What’s gone wrong with TV news in India

Broadcast news has dominated as the major source of news and information across the world for over 3 decades. This was all the more possible...

Geena Davis on Empowering Women in the Entertainment Industry

There has been a significant increase in people, especially celebrities opening up to sexual harassment, all thanks to Harvey Weinstein. Then we have the allegations agains...

Famished India behind Myanmar and Bangladesh on the Global Hunger Index

With one of the highest rates of child malnutrition in the world, India has won notoriety as one of the nutritional basket cases of the world over the past few years. Globa...

Will Technology fuel a Man-Machine Struggle for Power?

Recently I read that Sophia is going to be the first robot to be granted citizenship of Saudi Arabia. She was interviewed by business writer Andrew Ross Sorkin at ...

How loss of sense of smell is related to the loss of memory

Around 47 million people around the world are living with dementia, with 4.1 million of them in India, according to a new report, which also found that nearly half of all p...

Apocalypse Now? ... Or Never!

“The time to answer the greatest challenge of our existence on this planet is now. You can make history or be vilified by it.” - Leonardo Di Caprio

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Sustaining our Development

The CEO of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Sue Desmond-Hellmann spoke to livemint.com, discussing the need to provide healthcare to India's poor to achieve the susta...

India's Failing Healthcare System

India's failing healthcare system, with latest tragedies from Gorakhpur and Farrukhabad in Uttar Pradesh, makes one question the system and the options involved, especially...