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‘You can’t write poetry with dishonesty’: Javed Akhtar
“In a free society, you should be allowed to offend people to some extent,” remarked notable screenwriter, lyricist and poet Javed Akhtar to the audience at the Bengaluru Poetry Festival on Sunday. Akhtar engaged in a session with Delhi-based writer Humra Quraishi, where they discussed Akhtar’s early influences and Jadunama (the book on him), among other…
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‘Everything I’m saying is hiding in plain sight’: William Dalrymple
One, two buckle my shoe, three, four shut the door…We all know how it goes. But what are these one and two and three and four? As students, we learned that they are Arabic numerals. But we had learned wrong. If you rewind the chronicler’s tape a couple of centuries before the Islamic Golden Age…
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‘There’s no romance in modern restaurants’: Marco Pierre White
In one of the more grandiose rooms of the JW Marriott on Vittal Mallya Road on Saturday afternoon, sat a white gentleman not in his Sunday best. But maybe in his most relaxed outfit. Blue jeans, a white tee and a white handkerchief fashioned into a headgear. The man could be mistaken for a sailor…
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‘Strange that Indians have no recollection of Opium Wars’: Amitav Ghosh
Over the past two decades, one of the subjects that has managed to grip author Amitav Ghosh’s psyche on almost jacked-up levels has been opium. But not as a consumer, as an academic. He has been on a scholarly voyage to understand the opium trade and the Opium Wars of the 19th century, and to…
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Meet LiteFold, a biotech startup using proprietary AI to speed up drug discovery
Anindyadeep Sannigrahi is a machine learning (ML) engineer by training, but biology had long held his interest. So, when he joined the AI residency programme at the Bengaluru-based Lossfunk (a research lab which works on several AI problems at the forefront of academia) in 2025, he quickly turned his attention to protein folding — a biological process…
