Snippets

This is a snippet from Robert McFarlane's Underland. It is a book about the history or cues to history, buried under the ground. This snippet is about how a scientist found an underground social network of plants and changed the course of underground ecology, for decades to come.

A snippet from Siddhartha Mukherjee's 'The Emperor of All Maladies.' This snippet echoes an argument that a relentless effort to find a cure is not the only thing fight against cancer needs. This fight needs to have such mechanisms for help and care to give support to the patients to fight the disease.

Find out what happened when Jawaharlal Nehru and his father, Motilal Nehru disagreed with each other on India's political future. Excerpt Credits: Indira:The Life of Indira Nehru Gandhi by Katherine Frank.