Through cafes and conferences, Wagh Bakri, Pachisi and other indigenous board games are finding new takers acrossMany of these are can be traced back by centuries, even millennia
5 min read14 Jun 2019Engaging them through fun board games can be a good way to get your child interested in money concepts
5 min read14 Nov 2018It's not just the kids from 'Stranger Things'. Adult board game fanatics are creating their own communities to connect with other fans. We meet one of the biggest such collectives, ReRoll from Bengaluru
10 min read19 Aug 2018Chess is believed to have its roots in the ancient Indian game of Chaturanga, Ludo has evolved from Gyan Chaupar and Nine Men's Morris is the modern version of Navakankari
2 min read13 Feb 2018A Bengaluru-based company is working on converting popular informal games into more contemporary board or card games
5 min read10 Feb 2018Google's artificial intelligence program, AlphaGo, beat Chinese Go master Ke Jie for a second time, taking an unassailable 2-0 lead in a best of three series
2 min read25 May 2017Portland-based software engineer Rael Dornfest has developed a board game called 'Tiffin', inspired by Mumbai's dabbawalas
2 min read12 Jul 2016The author on how an artificial intelligence (AI) program beat a human at an ancient Chinese board game
3 min read24 May 2016AlphaGo had attained expert human-level performance at Go, and had beaten European professional Go player Fan Hui in a match in London in October
2 min read9 Mar 2016As a brute number-crunching computer program wins yet another complex board game, did it actually display any intelligence?
4 min read27 Feb 2016The Union Budget contains details about the estimated receipts and the expenditure of the government for a particular fiscal year. The Budget is allotted for the upcoming fiscal year, which runs from 1st April to 31st March of the next year. Here is a quick guide on how the Union Budget is prepared