People & Society

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...

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AI revolution drives surge in gold demand

New Delhi: As AI systems become increasingly integral to devices such as smartphones, autonomous...

Business Correspondent

Impact of AI on solar module manufacturing efficiency

As the world increasingly turns to renewable energy sources, solar power has become a...

Business Kumar Shivam

Bioeconomy finally gets moment in spotlight at G20 Rio Summit

As the Brazilian Presidency of the G20 winds to a close, its efforts to...

Business Anupama Vijayakumar

Jio’s subscriber surge continues; BSNL’s dips

New Delhi: Reliance Jio has emerged as the clear leader in India’s telecom market...

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Homesickness

Living in India is like going to the Opera for the first time: you’re either going to love it or hate it. But it...

Using photography as a tool for better social engagement

Vinit Gupta, an ethnographer and researcher has documented the ongoing struggle of the people of Mahan, Asia’s oldest sal-wood forest. In 2011, the Mahan...

The dead often return to ensure justice is served

The Hema Upadhaya-Harish Bhambani murder case has been in the news recently and before that the Sheena Bora-Indrani Mukherjee case dominated the news for...

Philately remains the king of hobbies in the webbed world

Even as 2015 draws to a close, its passage is being recorded on a nearly obsolete thumb-size piece of paper, which was once an...

The case for making cricket a little less exciting and a lot more boring

Cricket is the only mainstream sport in the world that has a legitimate and integral role for boredom. Consider on the other hand tennis,...

Violence against women is also an important public-health issue

Violence against women is prevalent worldwide and sexual violence has to be looked at as a serious public health issue. According to the National...

Reconstructing the last journey

What really happened to Bose? Did he die at Taihoku in Taiwan on 18 Aug 1945? Did he perish in that plane crash? The...

Our greatest man of letters was a real public intellectual

Rabindranath Tagore still can mean many things to many people. His great corpus of poetry, of course, is right up there in his roster...

Decoding the mythology of cricket’s experts and analysts

For the better part of the third day of the recently concluded Mohali Test match between India and South Africa, I was not near...

Old story, new setting: Why sports fans need to stop raking up the golden past

The repeat telecast is an important sub genre of world cricket that the fans of the sport can’t possibly do without. Watching an old...

Mother Superior

The last memory of the Maadr-e-Millat of Pakistan, Fatima Jinnah, will always be that of her bruised body being carried in an open jeep,...

The fifth dimension youth collective

India is currently home to more than 35.6 crore youths. This means that the country is witnessing a dramatic demographic shift in favour of...

Elephants of Guruvayur: Victims of abysmal animal rights violations

“Victims of violence are rarely violent” — Albert Camus“If they have wings they have the right to fly, if they have legs they have the right...

A global campaign to save the Ganges sails forth with a rafting expedition

Rivers have always supported civilizations, and the Ganges has been a lifeline of the region it cuts across for ages. But it’s also a...

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