Video: Remembering the launch of India’s first indigenously made satellite, Aryabhata

Named after the Gupta-era mathematician-astronomer, the satellite was heralded as India’s giant leap into the space age.

Ramakrishnan M

· Apr 19, 2018 · 11:23 am

Video: An untrained linguist travelled across India to document more than a thousand dying languages

The census of India says the country is losing its languages. But Ganesh Devy and his People's Linguistic Survey of India seem to think otherwise.

Ramakrishnan M

· Apr 07, 2018 · 07:00 am

Video: Did the idli originate within or outside the Indian subcontinent?

The dish is first mentioned in a 10th century Kannada text but could actually have been invented much earlier by Indonesian chefs under the Chola empire.

Ramakrishnan M

· Mar 30, 2018 · 07:00 am

Video: How Nokia’s signature ringtone was created from the work of a 19th century Spanish guitarist

Long after Francisco Tárrega died, a snippet from his solo ‘Gran Vals’ was revived in the most unexpected way.

Ramakrishnan M

· Mar 22, 2018 · 05:28 pm

Video: Why Kerala has chosen the jackfruit as its official fruit

Despite being high in nutrition and drought resistant, it has remained an underutilised crop.

Ramakrishnan M

· Mar 21, 2018 · 07:00 am

Video: No, NASA astronaut Scott Kelly’s DNA did not change in space

There’s a difference between genes and gene expressions.

Ramakrishnan M

· Mar 19, 2018 · 06:47 pm

Video: A brief history of autocorrect

The first version of autocorrect, as we know it today, used a pre-programmed table of everyday typos and replaced them with the most popular suggestion.

Ramakrishnan M

· Mar 16, 2018 · 07:00 am

Video: In Mumbai, surgeons removed the world’s largest brain tumour

31-year-old shopkeeper Santlas Pal came to Mumbai's BYL Nair hospital earlier this month, with a brain tumour almost as large as his own head.

Ramakrishnan M

· Mar 01, 2018 · 07:00 am

Video: More than 70 years after independence, Elephanta Island finally has permanent power supply

It is home to around 1,200 people, engaged in fishing, farming and tourism activities, who managed their lives so far with diesel generators.

Ramakrishnan M

· Feb 28, 2018 · 09:38 am

Video: The Indian who pioneered fiber optics and missed winning the Nobel remains an unsung hero

Narinder Singh Kapany managed to transmit images over a bundle of optic fibers as early as 1953.

Ramakrishnan M

· Feb 27, 2018 · 04:00 pm

Video: Protocol? Canada PM Justin Trudeau’s youngest son Hadrien couldn’t care less

Whether in New Delhi or Ahmedabad, the three-year-old lit up drab diplomatic moments with his unrestrained goofiness.

Ramakrishnan M

· Feb 26, 2018 · 10:36 pm

Video: Why did the British construct a 1,700-km plant hedge cutting across the breadth of India?

Each mile of the hedge required at least 250 tons of organic matter and had as many as 12,000 men guarding it at different points.

Ramakrishnan M

· Feb 23, 2018 · 06:01 pm