Why Oppenheimer Liked Hinduism

'Hinduism meshed with his sense that the world was paradoxical and puzzling.' IMAGE: Robert Downey Jr as Lewis Strauss and Cillian Murphy as Dr J Robert Oppenheimer in Christopher Nolan's film.......

'For 1,400 years India led the world in science'

'Indian science was perhaps more rational than the European science of the time.''Nobody tried or convicted Aryabhata just because he said Rahu-Ketu is nonsense.''Some Indians take the extreme view......

Shooting down Ukranian jet: Event waiting to happen

In a war situation, the policy of 'what is not mine is enemy' tends to hold sway.It is high time professional militaries took air defence seriously, notes Group Captain Murli Menon (retd). IMAGE:......

Sheena Bora Trial: Dog breeder Doglis takes the stand

'What delighted Christopher 'Doglis' Marquis, a Bandra dog-breeder who was a panch or witness in the case, most was spotting his own face among the police pictures of the exhumation process. As......

'Faculty at IITs, IIMs are victims of policies'

With his penchant for grabbing attention, Jairam Ramesh has set off a furious debate over the quality of teaching and faculty at the country's elite professional institutes, for technology and......

Column: Educating Kapil

A nation must educate its own, foreigners can only help at the margin, Sanjaya Baru. Kapil Sibal is a minister in a hurry. That is the good part of the news. India needs more such ministers,......

Middle class in India has arrived

The middle class in India has the sense that it is coming into its own; that it has acquired the numerical strength (300 million and more, if you use a fairly loose definition) to make the Indian......

Flying into a new era

It isn't the world's best-known airline. But last month, new kid on the block, Myanmar Airways International, made a breathtaking offer to Indian travellers. As an inaugural offer for three days,......

Part two of Ties with Pak

T R Vijay, Indore: I am for organising this tour, if not in Pak due to political reason or whatever it is, at least in a neutral territory. For that matter, this should be the case for the senior......