Archive for March, 2011

The Semifinal
March 31, 2011, 6 Comments

In this fine piece on perceptions of the great Ayrton Senna, Emma John says that it is often difficult for us, especiall ...

How a college student can derive the RNA world hypothesis from scratch
March 29, 2011, Comments Off

One of the greatest breakthroughs in twentieth century biology was the finding that RNA can serve as a catalyst and driv ...

How to have an ignorant opinion about the Service Tax on legal services…
March 29, 2011, 2 Comments

So the service tax on individual lawyers is going to see the light of day, and barring a Stay on the provisions of the F ...

What the Tortoise said to Achilles: An Interview with the Prime Minister of Akrasia
March 27, 2011, 7 Comments

The Tortoise is the Prime Minister of the Perfectionist Republic of Akrasia.  In his former avatar he was a scholar ste ...

Whip It !
March 24, 2011, 5 Comments

Drew Barrymore's directorial debut

Let’s not go all Moral over Tendulkar’s Walk
March 23, 2011, 18 Comments

On Sunday 45000 people crammed into Chepauk to witness what they perceived would be a divine experience. When Sachin Ten ...

India’s World Cup Woes
March 20, 2011, 2 Comments

Why watching India in the World Cup so far has been frustrating and disappointing.

On Gandu
March 19, 2011, 3 Comments

The last time I was told about the genius of a film that will never come above ground was when a group of Delhi Universi ...

Of Aesthetics and Amla
March 19, 2011, 2 Comments

We watch sports for a variety of reasons, some of which are detailed exquisitely in this series by the football blog, Ru ...

On Wikileaks
March 18, 2011, 7 Comments

Why Wikileaks must not be treated as a credible source of information