Environmentalism Used To Be About Defending The Wild, Not Anymore

We’re domesticating areas instead of protecting them. Living without technology I’ve found my place in the natural world – and this path could be our salv...

Google Mobile Quest May Lead To Android, Chrome Merger

The tech giant has plans to meld its software for personal computers with its popular Android software for smartphones and tablets, according to a new report. The bottom li...

Of A Biased Media, Yakub Memon And Baby Crows!

So as I walked into the elevator that would take me to my apartment on the 7th floor after work last evening, in walked with me a lady well over 75 years of age.

I ...

TECHNOLOGY AND THE MEDIA

“Give me liberty to know, to utter and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties”, thundered John Milton in his famous Areopagitica, his essa...

India, A Victim Of E-Waste Crime

Much of the 40 million tonnes of electronic waste produced around the world — old smartphones, TVs, laptops and obsolete kitchen appliances — finds its way ille...

Bihar Mukhiyas To Get Smart Phones, Internet-savvy Assistants To Improve Work Efficiency

Move will cut frequent travel to government offices to get schemes sanctioned and will improve monitoring, says Panchayati Raj minister Village heads or mukhiyas in Bihar w...

True Review: Gang of Ghosts

GANG OF GHOSTS – THE MOST ENTERTAINING GHOSTS HAVE ARRIVED

RATING: 4 stars

Welcome back Satish Kaushik in the Direct...

3 Screens and The Missing 4th “R”

Screens surround us, and our children.

First of all there is the big screen, with its larger than life images, with its tinsel moorings, colors and the celebrities ...

Small concerns: The Local train

There local train platform is filled with people as I reach it around 8.30 am every day.  Carrying laptops, handbags and lunchboxes, everyone is set for the day. Newsp...