Mosquito Maladies

The days when malaria could be called a fatal disease are past now, but we still have a long way to go.

Research towards combating the disease has evolved at a trem...

All-Women TV Channel Zan TV Makes Waves in Afghanistan

Zan TV, an all-women TV channel has been taking the Afghani media by storm. The first TV station to be made for, and run entirely by women, it consists of a team of 50 wome...

Opening Minds about Open Defecation

Open defecation, although, is on a decline worldwide, it is still widely practiced by 950 million open defecators in the world, 569 million of which are in India.

T...

Jane Goodall Institute Partners With War For The Planet Of The Apes Film To Help Chimps

In honor of the upcoming release of the new War for the Planet of the Apes, 20th Century Fox have teamed with the Jane Goodall Institute to provide care for rescued chimpan...

The Ballet Boys Of Mumbai

Sooni Taraporevala’s first virtual reality film captures the journey of two boys from Mumbai’s chawls to a ballet school in the US We first see Manish Chauhan, ...

Learning From Zoos: How Our Environment Can Influence Our Health

We are told that we are a nation of couch potatoes, lacking the will and the strength to turn around the obesity tanker. We all need a little help in our quest for a health...

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 ...

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...

Priyanka Chopra Dismayed By Child Sexual Abuse In Zimbabwe

Priyanka Chopra says she is dismayed by the level of sexual violence against children in Zimbabwe, with government officials there telling her many young girls are ‘a...