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How Payal became the first quadruple amputee champion

Raipur/Mumbai, April 11 -- By now, Sheetal Devi is familiar with the drill. Soon after receiving their medal - silver - podium finishers turn toward the flag for the national anthem of the gold-medal ... Read More


The veil and the self: Attar in a time of reckoning

India, April 11 -- Fariduddin Mohammad Attar Nishapuri lived between the 12th and 13th centuries in Nishapur, a major city in the Khorasan province of present-day northeastern Iran. He stands among th... Read More


honouring an eternal icon of Punjabi literature

India, April 11 -- The poetry of Bullhe Shah (d. 1758) is one of the glories of Punjabi literature. Born in Uch, Punjab, in present-day Pakistan, Bullhe Shah drew profoundly upon Sufi mysticism in his... Read More


Mysteries of the mind

India, April 11 -- Most of us have a fundamental understanding of how the physical world works. Early lessons in physics and chemistry help explain our reality in terms of concepts such as force, acce... Read More


'I absorbed vast amounts of shame as a child'

India, April 11 -- 1Your characters feel the ripple effects of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Can you tell us how you view the elasticity of time, and how understanding is shaped in hindsight, with such... Read More


The man with the courage to hope against history

India, April 11 -- The thing about Atal Bihari Vajpayee was that he was not only a political leader but a good human being. It was this combination that made him a statesman. In the avalanche of fast-... Read More


The aesthetics of Raja Ravi Varma

India, April 11 -- Few Indian artists have been as influential as Raja Ravi Varma (1848-1906). Born in the Travancore royal family, Ravi Varma was one of the earliest - and the most successful - artis... Read More


Hot under your collar?

India, April 11 -- In our better summer fantasies, we're lounging next to a clear stream. We're soaking the sun near a big pool. We've got the sunscreen we splurged on, we're finally getting to that b... Read More


Animal or just GOAT?

India, April 11 -- In 2016, a three-year-old boy fell into the gorilla enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo in the USA. Harambe, the 200-kg endangered resident, unfamiliar with human kids, dragged him thro... Read More


Heavy on the drip

India, April 11 -- Beware of looksmaxxers. The trend, in which men have been amping up their attractiveness, is already starting to ring hollow. Who wants shallow perfectionism (surgically chiselled j... Read More