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A Physicians for Human Rights report from war-torn Misrata documented Gaddafi's atrocities — and the father who slit his daughters' throats after they were

August 30, 2011 · 2 min read

Arun Shourie, SAP Labs' V.R. Ferose, and author TGC Prasad — a gathering of the serious thinkers India's public discourse doesn't reflect enough.

August 29, 2011 · 1 min read

How a Naperville car dealership became an unlikely social hub for the area's South Asian community — and what it says about how luxury really sells.

August 26, 2011 · 1 min read

Groupon's China arm Gaopeng imploded months after launch — mass layoffs, a viral employee revolt, and 5,000 local clones. What the China debacle revealed.

August 24, 2011 · 2 min read

Navy, burgundy, camel, and emerald — the four colors stylists reach for when a shade has to work on any complexion. Why each one earns its place.

August 23, 2011 · 1 min read

An Imperial College study found that a mother's pre-pregnancy BMI shapes her newborn's body fat — including liver fat. The obesity fight may start in the womb.

August 23, 2011 · 1 min read

After a quadruple bypass and a stent, Bill Clinton adopted a plant-based diet and lost 20+ pounds. The story of the most famous vegan convert in politics.

August 23, 2011 · 2 min read

A survey claimed women spend five hours a day gossiping. The methodology collapses under scrutiny — and the stereotype it feeds has a long history.

August 16, 2011 · 1 min read

Yoga is a way of life, an integrated system of education for the body,mind and inner spirit. The art of right living was perfected and practiced in India…

August 9, 2011 · 4 min read

From the Jewish peyot to the Sikh kesh to the sadhu's full beard — why four faiths treat facial hair as a matter of devotion, and how differently they mean it.

August 7, 2011 · 1 min read

A reader's review of Jean Sasson's 'Princess' — the ghostwritten story of Princess Sultana and the appalling treatment of women in Saudi Arabia.

August 1, 2011 · 4 min read

A 2011 study claimed Internet Explorer users had below-average IQs. Days later, it was exposed as a hoax by a frustrated web developer — and it fooled the BBC.

July 31, 2011 · 2 min read

Former Harvard president Larry Summers finally said what he thought of the Winklevoss twins at Fortune's Brainstorm Tech conference — and the twins answered

July 28, 2011 · 2 min read

The sleepover question, the curfew question, the car question: parenting a teenager is a negotiation about control. Research says the painful version is not

July 25, 2011 · 1 min read

Investor Jim Rogers moved his family to Singapore so his daughters would grow up fluent in Mandarin. Was it genius parenting — or a sign of the times?

July 25, 2011 · 2 min read

A poem by Shlok Sharma about everything he'd like to do, from teaching his dog Kung Fu and turning the bullies blue to being a frozen ninja in space.

July 19, 2011 · 1 min read

Toronto-born Sim Bhullar, a 7-foot-5 Sikh of Punjabi descent, became the first player of Indian origin to reach the NBA — starting at New Mexico State.

July 16, 2011 · 1 min read

In a 2011 Wall Street Journal essay, Aatish Taseer — son of assassinated Pakistani governor Salman Taseer — traced Pakistan's obsession with India to its

July 16, 2011 · 2 min read

A 2011 Wall Street Journal essay on the 'divorce generation' asked a hard question: when parents pour everything into the kids, who tends the marriage?

July 11, 2011 · 1 min read

Arun Shourie's book on raising his son Aditya carries his wife Anita's wisdom: gratitude for an ordinary, boring, eventless day — a caregiver's creed.

July 11, 2011 · 2 min read