Amrutanjan and The American Legend
Chennai can be proud of having hosted the FIDE Chess Olympiad of 2022 in style and at such short notice too. Believe it or not the seeds for this event may have been sown fifty…
Virtual Therapeutics
The itch that cannot be scratched? Have you felt that? Even worse is feeling pain in a missing limb. It is a maddening sensation and for some amputees, the feeling is very real. Called Phantom…
Curiosity-driven research, curd rice and pickle
You may be familiar with MS Blue, the distinctive shade of blue, named for the legendary Carnatic vocalist M.S. Subbalakshmi, but now “Mas Blue,” is all set to wow the world of art. “Mas” comes from the…
Bionote
The poem Bionote, K.Srilata says, was written on a sort of impulse. “It was triggered by a comment I heard from a friend of mine – quite a culture-vulture himself – about another writer based in…
Pey Nayanar
On a dark night, the poet Karaikaal Ammaiyar, who is supposed to have lived in the 6th century A.D., went to the crematorium — a shunned space then and now — to watch Lord…
The Atlas of Perfumes
The gods created scents; humans make perfumes. Naked and frail, they survive only by artifice (trickery). Jean Giono In the late 1960s, Jean-Claude Ellena, an apprentice perfumer in France, tried to reproduce Eau…