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State of play: The story of modern Karnataka

India, Dec. 14 -- There are no teams; no winners or losers. No one is ever knocked out. There is just a seething mass of players, taking turns to be king. An ancient version of dodgeball is played rat... Read More


'What would it take for you to be happy?': Excerpts from the book Questions Without Answers

India, Nov. 21 -- (Excerpted with permission from Questions Without Answers by Sarah Manguso, illustrated by Liana Finck, published by Hogarth, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random... Read More


Aww struck: A new book puts together some of the best questions asked by children

India, Nov. 21 -- * Are you the same person when you're sleeping? * Why did animal control send a person to help that squirrel? Wasn't there an animal that could help him? * Will I grow tall like pa... Read More


Pasta, candy bars, soy: How war has shaped some of our favourite foods

India, Nov. 14 -- "It has been said that civilization is twenty-four hours and two meals away from barbarism," Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett write, in Good Omens (1990). Through history, the kitche... Read More


Pasta, candy bars, soy: How war shaped some of our favourite foods

India, Nov. 14 -- "It has been said that civilization is twenty-four hours and two meals away from barbarism," Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett write, in Good Omens (1990). Through history, the kitche... Read More


Change of hearth: Three new books explore how food is shaped by war

India, Nov. 14 -- About 90 years ago, people risked prison for the sake of pasta. Benito Mussolini launched a campaign against the staple in Italy, in the 1930s, and tried to promote rice instead. Ri... Read More


The bug stops here?

India, Nov. 9 -- "The time may come when penicillin can be bought by anyone in the shops. Then there is the danger that the ignorant man may easily underdose himself and by exposing his microbes to no... Read More


The bug stops here?: A look at where we are in the fight against antimicrobial resistance

India, Nov. 8 -- "The time may come when penicillin can be bought by anyone in the shops. Then there is the danger that the ignorant man may easily underdose himself and by exposing his microbes to no... Read More


The Curious Zoo...: A comic draws on science to cast bugs and spiders as superstars

India, Nov. 1 -- Ant-Man may be fictional, but the insect world is full of superheroes, of a kind. There's a spider with a lethal high-speed trap. Worms that can knot and unknot themselves. An acroba... Read More


The Curious Zoo...: A comic uses science to cast bugs and spiders as superstars

India, Nov. 1 -- Ant-Man may be fictional, but the insect world is full of superheroes, of a kind. There's a spider with a lethal high-speed trap. Worms that can knot and unknot themselves. An acroba... Read More