V Pattabhi Ram

Coming up: big-ticket changes

There is an urgent need to alter the way students learn and teachers teach engineering. Mandatory internship in industry, and compulsory pre-course orientation for...

From touch to talk

Virtual Assistants, like Alexa, will soon dominate the world and become as ubiquitous as e-mail. At Amazon, Alexa’s birthplace, a large multi-cultural, multi-functional team works...

Petrol should scale Mount 200

Recently, in the city of Amravati, petrol price did the unthinkable: it crossed L K  Advani’s age. Nonagenarian ‘petrol’ should soon hit a hundred and...

When God deserted his own country

Every tragedy, whatever the cause, calls for united action. Kerala saw this year, what Chennai had seen three years ago: unprecedented floods. Something like...

‘The Devil’s Advocate’: He changed the face of interviewing…

Karan Thapar spins a lovely yarn. You may not like the way he harangues guests in his talk shows. He is known to raise...

I MAY NOT VOTE

Nine months from today India will go to the polls to elect the government that will rule it between 2019 and 2024. Should I go...

The new world order

The world is transforming dramatically. Both the quality and the speed of change are frightening. Some call it the arrival of the 4th Industrial...

Asaram, Cauvery and Dipak Mishra

India is today suffering from a severely fractured polity. It is not good for the country. People, not just politicians, have stopped taking stands...

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