India: Protection Of Traditional Knowledge In India

The coming into force of the Nagoya Protocol in October will have great benefits for the defence of indigenous people's rights over their resources, and strengthen India's ...

This Bacteria-Powered Microrobot Navigates via Electric Fields

Engineers from Drexel University have devised a bacteria-powered microrobot that can be steered through fluids with applied electric fields. Imagine a tiny, tiny robotic sy...

LOOK, BHABHO’S IN A GHAGHRA CHOLI

By and large, the ‘powers that be for television’ have created a grid for how women should be portrayed in soaps. Placed in a box with a uniform dress code, it ...

Rediscovering Hidden Treasures : Hirak Rajar Deshe

The most renowned Indian film maker internationally, doubtless, is Satyajit Ray. His advent with the iconic debut, PatherPanchali (The Song of the Road) heralded an outstan...

Ending Child Marriage

Sharon J.’s marriage at age 14 in Tanzania dashed her hopes for the future: “My dream was to study to be a journalist. Until today, when I watch news or listen ...

Why Eradicating Earth’s Mosquitoes To Fight Disease Is Probably A Bad Idea

But what would a world free of mosquitoes look like? Would it be an Earth in which the infectious diseases that plague millions are completely, permanently, and mercifully ...

Women Fight For Access To Sacred Places In India.

This week, an estimated 500 women traveled by bus toward a temple in the Indian state of Maharashtra with the intent of storming its sacred altar ? where females have been ...

True Review Movie - Hindi - Mastizaade

Cast: Sunny Leone, Tusshar Kapoor, Vir Das, Suresh Menon, Shaad Randhawa

Direction: Milap Zaveri

Produced: Pritish Nandy, Rangita Pritish Nandy

Writ...

9 Economists Whose Ideas Are Changing The World

We’re living in the age of the rock star academic. Everyone is trying to make sense of financial crises and the old economics textbooks don’t work so well anymo...