We are storytellers. We dream up worlds that don't exist and feel changed by them. Throughout history, most stories flickered like mayflies, alive for a day, gone by the next.
But the Ramayana and the Mahabharata? Thousands of years old and still thriving — mutating across languages, shaping the moral instincts of over a billion people.
Why these stories? Why are they timeless?
Why do we go to war? Is war a glitch in human brain? Why our brain separates US from THEM? We try to understand the reasons of death, destruction and misery of war beyond morality.
Too much information, too little attention - this can be the tagline of current time. Here, 3 practical mental models are presented which can save us from information overload in the long run.
Is learning in English slower than learning in mother tongue? For Indian students, researchers and everybody interested in learning, language is a barrier. Do we connect to the global network or build our own language ecosystem?
The Indian government is increasing funding for Ayurveda and related traditional medicine research. Using data, history and common sense we try to answer what the bright and dark sides of both evidence-based modern medicine and Ayurveda are, and where policy makers should focus.
People lie. They are simple non-complicated lies. But Corporations and Governments lie with skill and statistical manipulation. They are complicated. How do they lie using truth?
A medical test for a disease is 99% accurate. This means, If you have the disease, the test will say "Positive" 99% of the time. If you don't have the disease, the test will say "Negative" 99% of the time. The result comes back Positive. Should you panic given the fact that 1 in 1000 people actually has the disease?
While India celebrates the rise of unicorns and the "Startup India" revolution, the foundational engine of its $5 trillion economy, Deep Science is quietly being switched off. Discover why the neglect of basic science today could lead to a technological blackout tomorrow, and why fintech founders, investors, and policymakers must care about the people in the labs at 2 AM.
So many news, so much information - How do you know which claims are correct and which are not? If a newspaper writes an article starting 'A recent study said that' - should you believe the article? Carl Sagan gave a common man's toolkit to detect BS.
Did language evolve as a part of gradual evolution of human being or it just accidentally happened? Why did language remain puzzle to the experts in Neuroscience, Archeology, Evolutionary Psychology?
