RAD MAYTHIL

Student Zulakha Hussain will be surprised. “I’m fed up of answering pointless questions in maths”, she wrote in a website poem. And then: [...]

Alfred Adler, who developed the theory of “inferiority complex”, was a middle child. He could see, all along, how the non-numero-unos were geared [...]

Godzilla pops up in the Big Apple after viciously handling some ships and leaving a few imposing footprints on tropical islands. It stops [...]

Lebanese poet Kahlil Gibran once remarked that people would never understand each other unless their language is reduced to half a dozen words. [...]

Any old package of African hunters’ tall tales usually contains awesome descriptions of elephant behaviour. Some stories hinge on the notion of elephant [...]

Myths often are born out of a conflict – the conflict between our unstoppable urge to explain everything and our inability to do [...]

Was a 2003 movie right about the weight of the human soul?   A rolling pun and some statistics. When you throw a [...]

A July news item made the year 2005 look like a Cinderella who’s left with an extra second after the midnight stroke. That [...]

COVID-19 couldn’t have silenced the mobile Towers of Babel, but it did stop the stampeding humanity in its tracks. The global effect of [...]

Did you readily decide to comply with social distancing in the early days of COVID-19? If you didn’t, Weiwei Zhang would say “blame [...]

The year 2020 would go into history as the “no hugs” year — a year in which people were forced to limit the [...]

Students mute their ignorance and answer questions correctly in an exam, without their ignorance being detected by teachers. Is this a possible scenario? [...]