by Amrita Priya | Jul 6, 2024
(July 6, 2024) In the summer of 1998, Manjul Bhargava’s eye caught a mini Rubik’s cube sitting in a corner of his room. He began visualising numbers on each of the corners and in his own words, “saw binary quadratic forms coming out, three of...
by Amrita Priya | Jun 18, 2024
(June 18, 2024) A decades-long quest to understand his own identity culminated, for Ashutosh Mehndiratta, in his debut book, India and Faraway Lands: 5,000 Years of Connected History. The magnum opus has been condensed into a 386-page, imminently readable history of...
by Vikram Sharma | Nov 4, 2023
(November 4, 2023) When Dr TS Satish Kumar sits by his grand piano and runs his fingers effortlessly across keyboard — magic happens. In 2018, when he broke the ‘World’s fastest piano playing’ record, with a speed of 2,454 notes per minute and 47 notes in a second —...
by Minal Nirmala Khona | Oct 26, 2023
(October 26, 2023) Most of us remember Jugal Hansraj as the vulnerable little boy in the Shekhar Kapur directed film Masoom. He was also the face of several ad campaigns back in the 80s and 90s. At 21, he played the lead role in a few movies; and in the year 2000, he...
by Amrita Priya | Oct 15, 2023
(October 15, 2023) In 1946, a young girl named Nancie Joyce Margaret Jones embarked on her very first journey from England to India to reunite with her lover, Yudister Kumar. Yudister, who had completed his studies in the UK, had returned to India but was battling...
