Streets Paved With Gloom

 A few years ago, there was a huge wave of workers going from Kerala to the Gulf countries in search of better prospects. It would not ...

With an endowment of $39.6 billion, and an annual grant support of about $4 billion, US-based Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) is one of the leading private found...

Underpaid, Untrained Workers Deployed To Fix India’s Ailing Health System

Ashas, who make about Rs 1,000 a month, are required to undergo a 23-day training spread across 12 months, but a third of the Ashas in a block in north Bihar were not train...

This Woman Just Figured Out How To Control Sperm With Her Brain

For transdisciplinary artist Ani Liu, working in science and technology has provided a way for her to explore the intersection between research, culture, and implications o...

Netflix Will Have To Suck It Up: Why The Cannes Film Festival Is Not Chill

The streaming giant has had a spoke in its wheel after protests over two of its Cannes films not being released in cinemas. But if it wants the kudos, Netflix will have to ...

Yigal Ozeri Paints Hyper-realistic Women Living In Nature Without Malice

The reaction to Yigal Ozeri's astonishing paintings, composed of thousands of tiny brushstrokes, has two elements to it. There's an immediate hit of 'holy shit, that's not ...

Papuas Gold Families: In Pictures

Around 13,000 people live off the tailings of the PT Freeport Indonesia goldmine in Papua. Photographer Vembri Waluyas visited the settlement on the Ajkwa river to document...

Last week, Google Doodle introduced billions of people to an incredible woman: Esther Nkulenu Ocloo, a Ghanaian entrepreneur, advocate for women, pioneer of microfinance an...

How Public Health Workers Are Preventing Violence Against Women & Girls In Rural Bihar

“Whose help can I ask? If I talk to another woman in the village, she can’t help. She faces the same thing at her home. I haven’t told anyone that he abus...