Rise in Unprotected Sex by Gay Men Spurs H.I.V. Fears

Federal health officials are reporting a sharp increase in unprotected sex among gay American men, a development that makes it harder to fight the AIDS epidemic. Read Read More

Truth or Dare…? The Alchemy of Desire Deconstructed

I am completely compelled and driven by an intense need to write this piece because I’m no longer now, able to be in denial of the force driving me to give some persp...

Can child marriages be stopped?

Despite decades of international and local efforts to curb child marriage, Christina is hardly alone....

Garlic Tales

The day shimmered in the April heat. Vehicles of all shapes and sizes whizzed or trundled past, making the service road shudder at regular intervals. This made for a slight...

Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar – An Innings That Will Never End

Today Sachin Tendulkar will emerge from the dressing room to a packed house at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai to join MS Dhoni and team to don his Indian cricket white...

President Obama offers apologies to Americans who have lost their health insurances as a result of the new law

In his latest public attempt to gather support for the the Affordable Health Care Act President Obama was apologetic considering that insurance companies are reportedly can...

Rotary member and polio survivor Ramesh Ferris shares how ending polio will impact global health

“As a polio survivor, I’ve made it my mission to help bring life-saving vaccines to all children. I was born in India, where I contracted polio as a six-month-o...

Genetic testing raises hope for lung cancer treatments

Offering genetic testing to lung cancer patients can potentially save lives, research suggests.

A study of 5,000 patients found genetic profiling of lung tumours bo...

Comedy needs more female writers, says Veep’s Armando Iannucci

Julia Louis-Dreyfus’s heels may clatter down the corridors of power in the American sitcom Veep – now back for a second season – but her gender is not the...