Reducing food loss and waste could improve food security but it may not necessarily lead to expected environmental benefits, according…
A cursory glance at recent news reports suggests India is a very different place today than it was a decade…
It is early August and Kolar is shades of brown and green. Unexpected showers in the previous months have lifted…
Growing up, I would dread train rides, especially the part where I would have to visit the train loo. Apart…
The shocking visuals are back. In July, it was vehicles bobbing away in turbulent river waters and roads being eroded…
The reactions to the movie 'Oppenheimer' have been revealing. Some viewers have used the epithet 'great' to describe it, others…
For a decade, the uranium tailings pond near Tummalapalle and other villages in the YSR Kadapa district of Andhra Pradesh…
By 1900, the internal combustion engine was hailed as a way to clean up the world’s city streets, then heaped…
A West Bengal-based non-profit organisation has launched a new platform – India Sand Watch – which aims to monitor every…
After watching Barbie and Oppenheimer on the same day, and then reading some people's reactions to Barbie, I was left…
It was 8:15 on a Monday morning, Aug. 6, 1945. World War II was raging in Japan. An American B-29…
A controversial low-budget Indian feature film The Kerala Story, about a discredited anti-Muslim conspiracy theory, has been causing a political…
The past few days have shown just how unsafe women are in our country. Given below are some examples that…
Women's bodies have been objects of patriarchal control for millennia. Objectifying, ridiculing and demeaning women on account of their bodily…
Events of last week have acquired a mythic sheen on account of the prescience and wilful ignorance of that prognostication.…
In May this year, I followed the Hengduan mountains into the south-east of Tibet. Now, in June, I’m passing through…
Earlier this month, a man from Sidhi district in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh was arrested for urinating…
Was it a sleep device? What was 'mysterious' about that 'line'? Why now? Such and many other similar questions rang…
A few days ago, a news article caught my attention. It mentioned how a man had treated his parents 'like…
This year, a large proportion of Indians living in the central, western and south western parts of the country heaved…
Recently, one of my colleagues wondered aloud whether train accidents are not happening 'too frequently'? This was after the horrific…
We Indians pride ourselves on values such as 'nationalism' and 'patriotism'. In certain cities, there are even public arenas built…
The protesting wrestlers recently announced that they will hold a mahapanchayat in front of the new Parliament building on May…
A few weeks ago, the Centre submitted before the Supreme Court of India that gay marriages are an 'urban, elitist'…
On Tuesday, May 9, a female cheetah named Daksha, brought to Madhya Pradesh's Kuno National Park from South Africa, died.…
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