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This article will be released in full online October 25, 2021. By any standards, John Burdon Sanderson Haldane (1892–1964) was a fascinating man.

28/04/2021 Krishnappa Chandrashekara delivering a lecture during the ‘Being Social’ symposium organised by the author’s students in June 2013 at the Centre for Ecological Sciences, IISc. Photo: RG Lab Collection The evolutionary biologist and polymath J.B.S. Haldane is said to have remarked that “The universe is not only queerer than we imagine but queerer than we can imagine.” And one of those many queer things is that there are more species of beetles than any other kind ...

A Dominant Character: The Radical Science and Restless Politics of J.B.S. Haldane. His most recent article for Harper’s Magazine, “A Port in a Storm,” appeared in the April 2018 issue. Tags

. Haldane, by Samanth Subramanian, W. W. Norton & Company, New York, NY , . Samanth Subramanian’s new biography of the British scientific genius J.B.S. Haldane (1892-1964) devotes its attention both to Haldane’s historic achievements in the field of genetics (and much other scientific research) and to his extremely prominent political activism. These two sides of his life occasionally overlapped. After a period as a very public fellow traveler of the British Communist Party, Haldane formall...

UPDATED: January 9, 2021 07:15 IST Who is an Indian? That question, which was at the heart of the anti-CAA protests, also animates a crop of recently published biographies. Threaded through these life stories are debates about who counts and who does not—and if the idea of India is inclusionary or exclusionary. It is appropriate to start with the Mughals. Ira Mukhoty’s Akbar provides a wide-ranging account of an emperor who was likely illiterate and dyslexic. Nevertheless, Akbar was shrewd ...

The 10 Best Books of 2020 The editors of the Journal’s books pages pick the year’s most distinguished fiction and nonfiction. Dec. 9, 2020 6:26 pm ET Abe: Abraham Lincoln in His Times By David S. Reynolds | Penguin Press Antebellum America was a rough-and-tumble proposition, with the dangerous and uncouth life of the frontier reflected in a fractious political scene in which violent language often crossed over into fistfights and worse. In this revelatory work of cultural biogr...