The 2018 lull shows just how quickly investment fads can come and go. Gone for now are the days when Bitcoin dominated talk at holiday tables
2 min read15 Mar 2018Stephen Hawking wasn't just the pre-eminent scientific mind of our era, he was also the world's biggest celebrity scientist. Any pronouncement by him made front-page news
4 min read15 Mar 2018Daniel Taylor spent a lifetime trying to discover the mythical creature of the Himalayas. His findings are out in a new book.
8 min read21 Oct 2017In the Western world, the battle lines have been drawnbetween transnational, multicultural, polyglot elite and folk who 'live within borders, on the ground, in flyover regions'
4 min read30 Jan 2017It is difficult to truly give a sense of Junaid Jamshed's position atop Pakistani pop culturehe was Elvis, he was Michael Jackson, and more
8 min read25 Dec 2016Captain Haddock rode it, Raja Ravi Varma painted it, the Congress used it as its party symbol. The bovine creature in diverse roles in contemporary culture
9 min read30 Nov 2015The lack of South Asian role models in Western pop culture had always nagged Acharia-Bath, who made it a mission to help the Bollywood star become a household name in the US. With Quantico, she's already halfway there
12 min read4 Oct 2015Filipinos appear to be streets ahead of Indians when it comes to familiarity with global lingo
2 min read31 Dec 2014The 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