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Human Rights

Why Tagore Would Have Been Branded Anti-National Today

Yes, you read it right. Rabindranath Tagore, the poetic force of our national anthem was against the idea of nation and nationalism. To him, it was merely a machine that in...

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Alternative Entertainment

7 Talking Points From Kgaf 2016

Verve picks out the few but hard-hitting points at KGAF 2016 We braved through a barrage of SLRs and Selfie sticks to get a glimpse of the installations at Kala Ghoda Arts ...

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Sustainable Development

NITI Aayog To Soon Unveil Policy On Important Sectors

Taking forward its project of creating a national agenda in consultation with the states, the NITI Aayog will soon come out with policy papers on critical sectors such as a...

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Bollywood

Social Stigma On HIV/AIDS Should Be Pulled Down: Aishwarya Rai Bachchan.

Actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan feels that?COMMUNICATING?about HIV/AIDS is important in order to eliminate the social stigma associated with the disease. "As long as we keep...

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Retroscope

Retroscope - The Healing Touch

The following is no filmy story. But it has the possibility of inspiring a Raju Hirani or a Vidhu Vinod Chopra with a central character who is as delightful as Munnabhai an...

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Environment

China's 'Airpocalypse' Prompts Official Pledge to Cut Pollution

China will lower emissions from major polluting power plants by 60 percent by 2020, Chinese officials announced on Wednesday. The commitment?comes amidst ongoing climate ch...

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Sustainable Development

Now That We Can Edit Cancer's Genes, We Can Make Better Drugs

The ability to edit the human genome, a sci-fi procedure made possible by a new technique called CRISPR/Cas-9, has taken the field of genetic research by storm. In the...

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Health

Global Fight Against Tuberculosis Hinges On India Stepping Up Funding: WHO

India is critical to the global fight to end an epidemic of tuberculosis by 2030 and must step up funding to control the disease, the World Health Organisation said, citing...

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Environment

China Is Tapping Tibetan Glaciers To Meet Growing Demand For Bottled Water

Driven both by convenience and concerns about the country's widespread pollution, the Chinese drank nearly 10.6 billion gallons of bottled water in 2013, the Hong Kong-base...

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Thought Factory

The Subdued Whispers Of Posterity In Fallout

The world stood still as J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb quoted from a passage of the Bhagvad Geeta where Krishna reveals himself to Arjuna “I ha...

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