One more disaster
Spain’s Extreme Weather Shows We’re Losing the Climate Fight Imagine this: in October, the Valencia region in Spain usually gets about 3 inches of rain. But this time, it got 12 inches in just a...
View ArticleOne more disaster
Spain’s floods show climate politics is losing the fight Spain’s Valencia region averages 77mm (3 inches) rain for Oct. Heavy-rain warnings spoke of potential rain of 200mm (8 inches) in less than 12...
View ArticleCan’t take a joke?
Why Winnie The Pooh is scared of boo! Chinese censors are jumpy again. This time Halloween revellers are in their crosshairs. Celebrations for the festival were visibly restricted this year in...
View ArticleA light that glows through giving
By Brahma Kumari Shivani Deepavali reminds us of our true essence – ‘I am light, a pure and peaceful soul, master of this material body.’ Consider a diya, a traditional oil lamp lit during Deepavali....
View ArticleWhat’s India’s best foreign policy? Bigger economy
Bangladesh to Sri Lanka, subcontinental dependencies already prove this. If bending geopolitics to our shape isn’t as visible elsewhere, it’s because we are still only at 20 per cent of China’s GDP...
View ArticleBritish Raj is so yesterday
India’s no longer hassled about the Empire. Or bothered about the Commonwealth. The now inverted trade equation between India and post-Brexit Britain is satisfying enough India is totally over the...
View ArticleKarwa Chauth mehndi and a slice of ambition
On the eve of Karwa Chauth, I found myself running late from college, only to discover that all the neighbourhood salons were packed, and every Mehndi artist was already booked. As I searched for...
View ArticleDon’t let IMA turn clock back on PNDT Act, and lose two decades of progress
India’s missing girls began to make global headlines after Census 2001 when child sex ratios in Punjab plummeted to 798 girls per 1,000 boys from 875 in 1991. By the 2011 census, India’s sex ratio...
View ArticleMen, you can’t sweep this under the rug
When I first came back from America, I would be routinely asked, “Over there, you have to do everything by yourself don’t you?”. I would respond, “Yes, cooking, dishes, washing clothes…” and on...
View ArticleFoetal mistake
In a terribly gender unequal society, U-turn ideas such as legalising pre-birth sex determination are dangerous How the status of women and the opportunities available to them in India have improved...
View ArticleFoetal mistake
In a society where boys are often seen as more valuable than girls, some ideas, like allowing parents to find out the sex of their baby before birth, can be really dangerous. Women in India...
View ArticleTribal instincts
JMM, BJP are promising plenty of cash & looking to corner adivasi vote, but differently As the battle for Jharkhand heats up, both INDIA and NDA blocs are promising to spray cash around. BJP’s...
View ArticleTribal instincts
The election in Jharkhand is heating up, with the JMM and BJP both trying to win over tribal voters by promising lots of money. The BJP just released its plan, which includes hiring for over...
View ArticleImperfect us
Back when photos had no preview & no backup A picture is a stand against time, it says I was here, I existed, and someone cared enough about me to take my picture. Thus went...
View ArticleHow netas move land
Allegations that Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah’s wife has received more urban sites as compensation than were due to her, have rapidly spiralled into a full-blown political conflict, prompting actions by...
View ArticleOne story, two endings, two countries
With the India-China patrolling agreement in eastern Ladakh holding up so far – both sides are carrying out verification patrols – following Modi and Xi’s meeting on the sidelines of Brics summit in...
View ArticleGaining knowledge via quantum entanglement
By Anil K Rajvanshi What is thought? It is a hologram produced via photons emitted in the synaptic cleft, an extremely small, 20-nanometre region between neurons where one neuron talks with another by...
View ArticleThe election that will decide the fate of Maharashtra
This assembly election is going to be different in many ways. The overall scenario right now is that this election will decide the fate of Maharashtra, the state that is known as the most developed...
View ArticleWoes of a mother in the city of shame
Diwali, as we know it, is the festival of light, of victory of good over evil, of the spirit of giving, celebration and togetherness- in a family, fraternity and community. Woefully, what would have...
View ArticleToday is tomorrow: How machines rule India
In their book with the self-explanatory title Why machines will never rule the world, Barry Smith and Jobst Landgrebe argue that, “for mathematical reasons, there will never exist an artificial...
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