Sport has always had a little place for the supernatural. Kris Srikkanth was famous for his glimpses into the sun as he walked out to bat. For a Chennai boy this was risky business, the sun down south blazes unforgiving on most days. More…

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The ProposalThe proposal is as exotic as it is audacious: Get on a train at New York City’s Penn Station and hit Paris, London or Brussels just an hour later. “From an engineering point of view there are no serious stumbling blocks,” says Ernst Frankel, retired professor of ocean engineering at MIT. More…

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“You walked out in a cast 3 weeks back, feigning a fracture. We’ve been getting zeroes the last 3 episodes from the judges for the no-show. You have to dance this time. Come on” More…

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Bommai Kolu, also known as Golu, traditionally a women’s festival, is celebrated by South Indians (Tamilians especially) during Dassera (Navaratri). More…

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It was once synonymous with India’s widest network of footwear retail stores. Back when you bought everything with cash, seems so long ago doesn’t it, it meant you went home with new shoes to the merry notes of jangling coins in your pockets. More…

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A common problem with so-called “fusion” artists is that the fusion between the different aspects of music seems forced. This is true especially of wannabe popstars with art-house pretensions or one of the many emigrant/second-generation South Asians on the underground scene in the UK or USA. More…

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With Sony’s PlayStation3 and Nintendo’s Wii video game consoles going on sale in the US within two days of each other last week the video game market is set for a spurt of sales right in time for the year-end holiday period. More…

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Earlier this month researchers at the Flerov Institute of Nuclear Reactions in Russia announced the discovery of Element 118. Temporarily named ‘Ununoctium’ till the finding is verified and confirmed by other researchers, Element 118 is the heaviest element found yet. More…

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Tropicana Lychee Twirl:You have to read the fine print on the Lychee Twirl carton to see that this is an apple- lychee juice. Which is when you go ‘Ah, ok. Makes sense now.’ More…

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The legends of the Norsemen are not like the legends of other peoples. There is not in them the comforting knowledge of one supremely powerful force of good that is far more potent than any antagonistic force of evil could ever be. More…

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