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Business News > Mint Authors > Samanth Subramanian

Samanth Subramanian

Mint Author

ARTICLES BY SAMANTH SUBRAMANIAN

Photo: Indranil Bhoumik/Mint

The suffocating spectre of politics

4 min read . 21 Sep 2016

The foremost achievement of Brahman Naman is its pin-sharp portrayal of quizzing: a subculture uniquely Indian.

The geeks who knew too much

5 min read . 10 Jul 2016

Illustration by Yatish Asthana/Mint

The breathless traveller

8 min read . 18 Jul 2015

Photo: Saisen/Mint

In the beginning was the word

13 min read . 23 May 2015

U. Srinivas managed the rare feat of constructing, on a rail parallel to his Carnatic career, formidable renown in a genre that is unfortunately best described by that weak word—fusion. Photo: The Hindu

U. Srinivas, who made the mandolin his own, and many others’, dies

4 min read . 20 Sep 2014

Mixing Vedas and code in new-age India

1 min read . 31 Jan 2012

Dark and racy: Jackie Shroff (in white kurta) ; and (below) Yasmin Ponappa in stills from Aaranya Kaandam

Playful Tamil noir

2 min read . 27 Jun 2011

Keen eye: Rupika Chawla at her studio in New Delhi. Of the ‘innumerable’ paintings she has examined over the years, she says, ‘just a handful have been real Ravi Varmas’. Amit Agrawal / Mint

The case of the fake Ravi Varmas

7 min read . 11 Oct 2010

Famous Masons: (clockwise from top, left) J.R.D. Tata, Praful Patel, Rajendra Prasad and B.R. Ambedkar.

A brief history

1 min read . 10 Sep 2010

How does a Blackberry encrypt its services?

1 min read . 31 Aug 2010

For the record: Rambhai, earlier quite liberal with giving credit, now keeps accounts on small cards made out of cigarette cartons. Amit Dave/Mint

Rambhai | Students always want to save time

4 min read . 20 Aug 2010

Versatile musician: A file photo of Manohari Singh. Dinesh Ghate / Swar Aalap

Manohari Singh, maestro of the saxophone

4 min read . 15 Jul 2010

Soccer, sphere and science

1 min read . 17 Jun 2010

Water table: (top) G. Nagaraju, a hydrological facilitator, explains a chart comparing rainfall figures with groundwater levels at Krishnapuram village in Kurnool district of Andhra Pradesh; (below) K

Charting a conservation path

7 min read . 26 May 2010

Why is an underwater oil pipeline rupture so difficult to repair?

1 min read . 21 May 2010

What is Esma?

1 min read . 20 May 2010

How does the I-T department conduct a raid?

1 min read . 23 Apr 2010

What is this Sebi-Irda-Ulip issue really all about?

1 min read . 15 Apr 2010

Testing ground: Commission for Scientific and Technical Terminology members debate what words will make it to an English-Hindi glossary. The commission’s philosophy is: to replace English completely,

Language barrier | Cracking the English to Hindi code

7 min read . 15 Apr 2010

Why does China undervalue the yuan?

1 min read . 08 Apr 2010