Boson or bust? Higgs and his godless particle

The recent announcement suggesting the discovery of the long awaited Higgs Boson, if confirmed, fills a gap in the theoretical description of elementary particles known as the Standard Model. It would still leave More...

SL Bhyrappa on Distorting History: A Personal Account (Part 1)

Introduced and edited by Navaratna Srinivasa (NS) Rajaram, Contributing Editor Editor’s Note: In a previous FOLKS column a comparison was drawn between S.L. Bhyrappa’s controversial Kannada best seller Aavarana More...

How Powerful is Hafiz Saeed?

Column by Stephen Schwartz and Irfan Al-Alawi - Is Pakistani radical Islamist Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, at 61 years of age, the most powerful man in the world? Observing events of the past month, one might be justified More...

How We Speak of Mother Teresa

Column by Stephen Suleyman Schwartz - Agnes Ganxhë Bojaxhiu first became known to the world as Mother Teresa.   She was born in 1912 of Albanian Catholic parents in Shkupi (Skopje), then a major city, called More...

Engaging a Musical Prodigy

Trained by her father Pandit Ramrao Nayak – a Hindustani classical musician par excellence, Aarti Nayak, truly a “beauty with brains”, is undoubtedly a rising star in the world of Hindustani Classical More...