TBI Blogs: Meet Odisha’s New Generation of Young Tribal Women: Trained, Ambitious, Fearless

It is not every day that one sees girls training to become mechanics. But 16 teenage girls from Odisha’s far-flung Gajapati district came out recently to take the tra...

India’s Dowry Culture

In virtually every corner of the globe women are denied basic human rights, beaten, raped, and killed by men. This happened yesterday, it is happening right now, and it wil...

Desert 'fog catchers' make water out of thin air

Fog harvesting was devised in South America in the 1980s and there are active projects in various countries including Chile, Peru, Ghana, Eritrea, South Africa and Californ...

Black Mirror Advert 'Netflix Vista' A New Mini-Episode

Season three of Black Mirror is quite terrifying, depicting various dystopian futures, some frighteningly close to our own reality (“Shut Up and Dance” in parti...

Freedom Business Offers Indian Sex Workers Alternative To Red Light District

An Indian quilt and bag company which employs women trapped in the sex trade has appointed two former sex workers to its board, its co-founder said, calling the move a firs...

Plants Appear To Be Trying To Rescue Us From Climate Change

For decades, we’ve been pumping billions of tons of harmful greenhouse gases into the air, and for decades plants have been obligingly sucking it back out again. In f...

Why Le Bataclan Was Right To Open, And Why We Need To Keep Celebrating Live Music

On 13 November 2015, at around 8.55pm, a friend nudged my side and whispered that something was happening in Paris.We were at the Roundhouse, one of the most iconic music v...

11 Times The Simpson's Accurately Predicted The Future

Sixteen years ago, an episode of "The Simpsons" predicted that Donald Trump would one day become US president.

And this wasn't the only time the writers had m...

Activist revisits prison diaries

In a session at the Times Celebrate Bandra Festival, activist Arun Ferreira, who was branded a 'Naxalite' by the state and charged with sedition before being acquitted of a...