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Exorcising Twitter

Like WhatsApp, which has limited the number of forwards and eliminated a good deal of nonsense from the platform, Twitter needs to step up

Crack this one

Sir Michael Atiyah, who recently claimed to have proved one of the most esoteric of mathematical conjectures, the Riemann hypothesis (RH), has received both the Abel Prize and the Fields Medal

One sip at a time

Wine tasting is actually quite a lot of work: after the first few samples, both the nose and the palate start showing fatigue

Broken America

Bing Liu's debut documentary, Minding The Gap masterfully combines skateboarding antics with stories that resonate far and wide

The law is an ass

When will we stop hearing these homilies about the 'sanctity of marriage'?

Turbulence alert: Will the Ghost of 1996-99 haunt India's politics again?

In the 1996-98 period, we saw three prime ministers and two governments

More freedom

Need to deepen petro product pricing reforms

Schools for scandal

Despite a slew of tough laws against rape, why do we repeatedly encounter an institutional reluctance to call it out?

'Indecent' exposures

When we think of Bengali literature these days, we tend to consider works produced mostly in Kolkata or Dhaka

A fitting tribute

What makes him compelling is his ability to cut directly through and address the banality and the ordinariness of hatred

Acceptance after verdict

Civil society will have a tougher time convincing people of the importance of granting rights to sexual minorities, since it is not clear that a homosexual lifestyle can work in the Indian context

Shades of fundraising

Not only have artists contributed works of better quality, they have also ensured that values are lower than their market value to ensure that the transactions take place

Only connect

The movie, Searching exemplifies the social media zeitgeist

Fruit of labour

Wine grape harvesting was done by hand till advances in technology enabled machine-harvesting to increase the harvest speeds by up to 100 times

Myths about gender

Mythology and folklore certainly examined the issues around gender with a boldness that seems way ahead of its times

Specialists versus generalists

Design is a specialisation, but viewing it properly requires going back a couple of centuries

Love, war and the end of Empire

Set in the final years of the British rule in India, Daman Singh's Kitty's War is a fine example of realistic fiction

The loss of art patronage

Art is a reflection of society in the now and present, and (art or other) historians, scholars, researchers, curators or museums in the future will be hard-pressed to explain the loss of patronage

Living with AI

To be up close with the power and potential of AI can also be slightly unnerving

Reaffirming liberal triumphs

What is today seen as normal will be seen a few years from now as totally savage