Kaleidoscope - Honesty Or Racism?

It’s a hot topic right now—millions of refugees from Islamic countries flocking to Europe and tilting the population balance. Already, prophets of doom are pred...

Scientists Think Intelligent Life Could Have Evolved Before Brains

Today, French scientists took a poke at humans’ intellectual hegemony by demonstrating, for the first time ever, that a single-celled organism without a brain or nerv...

India Must Close The Gender Gap And Make Every Woman Count

In India, the gender gap — the differences between women and men, especially as reflected in social, political, intellectual, cultural, or economic attainments or att...

Arun Shourie speaks on - Public discourse in India today, and what we can do about it

Mr Shourie is one of the few great public intellectuals of the country. He talks to and debates at Manthan for the third time.
Those who have heard him earlier at Mant...

Democracy's Dirty Word

- Is politics overtaking India's inherent humanism?

Why have we become so intolerant of the term "intolerance"? Crisscr...

Aversion To Androgyny

Man’s contempt for that which he cannot understand is well documented throughout recorded history. Witch hunts, crusades, holy wars, inquisitions, imperialism and civ...

THE FILM & TV INDUSTRY DECLARES A STRIKE!

THE FILM & TV INDUSTRY DECLARES A STRIKE!

We were hoping to avoid this, and did our damdest for that, but unfortunately, in the face of demeaning obduracy, we f...

SUSTAINABILITY V/S EYEBALLS

It’s incredibly shocking when in the midst of a serious discussion among family and friends about what one can do to make our world a better place to live in for all,...

Abstract Property: Imperialism of Ideas

Science and religion have been polarized over the issue of consciousness since time immemorial. Science attributes this fundamental function of our species to tiny volts of...