Prayers bring Hindu and Muslim communities together

"Bengal’s Durga Puja is a social festival first and a religious festival later" - Suddhabrata Deb

“Right from the puja mela (fair) to being res...

Sustaining Sanitation

With the Prime Minister riding high on the publicity of the Swachh Bharat Mission, clean India seems to be an achievable dream today, but statistics say otherwise.

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Wonder Where the Women Are

The advent of the 21st century may have boosted feminist movements and given women voices, but a study shows that in the world of cinema, we essentially live in a world tha...

My Way Of Being Political Is All In My Work

Publisher Naveen Kishore on theatre, the Indian reader, and what drives him to promote the arts Amongst one of the most universal of emotions is the strange wistfulness tha...

Plants Can See, Hear And Smell - & Respond

Plants, according to Jack C Schultz, "are just very slow animals". This is not a misunderstanding of basic biology. Schultz is a professor in the Division of Plant Sciences...

Boys & Girls Clubs Of America And Aaron's Present 50th Annual Keystone Conference

ATLANTA, March 3, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- More than 2,500 teen leaders from around the country convened in Chicago this week for Boys & Girls Clubs of America's 50th...

It's 2017! Why Do Women Still Need To Fight For Their Rights

It’s 2017! And just last week I was reading about how the Indian censor board of film certification has refused to certify a women empowerment film “Lipstick un...

TFW The Radioactive Garbage From Your Lab Turns Out To Be A Potential Cancer Treatment

There's an old adage that one person's trash is another person's treasure. Take the case of a Canadian physics lab that realized the radioactive waste it had been stockpili...

Intl Documentary Film Festival To Be Held In Feb

The Films Division of India will organise a three-day international documentary film festival here from February 24. The event would be organised in collaboration with Raji...