What is it to be human? While it is different from the question of what it is to be humane, it’s scopes are broader having occupied a wide spectrum of intellectuals- from the medicine practitioners, the biologists, the psychoanalysts
The first time I chanced upon the Prisma watermark on an acquaintance’s display photo on Facebook I was far from impressed, dismissing it as another of those fads doing the rounds on social media that redoes one’s photo in sketch
‘Half of my high school classmates are getting married and having kids and the other half are out chasing Pokémon. What a time to be alive.’ Amidst the onrush of articles in leading dailies and memes making the social
Humans have a penchant for anthropomorphising things. We encounter something that resembles one basic feature of humanness—the vague outline of a figure, a pair of eyes, a voice—and we are ready to endow the thing with a whole range of
Let us go back in time a little. It is early 2009 and the world has just woken up to social media. Facebook, YouTube and Twitter are still in the nascent stages of growth, each a few years old. And
While researching for this article, I remembered one of the episodes in Marvel’s Avengers Assemble series that hadn’t struck me as relevant at the time. Captain America bars the rest of the gang from using the Internet during some team-building
A year has passed since Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 disappeared on 8 March 2014. While search operations for the missing aircraft still continue, here are five airplane incidents that remain shrouded in mystery. 1. MALAYSIA AIRLINES FLIGHT MH370: En route
Nishtha Saluja explores the colossal shape that technology has taken in today’s world and the glaring impact it leaves on our lives. “ You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you
Imagine a villain taking all humanity captive, and slowly, in full view of the others, forcing individuals to jump to death, one after another heh-heh-heh, off a steep cliff. How many human beings do you estimate would need to be
Soumabrata Chatterjee talks about the Brazilian educationist and philosopher Paulo Freire, his ideas on education which have revolutionised Latin America and how they can still inspire us to be better students and better teachers… We remember the film Karate Kid,