Did the Vikings use crystal ‘sunstones’ to discover America?
Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons 26.7K Total Views Ancient records tell us that the intrepid Viking seafarers who discovered Iceland, Greenland and eventually North America navigated using landmarks, birds and whales,…
Disease may wipe out world’s bananas – but here’s how we might just save them
Photo Credit: pixabay 21.8K Total Views Catastrophe is looming for the banana industry. A new strain has emerged of a soil-borne fungus known as “Panama disease” which can wipe out…
TRS sweeps Hyderabad polls, decisively settling the question of whom the city belongs to
Photo Credit: IANS 25.7K Total Views On Friday, as results began to come in for the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation elections held on February 2, it was clear that the…
The first autobiographical novel by an Indian woman writing in English was both beautiful and profound
18.3K Total Views I began this series last summer with the first book written in English by an Indian. So when it was time to read the first book of…