Jal Jeevan Mission spurs women’s workforce participation

A recent research report by the State...

RUSSIA’S ECONOMY IS BOOMING, SO WHY IS IT IN TROUBLE?

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Abandoned by her adoptive family, betrayed by the state

Four decades ago, Mallika was adopted by a Danish family from a children’s home in Coimbatore, only to be abandoned a few years later. Personal misfortunes and state apathy...

Kangana Ranaut Backs ‘One Nation, One Election,’ Calls It the Need of the Hour

New Delhi: On Thursday, December 12, 2024, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Kangana Ranaut...

On 143rd Birth Anniversary, PM Modi Salutes Subramania Bharati’s Enduring Legacy and Vision

Prime Minister Narendra Modi released Kaala Varisayil Bharathi Padaippugal, a comprehensive collection of the...

On 143rd Birth Anniversary, PM Modi Salutes Subramania Bharati’s Enduring Legacy and Vision

NEW DELHI: On Wednesday, December 11, 2024, Prime Minister Narendra Modi released Kaala Varisayil...

Abandoned by her adoptive family, betrayed by the state

Four decades ago, Mallika was adopted by a Danish family from a children’s home in Coimbatore, only to be abandoned a few years later....

This mural in Delhi asks people to shift to sustainable living

On 5 June, the World Environment Day, Post-Art Project, an arts collective founded by two young Delhi-based artists, Gargi Chandola and Yaman Navlakha, painted...

‘India made a commitment to the cause of tiger conservation’

Biologist and wildlife conservationist, Latika Nath speaks to Nibedita Saha about India’s vanishing tiger population, and the need to streamline our tiger conservation programmes.   Q....

Childhood was given a new meaning in European schools

In the 18th and 19th centuries, the public schools of Britain, the lycées of France and the Cadet Academies of Prussia set the template...

‘Letters are preserved years after they have been written’

For those caught up with the humdrum of everyday life, letter writing may seem a hopelessly outdated form of communication. But not for this...

Tattoo artists become professionals as getting inked turns into a lifestyle

It’s now more of a lifestyle than just form of art,” saysVikas Malani about tattoos in a conversation with Guardian 20. He co-founded the...

The Challenge: Viral phenomena that made headlines on World Wide Web

The Internet is purposeful in nature, and human beings have been very inventive with its purpose. One of the main purposes the Internet serves...

Scissors, mirrors and sub-cultures: When barbers become hairstylists

Culture is an ensemble of emblems — that’s really how simple it is. Every human action which is reiterated over generations slowly transforms into...

Area of darkness: Serious research on disability in India remains a pipe dream

A first-of-its-kind social development report on disability rights was tabled recently at Delhi’s India International Centre (IIC), chaired by Muchkund Dubey, President of Council...

Every Child Matters

In the ’80s, you gave up your engineering career and began campaigning against child labour and for child rights. You also founded the Bachpan...

‘Our schools have spread to over 50 locations in the last 21 years’

Guardian 20 speaks to the Managing Director of G.D. Goenka schools, Nipun Goenka, who was recently selected as one of the 51 “new millennium...

Remembering Chandralekha, whose work redefined Indian dance traditions

Perhaps the only time Delhi’s first warehouse was turned into a black box theatre. Gati Dance Forum’s “Ignite, Festival of Contemporary Dance”, on from...

Remembering the man who made the ugly world of technology beautiful

It is widely known how religious teachings of the East have travelled at light’s speed to influence Westerners. From The Beatles to Steve Jobs,...

How an unknown microbiologist altered the face of HIV research in India

The discovery of HIV happened because of a search for a dissertation topic by a microbiology student in erstwhile Madras. Sellappan Nirmala was 32...

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