Gangs, exploding fingers, black markets: Check out the wild afterlife of trash

India, June 7 -- It is strange, and sinister, how garbage travels. An empty packet of chips from the US, a diaper discarded in Germany and a plastic bottle from the Netherlands have all ended up with... Read More

Bug, MD: Nature's tiny healers

India, May 25 -- Birds do it. Bees do it. Even hibernating bears do it. They self-medicate, and they do it better than us. Bears, for instance, eat willow bark after their long winter snooze. Rich in ... Read More

Sam Leith: 'Read what you enjoy'

India, May 24 -- What was your way into the book? It struck me that children's literature was a slightly neglected field. I look back and think I'd made my whole career about writing, reading and thi... Read More

Bug, MD: Meet the surgeons and doctors of the wild

India, May 24 -- Birds do it. Bees do it. Even hibernating bears do it. They self-medicate, and they do it better than us. Bears, for instance, eat willow bark after their long winter snooze. Rich i... Read More

'In children's tales are the roots of all storytelling'

India, May 24 -- 1 What was your way into the book? It struck me that children's literature was a slightly neglected field. It also struck me that children's literature is dismissed as less important ... Read More

Stephen Greenblatt: "Shakespeare is like an enormous planet Jupiter"

India, May 17 -- How did you arrive at the theory of New Historicism, which you espoused in the 1987 essay, Towards A Poetics of Culture? When I was at the university, the overwhelmingly dominant app... Read More

'Shakespeare is like an enormous planet Jupiter'

India, May 17 -- 1Can you tell us a bit about your fascination with Shakespeare. In Will in the World, you call him a "person who wrote the most important body of imaginative literature of the last th... Read More

The thing is...: Wknd interviews Selim Khandakar, an unusual collector of everyday objects

India, May 9 -- Many have hobbies. Some have obsessions. What Selim Khandakar feels is a pure, unbridled desire for objects. Just before a cyclone hit his mud house in Kelepara village in the Hooghly... Read More

'For us physicists, beauty is a new idea that unifies and explains'

India, May 2 -- When Jainendra Jain was 12, he had a favourite story. It was the one about Satyendra Nath Bose, Einstein and a new theory on photon behaviour. "It was absolutely amazing to me that so... Read More

James Bradley: "The ocean shapes the world"

India, April 22 -- This is your first non-fiction book. What drew you to the subject of oceans? I thought about the idea 25 years ago where I wanted to use the ocean to think about questions of histo... Read More

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