in Arts/Literature by Vidyadhar Date 03/05/2024  Several prominent theatre personalities stood in a long  queue at the  Opera House in Mumbai lrecently  to get a signed  copy of  Amal Allana’s  book on her father  and the father of modern Indian  theatre Ebrahim Alkazi. It was a historic evening, a fitting  birth centenary tribute to the man  who…

Hello. My name is Maria Popova and The Marginalian is a record of my reading and reckoning with our search for meaning: sometimes through science and philosophy, sometimes through poetry and children’s books, always through the lens of wonder. Founded in 2006 as an email to seven friends under the outgrown name Brain Pickings and since included in the Library of Congress…

In “Something About the Sky,” the National Book Award-winning marine biologist brings her signature sense of wonder to the science of clouds. By Maria Popova Maria Popova, the creator of TheMarginalian.org and the author of the forthcoming “The Universe in Verse: 15 Windows on Wonder Through Science and Poetry,” has written about Rachel Carson in her book “Figuring.”…

Our first few years as a child can determine the rest of our lives This article is more than 1 year old Beverley Barnett-Jones If we get those early years right, we can avoid so much harm later in life. So why don’t we properly support parents? Mon 3 Apr 2023 12.00 BSTShare402 During pregnancy…

in Environmental Protection by Bharat Dogra 01/05/2024 Various technologies of manipulation and modification of insects, including genetic modification, have been attracting a lot of debate in recent years, particularly in the context of mosquitoes. This debate heats up further if we include the hidden possibilities of the use of some of these technologies for biological or entomological…