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- Prospective storytellingHow learning chess online revealed the power of thinking ahead — and its parallels with storytelling.
- Bluff. Double bluff. Triple bluff.A story of elaborate pranks and counter-pranks among IIT Kharagpur hostel mates.
- How to go back in time?There is no technology today that enables someone to go back in time — but two emerging technologies could change that.
- KGP, mon ami!A reminiscence of life at IIT Kharagpur — a long and wonderful evening, a night to remember.
- An average Indian teenagerThe average Indian teenager - Is a village boy. - His mother-tongue is Hindi. - Owns a chinese made cellphone but not a …
- Does iron really sharpen iron?Iron in its pure form is rarely manufactured. Different specimens are most likely to have different compositions — and that's what makes iron sharpen iron.
- The PledgeIndia is a mysterious country. Ramayana and Mahabharata are like the old testament for Indians.
- FutilityThe atheist was teaching the theist, teaching thermodynamics and stuff. Theist: Shit! Dada what is Q again?? Atheist: Co…