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Stefano Pilati is much admired for his talent and his innate sprezzatura. A sort of punk heir to Robert de Montesquiou, Pilati walked the runway at Louis Vuitton and showed up in Anonymous Club’s lookbook; he also makes a ghost appearance…

Many Americans can trace some lines of their family tree back to the 1600s. However, African Americans descended from enslaved Africans, who began arriving in North America in 1619, lack ancestral information spanning several centuries. A…

Amitabh Bachchan never fails to floor his fans with his simplicity and humility. The megastar recently shared an interesting short story about his daily commute to work, which will surely relate to each and everyone of us. The 80-year-old…

When any matter is divided into smaller and smaller pieces, eventually all you are left with -- when it cannot be divided any further -- is a particle. Currently, there are 12 different known elementary particles, which in turn are made up…

Most life on Earth is based on polymers of 20 amino acids that have evolved into hundreds of thousands of different, highly specialized proteins. They catalyze reactions, form backbone and muscle and even generate movement. But is all that…

In his new book, Revolutionaries: The Other Story of How India Won Its Freedom, economist and writer Sanjeev Sanyal paints a fascinating portrait of world that is unafraid of the gallows. A chain of revolutionary activities simmers right…

The idea behind Random Identities, explains Stefano Pilati, is that you anybody can make it their own, even to the point of writing your own name in the blanks on the label. “Excerpts” of Pilati’s past writings appear in the brand’s fall…

Google CEO Sundar Pichai. File. | Photo Credit: AP Following the announcement that Google will be laying off 12,000 workers (about 6% of its workforce), workers shared their experience after being locked out of their systems, and with work…

Delegates and participants arriving in India to participate in G20 events in the country will be exempted from the 2 per cent random Covid testing rule for international arrivals, according to a top government official."This has been noted…

Eukaryotic cells -- the ones that make up most life as we know it, including all animals, plants and fungi -- are highly structured objects. These cells assemble and maintain their own smaller, internal bits: the membrane-bound organelles…