The false vaccine debate shows we’re in a golden age of believing whatever we want

As Georgia becomes the latest US state to report a case of measles, many across the land are shaking their heads in disbelief. How can otherwise intelligent, well-intention...

Climate change pushes India's poorest children into slavery - Satyarthi

Disasters resulting from climate change are pushing poor Indian families into poverty so deep that they are lured by traffickers into selling their children into bonded lab...

I’m Too Sexist For This Tweet

Old people can be hugely entertaining, as anyone who has ever heard their grandfather casually emit a jackhammer-style burp in public will agree. If they’re extra old...

The Technology – Content Nexus

As the New Year begins, consumer electronic fans from across the world gear up for the Consumer Electronic Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada. This behemoth of a convention ho...

Never mind growth, Davos delegates – how about a World Development Forum? Lawrence Haddad

This year’s gathering at Davos discussed inequality more than ever before. The latest Oxfam report has focused us all on one figure: 1% of the world’s populatio...

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Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius - and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. ~ Marilyn Monroe

It has now been a long time that I ...

Gates CEO: Let's Shrink Maternal Mortality

“This has been an area that’s so important and so challenging. It is essential to think about all aspects of that. For example, one of the areas that the Founda...

Data peers into Greenland?s ice sheet

This year?s gathering at Davos discussed inequality more than ever before. The latest Oxfam report has focused us all on one figure: 1% of the world?s population is soon to...

Femme Fatale: Bollywood women with a difference

Bollywood has experienced presence of women from different strata of society, contributing their generic and niche, as per the times and relevance. The leading ladies have ...