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Photos | The art of being Gandhi ‘Sea-Bath (Before Breaking The Salt Law)’ (1998), watercolour on paper by Atul Dodiya.Premium 2 min read Share Via Read Full Story For a man who scarcely covered himself for most of his life, preferred walking barefoot, sported a bald pate and an emaciated frame, M.K. Gandhi cut a wildly photogenic figure. Not only was he the most photographed Indian of his time, he also inspired generations of artists to paint, sketch and sculpt him and create works that drew on his teachings and philosophy. TRENDING STORIESSee All 2 min read 2 min read 2 min read Premium...

Why the cyclotron in Chandigarh has a special place in science history The insides of the cyclotron (Image courtesy Jahnavi Phalkey)Premium 9 min read Share Via Read Full Story In 1967, one of the world’s oldest particle accelerators, built in the 1930s, was sent from the University of Rochester, USA to be housed at Panjab University, Chandigarh. Invented by American nuclear scientist Ernest O. Lawrence in 1929–1930 at the University of California, Berkeley, this particular type of particle accelerator, also known as a cyclotron, is an apparatus in which charged atomic and subatomic parti...

Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize longlist picks 12 power-packed titles The covers of the books in the longlist of the prize.Premium 1 min read Share Via Read Full Story The Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize, instituted by the New India Foundation (NIF) in 2018, for the best book-length work of non-fiction about India announced its longlist of 12 titles for the 2020 prize. The announcement was made online on Wednesday by writer and historian Ramachandra Guha, one of the members of the jury. A shortlist of 6 will be announced on 16 November. From a biography of V.D. Sarvarkar to an...

'Serious Men' review: Lying for a better life (from left) Indira Tiwari, Aakshath Das and Nawazuddin Siddiqui in 'Serious Men' 4 min read Share Via Read Full Story Who among us hasn’t committed to memory a piece of trivia, a line of verse? This may not be done purposefully, but the unveiling is almost always to our advantage, to impress an object of affection or someone whose approval we seek. Now imagine if a similar sort of acquisition—a few lines, a few numbers—could have life-altering consequences. How far would you go? This is the question at the heart of

JCB Prize 2020 shortlist | Deepa Anappara on storytelling and what it counts for Premium 6 min read Deepa Anappara In this first of a series of essays, written exclusively for Lounge, by writers shortlisted for the JCB Prize for Literature 2020, Deepa Anappara looks back on writing her debut novel, 'Djinn Patrol On The Purple Line' Share Via 1. One rainy morning you leave for your sister’s hospital to pick up a prescription for morphine. She is six years younger than you and she has stage four cancer, and the pain behind her ribs will not let her sit or walk or sleep. In a metal chair outs...