Virtual Therapeutics
All of us have felt that itch which cannot be scratched. Even worse, imagine feeling pain in a missing limb It is a maddening sensation and for some amputees, the feeling is very real. Called
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Physician to the Bronze Gods
“Archaeological Chemist, temporary … at a cost of Rs 1,500 for the year 1929–’30 … required for work connected with the treatment of bronze images in the Museum,” read a job description in the
Anna Mani, Indian weather scientist
Anna Mani, student of CV Raman, made independent India self-reliant in measuring aspects of the weather, and helped lay the ground for harnessing solar and wind power as alternative sources of energy.
Making ketchup glide, pesticides stick
Drops of water bead up or roll right off the leaves of the lotus, making for that metaphysical metaphor – live like a lotus in the water. But the leaves of plants such as wheat,
Dilip Kumar, Improbable Tamil Anthologist
Dilip Kumar, Booksellers and Exporters, was the name of the Tamil literary bookstore he ran in Mylapore, Chennai. For over a quarter century, till 2016, research scholars and avid readers dropped in here to discuss
When Niels Bohr came to Mylapore
In the summer of 1958, Alladi Ramakrishnan returned to his elegant bungalow, Ekamra Nivas, in Madras after an unpaid sabbatical in the United States. The young Reader from the University of Madras had spent a