Gender Gap Persists In Graduation, College-Going

It’s hard to ignore discrepancies between white students and those of color when it comes to academic achievement. There are national and local organizations devoted ...

5 Hollywood Actors Who Work For A Good Cause

Celebrities like Angelina Jolie, Emma Watson and Leonardo Di Caprio have worked for causes like refugee’s crisis, feminism and environment respectively. Quoting the s...

WHO Urges Action Against Antibiotic Resistance.

Cautioning against the indiscriminate use of antibiotics and other drugs which leads to resistance to medicines and treatment failure, the World Health Organization has urg...

Christina Applegate To Be Honored At Wonder Woman Walk.

Award-winning actress and breast cancer advocate Christina Applegate and distinguished oncologist and women’s health advocate Dr. Philomena McAndrew will be honored f...

Christina Applegate To Be Honored At Wonder Woman Walk.

Award-winning actress and breast cancer advocate Christina Applegate and distinguished oncologist and women’s health advocate Dr. Philomena McAndrew will be honored f...

Prohibiting Women From Working As Bartenders Unconstitutional: Kerala High Court

The Kerala High Court has held that the rule prohibiting women from working as Bartenders is unconstitutional. Justice Dama Seshadri Naidu, allowed the writ petition moved ...

Environment, Development And The Paradox Of Progress

The wisdom of ancients was cast in proverbial stone when the Atharva Veda extolled believers to worship the environment, and consequently immortalized the message of preser...

Years Of Living Dangerously: Merchants Of Doubt hiding An Inconvenient Truth

The Climate Change debate has been active for close to thirty years now. James E Hansen was the first scientist to expose to dangers of climate change when he decided to of...

Apathy, Waste And The Rhetoric Of Concern

Rafi Nagar, Deonar, Mumbai
April 2012

The auto-rickshaw stopped at the corner of the narrow road. A large mound of garbag...