Bhavya Chowdhury Number of words: 1,208 The broad outline of the story will be familiar to most Indian readers. The last great Mughal emperor, Aurangzeb—a capable general and dogmatic ruler—died on 20 February 1707. His death created a power vacuum in the subcontinent. A number of local rulers started asserting their autonomy by delaying or refusing outright … Read more
Number of words: 1,097 Though it is a busy stretch of water near the harbour of Southampton, UK, the vast expanse of the Solent strait is ideal for sailing. One can imagine people perched on their sail boats, cradled in life-jackets, cruising through the waters here on a sunny weekend. But on an overcast afternoon … Read more
Number of words: 797 I googled the question “ should I charge my phone to 100”. Google returned 467 million results. From folks offering opinions on “how to properly charge” to others calling on “science”, there seems no obvious consensus in the media. Yet, unlike views on more socially charged topics, this question ought to be … Read more
Number of words: 1,997 I have a confession to make. But first, I want you to make a little confession to me. In the past year, I want you to just raise your hand if you’ve experienced relatively little stress. Anyone? How about a moderate amount of stress? Who has experienced a lot of stress? Yeah. Me too. But that … Read more
Number of words: 1,222 Annika Reinhold says that she likes playing with animals (she has two cats) and “doing unconventional things that no one has done before.” When the chance came up to teach rats to play hide-and-seek, she was a natural candidate. One might question the wisdom of training rats to hide, but there’s a good reason … Read more
Number of words: 943 Perhaps the biggest hurdle to humankind’s expansion throughout the solar system is the prohibitive cost of escaping Earth’s gravitational pull. So say Zephyr Penoyre from the University of Cambridge in the UK and Emily Sandford at Columbia University in New York. The problem is that rocket engines work by jettisoning mass … Read more
Number of words: 949 Observe the guy who has been driving like a moron and has finally crashed—he is stunned. It is the same expression on the man who is driving on the wrong side of the national highway and sees a truck coming at him—he is baffled. Only the cow, which crosses the road … Read more
Number of words: 202 Mary, who, with her sister, Louise, laughs at the idea of confiding in her father, also finds her father reluctant to “just talk” or “go over things” with her the way her mother does. “He sits down with me, and if we’re talking about stuff like school or job, he listens, … Read more
Number of words: 465 In mother/daughter interactions, the meanings invoked are often rooted in a girl’s past responses. A mother asks a checking-up question, and the daughter feels like a little girl again. “Do you have your keys?” or “Do you have bus money?” may seem like neutral questions to a mother, but to daughter the … Read more
Number of words: 263 The mothers in my study frequently say that they felt closer to their daughter’s generation than to their mother’s. They had clear memories of their own teenage years and though they said they ‘has changed a lot since then,’ they felt they were “basically the same person.” They expected to be … Read more
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