As promised, the time has come to announce the winners of the 'Moonward' contest. Hearty congratulations to Titiksha Pandit (Pune), Nash Paul (Mumbai), Manasi Subramaniam (Chennai), Divya Joseph (Bangalore), and Indu Harikumar (Mumbai). The winners listed above will receive autographed copies of Moonward, a popular graphic novel by
Dan Nosowitz in Fast Company --- "Tantalum, a refractory metal, is an exceedingly rare mineral, mostly mined in Australia. It's used in the creation of tantalum capacitors, an extremely reliable sort of capacitor, which means you can find it in many of the most high-profile electronic devices,
It started in Belgium. One sizzling summer in a third-floor flat, my parents came strutting through the lounge to find their fat little fellow merrily leafing through a copy of War and Peace. I was two years old. Impressed? You shouldn’t be. To say that I had read and
Maureen Dowd in The New York Times --- "The great cosmic joke would be to find out definitively that the advances we thought were blessings --- from the hormones women pump into their bodies all their lives to the fancy phones people wait in line for all night ---
The Monochrome Madonna, the third book in the popular Lalli mystery series, begins with a strange, unexpected phone call, and a gruesome death. As the story unfolds, retired detective 'L. R.' Lalli uses her considerable skills to solve a baffling crime --- a murder without a motive. The
You may have heard of Kaki King, a.k.a Katherine King, from the 2008 movie August Rush, for which she provided the on-screen hands and talent for the main guitar-playing character. Or you may have heard of her rather unique skills that allow her to play the guitar in
Grammy Award-nominated producer and DJ Bob Sinclar will be performing live in Mumbai today at Hard Rock Café (Bombay Dyeing Mills Compound, Worli). The gig starts at 9.30 p.m. and the entry passes will set you back Rs. 3,000. The French DJ will also play live tomorrow
A rather interesting essay in The New Yorker by Sasha Frere-Jones about the state (and future) of online music --- "No one knows what the future of the music business will look like, but the near future of listening to music looks a lot like 1960. People will listen,
American thrash metal band Testament has confirmed that they will, indeed, be playing live in Bangalore, India, in October 2010, with none other than Slayer. This is, to say the very least, every Indian metalhead's dream come true. This is what the band (@Testamentband) posted on their Twitter
An excerpt from a lovely essay in The New Yorker by Laura Miller --- "But kids do read the books, and some of them will surely grow up to write dystopian tales of their own, incited by technologies or social trends we have yet to conceive. By then, reality