The Wendy Doniger controversy: An Alternative View

In any controversy, the participants cannot decide who is right or wrong. A democracy has a process in place to settle these disputes: the judiciary. Dinanath Batra in true democratic fashion......

Houston teenager invents lie detector test

It's barely a month since Kaavya Vishwanathan was caught for, well, cheating and trying to lie her way out of it. Now, at the other end of the truthiness spectrum comes 16-year-old Trisha Pasricha,......

Top Intel ISEF awards for 5 Indian students

Five Indian students are among the winners at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, the world's largest pre-college science competition in which an Indian-American girl also......

How to get Uncle Sam to fund your start-up

In 2006, Matt Silver, an engineering student in the Ph.D. program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, dreamed up a new method for converting organic waste into power. All he needed was......

Want to be innovative? 3 things to do

In the early spring 2005, senior Sony executives were shocked to see Sir Howard Stringer, then chief of Sony's US operations, listening to an Apple iPod while riding an elevator in the company's US......

9 more ways to find, retain best tutors

Part I: 10 ways to find, retain best tutors at IIMs, IITs An effective strategy for attracting and retaining the best faculty talent can be worked out by setting its following a few salient......

The new employee hiring techniques

What was her company missing? Susan Bowman asked herself that as soon as she plopped into her chair at Tri-anim, a medical-supplies distributor in Sylmar, California.It was two and a half years......

Here's the secret formula to sporting success

IMAGE: Michael Phelps with his medals. Photograph courtesy: Sports Illustrated Improving performances across a range of activities, including sport, might be as simple as applying an established......