Stuff of nightmares
Thursday brought a strange amalgam of tragedy and triumph on the frontiers of technology which Nirad Chaudhury, undoubtedly, would have noted acerbically was not uncommon in this country.



Talking science
It is always a wondrous day when deliberations on how to structure a scientific revolution knock off the daily dose of political bickering from prime news slots. But it is a telling comment on the country’s scientific establishment that reportage on the 88th Indian Science Congress in New Delhi.



One for the road
It is true that a reporter must necessarily get into the soul of the subject at hand and re-live the pain and exhilaration — as the case may be. However, to step into the shoes of a Kargil widow as she narrates the tragedy that has befallen her family or cry tears of joy.



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