Humour In Adversity

It would be difficult to imagine how a divorce could be turned into a comedy--but this is what writer-director Imran Rasheed has done with his new play Phir Se Shaadi!...

Health officials asked to explain 2,234 new HIV infections in the past two years

After the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) revealed that 2,234 people in the country have been infected by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) from 2014 to 2016...

India’s Immunization Coverage is Abysmal

India fares very poorly in comparison to other countries as far as expenditure and coverage for vaccinating it’s population goes. This, according to a recent white pa...

Weaving A Story Of Change

C. Sivagurunathan has spent all his life listening to the sound of the loom. “My parents would take turns and weave on a handloom that occupied much of our one-room h...

Why Is It Easier for India to Get to Mars Than to Tackle Its Toilet Challenge?

In 2013, India became the fourth country in the world (after Russia, the US and the EU) and the only emerging nation to launch a Mars probe into space. But it remains part ...

New Method For Trapping CO2 as Solid Rock Could Help to Fight Climate Change

There’s no denying that 2016 has been a year of environmental extremes. Think “extraordinarily” hot Arctic temperatures, rapidly melting glaciers, unprece...

Knitting, baking and painting improve well-being and mental health, study finds

It’s hard to pinpoint when exactly it happened, but at some point over the past few years, wool got cool.

No longer the preserve of grannies, knitting is now ...

Why Le Bataclan Was Right To Open, And Why We Need To Keep Celebrating Live Music

On 13 November 2015, at around 8.55pm, a friend nudged my side and whispered that something was happening in Paris.We were at the Roundhouse, one of the most iconic music v...

Planet Earth 2 Answered A Question: Who Will Win A Fight, A Crocodile Or A Jaguar

There seems to be one dramatic moment in Planet Earth II each week that becomes the talking point of the episode. In week one it was the marine iguana chase, in two it was ...