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In October 2013, Boris Kanev and Marta Samalea set off from Bulgaria with a simple mission – to reach India without taking a plane. The two spent the next 511 days on the road, walking and hitchhiking across Asia until they finally entered the country via Myanmar. As they travelled across some of the remotest […]
With over a dozen books, and multiple Hugo, Locus, and Nebula awards to its credit, Lois McMaster Bujold’s Vorkosigan Saga is one of the most successful series of science fiction adventure books. A series like this can be a bit daunting to read, but that’s not the case with Bujold’s books. That’s because many of […]
For a technology site, we spend a lot of time thinking about wrestling. Perhaps that’s because the nature of wrestling makes it appealing to geeks in the exact same way that spec battles between phones are. Some of you probably grew up with WWE – or WWF as it was called back then – trading […]
An entire generation grew up watching Disney’s The Jungle Book cartoons and if you did so in India, you probably can’t help but hum its title track, Jungle jungle baat chali hai pata chala hai, chaddi pehen ke phool khila hai… Although it seems like a story for children, Disney’s new film The Jungle Book […]
Fans – not audiences and consumers – can play a huge role in the popularity of any piece of pop culture. Just look at the long-standing power and influence of Star Wars, a space saga about a dysfunctional family that has given us a total of seven major big screen instalments, half a dozen television […]
Methods for making violins are hundreds of years old. 3D printing on the other hand, is still some years from being ready for the mainstream. The recently launched 3Dvarious crowdfunded project brings these two technologies together – the result of which, is a 3D-printed, single-piece (no seams or joints to interfere with the sound), electric […]
Recently, the first ever Beijing Comic Con took place in China. Jatin Varma, the founder of Comic Con India, who’s been running the show here for five years now, was one of the many people who lined up the attend the event, and spoke to Gadgets 360 to share his story. This is what he […]
It’s the Napoleonic wars, but with dragons. You can’t really get a one-line description of a book that is more to the point and still exciting. But the Temeraire series of books by author Naomi Novik is so much more than that, and over 10 long years, it’s unfolded across nine books – the latest […]
Tinkle Magazine has been a fixture in India since its launch in 1980. Along with Amar Chitra Katha, Tinkle has long been one of the most famous and iconic Indian comic magazines, and characters like Suppandi and Shikari Shambu are instantly recognisable to many Indians. One thing that’s been a constant for the magazine is […]
When reports trickled in that the wizarding saga of Harry Potter would get another chapter – this time via a play on London’s West End along with a book of the script, called Harry Potter and the Cursed Child – all corners of Pottermania exploded with glee. After all, not many franchises can match the […]