Bhavya Chowdhury Number of words: 509 Slow-motion footage, X-ray images and computer simulations have shed light on how woodpeckers avoid injuries to their brains as they peck. Their heads move some 6m/s (20ft/s), at each peck enduring a deceleration more than 1,000 times that of gravity. But researchers reporting in Plos One say that unequal upper and lower beak … Read more
Number of words: 571 Gandhi lived too long. Returning to India from South Africa in 1915, at the age of 45, holding himself aloof from the established politicians of the time, involving himself with communities and groups hitherto untouched by politics, taking on purely local forces here and there. He then went on very quickly, … Read more
Number of words: 676 “The youth, the peasants, the working class, all with one voice must declare that we will not allow facism to raise its head in our country. We will not have dictatorships in our country, we will carry on our people’s government. This is not Bangladesh. This is not Pakistan. This is … Read more
Number of words: 333 Complex imported ideas, forced through the retort of Indian sensibility, often come out cleansed of content, and harmless; this seems so regularly to lead back, through religion and now science, to the past and nullity: to the spinning wheel, the bullock cart. Intermediate Technology should mean a leap ahead, a leap … Read more
Number of words: 499 In Naxalbari itself nothing shows and little is remembered. Life continues as before in the green, rich looking countryside. The town is the usual Indian country town, ramshackle and dusty, with its little shops and stalls, it’s overloaded buses, cycle rickshaws, carts. It is there, in the choked streets, after the … Read more
Number of words: 523 To be an inhabitant of a chawl is to be established. But in the nooks and crannies of this area there is – as always in India – yet another, lower human level, with people for whom there is no room have made home for themselves. They have founded squatter settlements, … Read more
Number of words: 408 The novel, which is a form of social enquiry, and as such outside the Indian tradition, had come to India with the British. By the late 19 century, it had become established in Bengal, and then had spread. But it was only towards the end of the British period, in the … Read more
Number of words: 373 Here is the piece of history. In the forties when the world recognised the genius of the little man who shook the mighty colonial empire and made the British to free India, the world’s top magazine Life thought it was imperative to publish a cover story on his great man. This … Read more
Number of words: 355 Trivers treated a parent animal as if it were a rational agent calculating what economists call the ‘opportunity cost’ of an action. A parent has to pay costs of rearing each offspring. Among these costs might be food, including time and effort spent gathering it, time spent protecting the child from … Read more
Number of words: 358 The genes are the immortals …[they] have an expectation of life that must be measured not in decades but in thousands and millions of years. In sexually reproducing species, the individual is too large too temporary a genetic unit to qualify as a significant unit of natural selection. The group of … Read more
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