Blogs
SmogSense: Teaching Immune Cells to Read the Effects of Air Pollution
Every winter, Delhi-NCR's air becomes a public-health concern measured in numbers. The sky takes on a familiar grey haze, and we begin checking our...
India's Shadow Power Grid Is Full Of Carcinogens
Delhi's power grid does not get a summer off. In 2024, the city recorded its highest-ever peak demand of 8,656 MW. In 2025, even with wetter...
Making Sense of an Uncertain World: In Conversation with Dr Qazi Azhad Jamal
Interview and Story by Srijita Banerjee Mathematics is often presented as a world of certainty, where problems have precise answers. But when...
Beyond the Gene: Reading the Hidden Language of Plant DNA
When plants encounter drought, excess salt, or other environmental stresses, they cannot move away from the problem. Their survival depends on...
How Lasers Could Transform Wireless Communication
Laying fibre optic cables under city streets is a nightmare for pedestrians and traffic. In a dense Indian city, permits, trenches, and road damage...
Women, Wheels and Modern India
For much of the twentieth century, the bicycle symbolised freedom, mobility and modernity in India, but those freedoms were largely reserved for...
Teaching Machines the Language of Law
Tens of thousands of contracts can bind a large company like a country at once. Each one is a dense thicket of clauses, conditions, and exceptions...
Bloom That Could Charge Tomorrow
The first time Dr Ranjit Kumar slid the sample under an electron microscope, what came up on the screen looked less like a battery material and...
Printing the Future, Monitoring the Cracks
Construction is not an industry that changes quickly. It has been pouring concrete into moulds and stacking bricks in mortar for the better part of...
Perfume's dirty secret is actually clean energy
Somewhere on the outskirts of Kannauj, the Gangetic plain town that has supplied the world's perfumers with aromatic oils for three centuries,...