A passage to infinity: The untold story of Srinivasa Ramanujan
Matthew Brown’s film, The Man Who Knew Infinity, is an account of the unlikely friendship between two mathematicians, GH Hardy and...
Nitin Desai: A more responsible politics
torm clouds are gathering, and our polity and economy are going to face rough weather in the months ahead. In Delhi, there is a breakdown...
Don’t cut corners on pension reform
Emotional arguments are being made about one rank one pension. The implementation of this would result in a sharp escalation in pension...
लोकार्पण की माया
जनसत्ता पुस्तक लोकार्पण की परंपरा की शुरुआत इस देश में कब हुई, इसके बारे में मुझे अभी तक कुछ विशेष जानकारी नहीं है। लेकिन संभवत: यह...
हादसे का सफर
पिछले कुछ समय से अलग-अलग वजहों से जिस तरह रेल हादसों और उनमें लोगों की जान जाने की घटनाएं सामने आ रही हैं, वह चिंता का विषय है। लेकिन...
When crisis comes home
From Indian Express Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan have been quick to declare that India is well...
About Sport And War
Two teams lost two emblematic cricketers in the space of two days. On Sunday, Australian captain Michael Clarke bowed out from...
Guns, cows and conference rooms
From The Economist On the polluted sands of Seaview beach in Karachi, a group of Chinese businessmen stand with their trousers rolled up...
No proof required: Why inflation fell
From Indian Express While it is generally accepted that CPI inflation has come down in India, there is still considerable debate as to...
Netaji, unreformed
From "Indian Express" Although political theorists in India, other than a few notable exceptions, have not theorised how sexual violence...
