Romanes Lecture 2008 at Oxford University
 

 
It is not often that we hear bold, audacious statements being made that can inspire a generation and prod us to take a deeper look at future. A future that is free from the constraints of the past. A future that calls us to action. A future that is possible. [...]

In my undergraduate days in the United States, exam week meant showing up at school wearing sweatpants and a bleary expression, coffee clutched in one hand and class notes in the other.
At Oxford, it’s not much different, except showing up in sweatpants will get you turned away from the examination hall. That’s right—the same “sub-fusc” [...]

Hey ho – we’re into the 9th week of term now so that tells me 8 weeks of lectures are done, that this is revision week, and there 6 exams to do before the big end of exams afternoon at the Turf, end of term dinner at St Hilda’s, then a few weeks off for [...]

 
Vinay Nagaraju ©  
It was unlike any other day. I was taking a stroll on the banks of the river Isis in the Christ Church meadows. I paced up the last stretch of an avenue lined with beautiful English Elms that had shed much of its foliage. There was stillness and freshness in the lush green [...]