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India, July 20 -- Could your dreams be used against you? In Moroccan-American author Laila Lalami's new novel, The Dream Hotel, pre-crime surveillance has stretched its tentacles into our sleeping bra... Read More


There are always ways to resist: Wknd interviews dystopian author Laila Lalami

India, July 18 -- Could your dreams be used against you? In Moroccan-American author Laila Lalami's new novel, The Dream Hotel, pre-crime surveillance has stretched its tentacles into our sleeping br... Read More


Claudia de Rham: "The notion of time is not absolute"

India, July 14 -- What motivated you to dedicate your life to gravity research? It was always clear in my mind. When I started writing the book, it became clear that there could never have been anyth... Read More


The X factor: An Indian has cracked the code to randomness in the virtual world

India, July 12 -- Roll the dice, and the outcome could be anything between one and six. Such randomness fills our world. Step into the binary reality of computers, though, and randomness becomes a ra... Read More


The X factor: An Indian has cracked the code on randomness in the virtual world

India, July 12 -- Roll the dice, and the outcome could be anything between one and six. Such randomness fills our world. Step into the binary reality of computers, though, and randomness becomes a ra... Read More


Year of the... dragon?: Yuan Yang's new book explores the flip side of China's boom

India, June 21 -- What is it like being part of the "China story", one of 1.4 billion in an economy that has grown 3,000% since the 1980s? What do survival and success look like? How does young China... Read More


I spent years trying to be the black sheep of my family: Jeet Thayil on his deeply personal new book

India, June 20 -- It's a "conundrum of a novel", says Jeet Thayil, of his new book, The Elsewhereans. It begins with his father, the journalist TJS George, flying from Bombay to Cochin in the 1950s, ... Read More


Home run: Wknd sits down with Jeet Thayil to talk about his deeply personal new book

India, June 20 -- It's a "conundrum of a novel", says Jeet Thayil, of his new book, The Elsewhereans. It begins with his father, the journalist TJS George, flying from Bombay to Cochin in the 1950s, ... Read More


Master of disguise

India, June 15 -- In some ways, he is himself the stuff of science-fiction. For thousands of years, dating to ancient Greek and Welsh myths, then sci-fi and the worlds of HG Wells and Harry Potter, st... Read More


Master of disguise: Meet the inventor of a state-of-the-art invisibility cloak

India, June 13 -- In some ways, he is himself the stuff of science-fiction. For thousands of years, dating to ancient Greek and Welsh myths, then sci-fi and the worlds of HG Wells and Harry Potter, s... Read More