Ideas, science, history and curiosities: the surprising, the strange and the thought-provoking, from India and around the world.
510 articles
A Bangalore call-center firm could hire only 3 of every 100 graduates in 2011, exposing India's employability gap and the failures of its education system.
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Census 2011 plus a Delhi University survey: 44% of respondents preferred a male child, and Delhi's child sex ratio stood at just 866 girls per 1,000 boys.
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April 4, 2011: Parliament’s PAC questioned Ratan Tata and Niira Radia on the 2G spectrum case — Joshi called Tata candid and Radia evasive.
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April 2011: after a decade of meat worship, top chefs started treating vegetables as the center of the plate. How they made veggie dishes taste meaty.
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Sexting and cyberbullying are devastating young lives, often overlapping: how adolescent impulsivity meets digital permanence — and what parents can do.
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In 2011 a 13-year-old Russian boy found a message in a bottle on a Kaliningrad beach — written 24 years earlier by a five-year-old German.
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Review of Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules (2011), the second film from Jeff Kinney's series, on Greg Heffley's fraught bond with his older brother.
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Why do women stay in toxic relationships? Trauma bonding, real structural constraints, and double-bind social pressure explain it better than the question
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Theresa May’s March 2011 student visa overhaul hit Indian students hardest: stricter English and money rules, curbs on post-study work, and a crackdown on
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A Boston woman thought her dachshund Lola died in a February fire. A month later she heard scratching in the wreckage — Lola was alive and expected to fully
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A Gorakhpur engineering college rusticated a final-year student for keeping her boyfriend in her hostel room. The incident -- and its double standard.
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In 2011, Amazon Web Services was a thrifty side bet renting servers for pennies an hour. How the cloud became Amazon's real empire.
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Kurt Vonnegut, Joseph Heller, and a billionaire's party: the famous 'enough' anecdote from John Bogle's book -- and what it says about wealth scandals.
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A small Oxford Brookes study found two cereal meals a day led to modest weight loss. What the 41-person trial actually showed -- and didn't.
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In 2011, Kay Hymowitz's 'Manning Up' argued the rise of women had turned men into boys. The extended-adolescence debate -- the facts and the framing.
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Two large studies in the New England Journal of Medicine found farm children develop less asthma -- and the key is microbial diversity, not just more germs.
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Crying at work carries different consequences for women than for men. What the research shows -- and practical advice for navigating the double standard.
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Why group dates caught on in India: safety, lower pressure, and the friend-group as chaperone. Inside the 2011 trend and what became of it.
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In February 2011, an anonymous online call urged Chinese 'Jasmine Revolution' protests in 13 cities. How Beijing's show of force snuffed it out.
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On February 14, 2011, thousands marched in Tehran chanting 'Mubarak, Ben Ali, now it's Seyyed Ali's turn.' Inside Iran's day of rage.
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