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The breathing walls of Golconda Fort
Editorial / February 23, 2026
The breathing walls of Golconda Fort

Tourists at Golconda Fort encounter two kinds of guides. The first carries official credentials, facts, and a script. The second "unofficial...

Convergence of Crisis and Opportunity
Editorial / February 23, 2026
Convergence of Crisis and Opportunity

Every morning in the Namib Desert, as fog rolls in from the Atlantic, a beetle performs a ritual perfected over millions of years. It climbs atop a...

Crystals That Power Innovation: Inside Prof. Parthapratim Munshi’s Multifunctional Molecular Materials Research Laboratory
Editorial / January 27, 2026
Crystals That Power Innovation: Inside Prof. Parthapratim Munshi’s Multifunctional Molecular Materials Research Laboratory

Scientific progress often begins in places we cannot see—at the level of atoms. Crystallography, the science of understanding how atoms arrange...

Prof. Koichi Kawakami: Unlocking the Secrets of the Brain with Tiny Zebrafish
Editorial / November 27, 2025
Prof. Koichi Kawakami: Unlocking the Secrets of the Brain with Tiny Zebrafish

Imagine being able to watch the brain in action — to see how it thinks, learns, and responds to the world. That’s exactly what Prof. Koichi...

Unlocking the Secrets of Metastable States in Atomic Nuclei
Editorial / September 30, 2025
Unlocking the Secrets of Metastable States in Atomic Nuclei

In the complex world of nuclear physics, where matter is probed at its most fundamental level, Prof. Sujit Tandel, Senior Professor at the School...

Translation in Praxis
Editorial / September 19, 2025
Translation in Praxis

Two of the past five winners of the International Booker Prize, including this year’s, have been books by Indian authors in English translation:...