Sam Bankman-Fried's wild rise and abrupt crashAfter a speedy trial in Manhattan federal court, the onetime crypto king, now 31, was convicted on Thursday of seven counts of fraud and co...
03 Nov, 2023, 09.01 AM IST
Capitalisation of love? From Chaucer's poems to chocolates, Valentine's Day gifts have evolved over the yearsValentine's Day gifts are hardly a contemporary invention.
13 Feb, 2023, 06.55 PM IST
ChatGPT is confronting, but humans have always adapted to new technologyWhile ChatGPT threatens to change writing (and writing-related work) as we know it, the Mesopotamians, who lived 4,000 years ago (in a geog...
13 Feb, 2023, 11.32 AM IST
This is life in the metaverseMeta is estimated to have sold nearly 15 million metaverse-enabled headsets, and yet people remain skeptical of an immersive internet. Sinc...
09 Oct, 2022, 09.40 AM IST
Post-apocalyptic landscape or a distant galaxy? Future of dating lies in the metaverseYou could also just meet up at a bar, which is a popular VR date option.
26 Aug, 2022, 07.17 PM IST
Oscars 2022's colourless contingent: Why so many nominees use black-and-white visuals for storytellingThe colorless contingent has claimed quite a unique place in Oscars race.
23 Mar, 2022, 07.00 PM IST
The Banality of Magic, Whether Here or in OzThe reappearance of an iconic dress reminds us how ordinary magic can be
22 Jul, 2021, 11.16 PM IST
A new collection of stories by Haruki Murakami bring back author's dreamy vibe and magical realismThe best story in the collection, translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel, is 'Charlie Parker Plays Bossa Nova'.
06 Apr, 2021, 04.26 PM IST
Did you know the Twitter logo is named after a basketball legend?The basketball legend was in Mumbai recently for the NBA games.
15 Oct, 2019, 08.41 AM IST
What Subbarao enjoys post-RBI? He can speak without market fearThe observation assumes significance in the wake of intense speculation that Rajan decided against a second term because of his various utt...
15 Jul, 2016, 04.46 PM IST
Seven ideas from entrepreneurs for Independence DayWe asked founders of some of the most exciting enterprises about freedom and entrepreneurship, to get a sense of the kind of liberation sta...
14 Aug, 2015, 11.09 AM IST
How Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book stories were for many people the first introduction to IndiaLiving in the many worlds of India may never have given Kipling a sense of belonging, but it gave him the experiences to help him on the jo...
21 Dec, 2014, 12.01 PM IST
Inner DevilMilgram claimed to have exposed what was called ‘banality of evil’ in the Holocaust in the Adolf Eichmann trial.
26 Sep, 2014, 05.47 AM IST
Rescuing 'Idea of India' from the clutches of political jingoismIn truth, the idea of India belongs to us. We, not any party, are its inheritors from parents who courageously loosened nooses of creed and...
25 Apr, 2014, 10.08 AM IST
- Conscious sojourn: Bangkok is more than bargains and Buddha
There is indeed more to Bangkok than bargains and the Buddha.
29 Dec, 2011, 06.15 AM IST
- Card Game: Black door entry only for ultra affluents
Black cards break all previously defined threshold of consumer indulgence and extend the possibilities to levels never envisaged before.
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