Mahal are strewn with neem leaves. Thirsty barbets twitch feebly in the summer air.
Dreaming by the yamuna

Sunday 3 May '09

Under Nizamuddin Bridge, children wade through dark waters and watch hungrily as priests, clad in white, perform last rites on the sands besieged by plastic bottles.
The history display

Sunday 26 April '09

Kavita Singh waves aside the theory that art loses its context in a museum.
The world at your fingertips

Sunday 29 March '09

MITian Pranav Mistry’s dazzling new invention, SixthSense, has set the tech circuit abuzz. Mistry spoke to The Sunday Express on what the wearable gadget means to him, why it is important to free digital technology...
Do lefties have the upper hand?

Sunday 29 March '09

MITian Pranav Mistry’s dazzling new invention, SixthSense, has set the tech circuit abuzz. Mistry spoke to The Sunday Express on what the wearable gadget means to him, why it is important to free digital technology from the confines of the screen, and how...
‘Cannot keep eyes closed to capitalism, economic history’

Wednesday 18 March '09

With India’s GDP slowing down from its eight-plus per cent gallop and dialogue on meltdown finding its way to dinner tables, the average Indian has taken to observing the staggered capitalist machinery at work.
Indian-origin scientist unlocks way to speed up Net

Sunday 1 March '09

Think of it as the Internet on steroids. For those who have waited long enough for broadband connectivity...
The Expat Blog About Town

Sunday 1 March '09

They know your city better than you and blog about a foreign land with passion. Check out their India diaries
The problem of productisation

Sunday 15 February '09

Biomedical technology may be the toast of the century, but converting research into products for the market is still a strugglefor most inventors.
Fraying ends of chromosomes are pointers to ageing: Blackburn

Saturday 14 February '09

It’s hard to believe little dots hold us together. They were small enough on the slides illustrating Elizabeth Blackburn’s lecture, but in our bodies they are truly microscopic.
Fraying ends of chromosomes are pointers to ageing: Blackburn

Saturday 14 February '09

It’s hard to believe little dots hold us together. They were small enough on the slides illustrating Elizabeth Blackburn’s lecture, but in our bodies they are truly microscopic.
Working magic with the past

Sunday 8 February '09

It’s an assiduous ritual of renewal. What was a tattered pink rag is now a royal gold-flecked silk odhni, restored to its original century-old splendour, the ravages of time on it magically annulled.
Recording the past

Sunday 25 January '09

Orchids, roses and blue irises crowd Neeru Misra’s living room on her 52nd birthday. Her favourite flower? For the Monet enthusiast, this is quite a poser.
Sanskrit’s first Jnanpith winner is a ‘poet by instinct’

Wednesday 14 January '09

His first poem had more meters than he had years to his age. All of 11, Satya Vrat Shastri had already mastered the idioms and idiosyncrasies...
Leaves from his book

Sunday 11 January '09

Sharing a lifetime of experiences in the green fold, Mohan Ram tells the nativity story of the potato, weeds out the bad imports from the good...
New Year greetings keep postmen busy

Tuesday 30 December '08

Eight uniformed men and women pore over a table. It’s the ‘opening table’ at the delivery wing of the New Delhi-110001 post office at Bhai Vir Singh Marg...
WHY TIME WILL STOP

Sunday 28 December '08

Clocks are machines of whimsy. Every timepiece has a personality and a character of its own—and we are not talking about mother-of-pearl Rolexes and titanium Tissots here.
Beating their drum

Sunday 28 December '08

One winter afternoon, a group of jaunty collegiates looked around—at the wheeling bhelpuri walas, the bright soft drink carts and the people emerging from Palika Bazaar’s Gate No.
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