This Gandhian Organisation Has Rehabilitated More Than 2,000 Vulnerable Women Over 25 Years

Vasavya Mahila Mandali (VMM) is an NGO based in Vijaywada, Andhra Pradesh. It was founded by former Member of Parliament, Chennupati Vidya, in 1969. While working at Gandhi...

Why The Nobel Prize Winning Discovery Of Autophagy Matters

Nobel laureate Yoshinori Ohsumi’s work on mechanisms underlying autophagy — a fundamental process of degrading and recycling cellular components — has gen...

‘Empowering Women To Facilitate Human Development’

KOLKATA: In the conference titled "Jaagruti- EmpoweringWomen to Facilitate Human Development" organized by the Indian Chamber of Commerce in Kolkata, Pande said women are c...

Unsurprisingly, Gender Neutral Textbooks Make For Better Students

Last week, two researchers at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm (KTH) presented a study that suggests gender-neutral course literature help...

'Affection' Is An Uplifting New Play About HIV

Six years ago, theatre director Ben Buratta started an unusual collective called Outbox Theatre. Consisting solely of LGBTQ performers, they hold workshops with youth group...

WHO Develops Electronic Solution To Child, Maternal Deaths

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has developed an electronic solution using hospital-based study on 10,000 pregnant women in Nigeria and Uganda to reduce the high labour...

Kaleidoscope - Two To Tango

A new play Mr & Mrs Murarilal has a middle-age man and woman - played by SatishKaushik and Meghna Malik - have a romantic rendezvous in a park.

They have a defi...

How A Group Of Men In Agra Are Working To Empower Women & Stop Domestic Violence

Till about a year ago, Sunita used to detest spending time with her husband. She says, “On most nights he would be drunk and the alcohol brought out the animal in him...

Wikileaks Is Making A Twitter 'Army' To Fight Against 'Misinformation'

Wikileaks is forming a so-called “Task Force” made up of volunteers to fight back online against critics and correct potential factual inaccuracies about the si...