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The Wars Of Our Times
April 12, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
People & moments that led to Ukraine, Gaza, Trump 2.0 Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Bob Woodword’s War is a riveting inside-the-room account of three crucial wars that have roiled the world in the last three…
April 12, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
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Cheese to Taylor Swift, it’s an acquired taste
April 5, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
Likes and dislikes are shaped by the culture you live in Jackfruit has an honourable place in Indian cuisine, but to Babur it was “unbelievably ugly and bad tasting. It looks exactly like sheep intestines…
April 5, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
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What’s Our Future Gonna Look Like?
March 29, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
Bill Gates talks to rich guys, techies, activists, scientists… Amidst existential anxieties about inequality, climate change and genAI, the pull of ‘future porn’ is enormous. We want to know which people have what solutions in…
March 29, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
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What’s new about the newly powerful right?
March 22, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
A loose global alliance that hates eggheads & loves ‘tradition’ Six authors (Rita Abrahamsen, Jean-Francois Drolet, Michael C Williams, Srdjan Vucetic, Karin Narita and Alexandra Gheciu) set out to understand today’s most dominant political idea…
March 22, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
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Owls & us: Seeing in the dark
March 15, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
Humans are their biggest problem…and students Owls have superpowers. They hunt like wolves of the sky. Their ears are Ferraris of sound sensitivity. Their brain does sophisticated math to pinpoint prey. They’re near-silent flyers. Their…
March 15, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
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Why even sky isn’t the limit for CEO pay
March 8, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
Blame their aura, clout, performance & inflated stock values Starbucks’ new CEO Brian Niccol earned $96mn for four months’ work last year when his US baristas earned only $18 an hour, on average. The hourly…
March 8, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
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God isn’t dead, so we better believe
March 1, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
An argument for established religion The modern world is wary of religion. But Believe: Why Everyone Should be Religious by Ross Douthat makes an intellectual case for faith, and why we would be better off…
March 1, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
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Humans now serve the global food system
February 22, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
Rather than being served by it Hunger and obesity, bumper crops and environmental damage are simultaneous facts of our food system. This incredibly complex global network is hard to describe. How the World Eats: A…
February 22, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
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Right under our noses, a very refined sense
February 15, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
Smelling is easy, also wonderfully complex & important Smelling is the easiest and most natural thing in the world. It creates experiences, emotions, memories and behaviours. And yet, in our age of sight and sound,…
February 15, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
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Rare earths bring us abundant violence
February 8, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
Count the costs of the electro-digital future We’re living on the cusp of the electro-digital age. Digital tech, renewable energy and EVs are going to be central to our world, faster than we think. Power…
February 8, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
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The What, The Why & The How Of Huawei
February 1, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
China’s mega hi-tech firm is made in the country’s image Huawei literally means ‘China is great’. House of Huawei: The Secret History of China’s Most Powerful Company by Eva Dou tells the story of the…
February 1, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
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All together now, for your future
January 25, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
Elites are suspicious of crowds, which are often forces of reform Crowds have a bad reputation. Watching the crowds at Bastille, French thinker Gustave Le Bon cast their behaviour as madness, a loss of individual…
January 25, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
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The Musks Of Another Time
January 18, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
Will Trump’s fave billionaire be as influential as bros Koch? We can’t know now whether Biden’s warning about the “tech-industrial” complex will become as famous as Eisenhower’s warning about “military-industrial complex”. It will depend on…
January 18, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
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Love notes into an old oak tree
January 11, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
About the world’s fading traditions & why they matter We often hear of the innovators, the pioneers, people who move things forward. But there’s barely a whisper about those who preserve a valuable tradition. Custodians…
January 11, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
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Safety & Freedom, Care & Happiness
January 4, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
Morality unites us more than politics divides us Do we share a sense of basic right and wrong? The Invention of Good and Evil: A World History of Morality by Hanno Sauer traces the moral…
January 4, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
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Games rule: Chess to call of duty
December 28, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
But these simulations can also injure and deceive us Games are a kind of untrue truth, says Kelly Clancy in Playing With Reality: How Games Have Shaped Our World. The book’s about how human intelligence,…
December 28, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
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We are all tribals, and that’s okay
December 21, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
Tribalism, a deep human instinct, can be harnessed for good Tribalism, defined as primal hatred for out-groups, is tearing the world apart, say pundits. But Tribal: How the Cultural Instincts That Divide Us Can Help…
December 21, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
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Why the global supply chain is under strain
December 14, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
Because the world-girdling system is inherently fragile When Covid first struck in China, the supply chain buckled – the links connecting farms, factories and distribution centres to households and businesses. How the World Ran Out…
December 14, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
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Death’s Certain, Its Fear Avoidable
December 7, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
Sage advice to future corpses We’re all going to die, but we shun that thought. Memento Mori: The Art of Contemplating Death to Live a Better Life by Joanna Ebenstein is an exploration and a…
December 7, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
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Buck stops where?
November 30, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
So, who’s in charge of money these days? Money is the engine of our world, writes David McWilliams in Money: A Story of Humanity. Money is trust. To mess with money is to rip the…
November 30, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
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