The concept of white-collar boxing – of a stressful, competitive hobby for people who already had stressful, competitive jobs – didn’t surprise Peel. He understood why bankers did it. All the pressures of the career – acute though they were – acquired a varnish of sameness, just as the moneyed, expat lifestyle followed a uniform […]
Buckminster Fuller dreamed of domed cities, newfangled cars, and hyper-efficient showers. To rescue humanity from itself through design and technology was, in Fuller’s view, his responsibility as well as his calling. This was reassuring: A belief in technology as salvation is really a belief in humankind’s capacity to use it as such, to not bend […]
Deep into the moonless night of September 28, two battalions of commandos stole over the Line of Control, the border separating India and Pakistan in Kashmir. They reached a series of “launch pads”— improvised structures where militants had assembled, so that they might easily slip across to conduct attacks in India.
Politics swamps every square inch of our national discourse; it contaminates every corner of our existence.
Indian education is dry and uninventive, yet our quizzing has evolved to be playful, and rich and creative.
