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Vibrant Pigments, Global Exchange

Against a field of deep blue, sword‑bearing demons surge toward a sacred fire. Ram — yellow‑clad, rendered in blue — lets loose a rain of arrows, with Lakshmana steady at his side. Vermilion blood spills from the demons as the ritual tilts toward battle. Demons...

The Cantab Lounge

By Joshua Miller Assistant Metro Editor, Boston Globe A live music and cheap beer kind of summer Thursday. It was after dark and I was standing in a packed Cambridge dive bar. Not any dive bar, mind you. It was the Cantab Lounge, an 87-year-old...

City Lights, Vanishing Stars

One December evening I climbed up to the mottai-madi, the bare terrace atop my parents’ four-floor apartment building in Chennai and waited for darkness to descend. The sun still hung low—an orange-red orb in the distance. Overhead, rose-ringed parakeets zipped towards their nightly roosts, squawking...

Moonshot for Menstrual Science

By Linda G. Griffith School of Engineering Professor of Teaching Innovation in the Departments of Biological and Mechanical Engineering at MIT THE MORNING of September 11, 2001, I arrived at my MIT office, wondering if I would last to teach my afternoon class. About two...

A Harvard Physicist Makes a Career at an HBCU

by Rhonda Hillbery. "In the 1960s, just as the civil rights movement stepped up its fight for equal rights and turmoil rocked the South, a young physics professor made his own mark on a rapidly changing, yet still stubbornly segregated, part of the nation. Dave...

The Knowledgeable Chennai Crowd

The cricket stadium in Madras has always been a mythical place to me. I have never once been there though I grew up in the city. Chennai’s M. A. Chidambaram stadium in Chepauk is considered the home of the “knowledgeable cricket crowd.” Who coined this...