The new 'Rules of Discipline and proper conduct of students of JNU', running up to 10 pages, details punishments for several activities that have been classified as 'misconduct and …
Imagination: The Long Evolutionary History of Our Unique Ability To Envision What Doesn’t Exist
By learning what parts of the brain are crucial for imagination to work, neuroscientists can look back over hundreds of millions of years of evolution to figure out when …
Subtly But Surely, India’s Premier Colleges Still Enforce Caste Norms. I Saw it First Hand.
Life at the university would show me how marks, degrees, distinctions, awards and honours cannot teach you humility. Sadly, only education cannot build an egalitarian world.
Why Are So Many Gen Z-ers Drawn to Old Digital Cameras?
Smartphone cameras tend to be more advanced than their clunky, point-and-shoot predecessors. But the allure of cameras from the early 2000s reflects a broader search for meaning.
What I Learnt From Conversations with a 13-Year-Old in Modi’s India
The utter confidence with which a Class VIII student dismissed the farmers' protest in Delhi shows that the road back to a better-informed India is going to be a …
Night Skies Are Getting 9.6% Brighter Every Year as Light Pollution Erases Stars for Everyone
With the help of thousands of citizen scientists, a new study measured exactly how much brighter night skies are getting every year.
Salman Rushdie’s ‘Victory City’ Is a Victory of the Imagination
The author asks in his new book: How much of our history is believable? How much of our memory is false? How much of historical truth is invented? Finally, …
Supreme Court Dismisses Petitions to Postpone NEET PG
The petitions were filed by candidates who said they do not have sufficient time to prepare for the exam because their internships are ongoing.
