The Star Gazer Stars At TIME Gala

At this year's TIME ball in New York City on Thursday, April 25, you would have run into a Coimbatore-born American scientist, looking lovely in Sabyasachi Mukherjee designer finery, who would most......

'Why and how did science in India stagnate?'

'The debate between mythology and "rational" science in India is at least as old as Aryabhata and Brahmagupta and, to this day, has not been resolved in the Indian popular thinking on science.'......

A star called Kulkarni

A major astronomical discovery has a certain value that is not measurable like, say, an Infosys stock option," says Dr Srinivas Kulkarni. "Who can predict when an Indian might make such a discovery......