Tribal Communities Protest Changes In Jharkhand Land Laws

Land right activists claim that recent amendments make it easier for land sharks to grab tribal land.Last year in May, when the Jharkhand government announced to remove han...

500,000 Pieces Of Space Junk Are Orbiting The Earth.

Humans have a real knack for leaving their mark wherever they go. Thanks to the curiosity of the human mind and our grand ambitions, this trait is no longer just relegated ...

India’s Solar Capacity Expands By Record 5,525.98 MW, Doubling Growth

In the last year, 2016-17, the country’s solar energy capacity expanded by a record 5,525.98 MW. According to reports released by the Ministry of New and Renewable En...

Poojita Chowdhury: The Accidental Filmmaker

Interview With Poojita Chowdhury

Our creative director, Shiv Bhalla caught up with Poojita Chowdhury, whose film ‘Gender Bender’ has been making waves. ...

Giving Birth In Air Strikes: The Life-Threatening Horrors Of Pregnancy In Yemen

Horeh was five months pregnant with her second child when an airstrike destroyed her uncle's house in the Amran Governorate in western Yemen. "It was very loud," the 30 yea...

Why 12.1 mn Divyaang Are Illiterate

At the launch of the government's Accessible India Campaign in December 2015, Prime Minister Narendra Modi suggested the term "divyaang" -- which translates into "divine bo...

Massive 3-D Cell Library Teaches Computers How To Find Mitochondria

GRAHAM JOHNSON IS an artist with a curious muse: the human cell. He’s the Matisse of mitochondria, the Goya of the Golgi apparatus. Twenty years ago he graduated from...

MTV: Bold, Sensitive

In 1995, Ashish Balram Nagpal, an art connoisseur, made a film called Adha Adhura which was way too progressive. In the film, Ashish Balram Nagpal, a billionaire businessma...

Savage Harvest

The picture of the little Syrian boy washing up dead on a Turkish beach had woken the world up to the tragedy of the country. People who follow the news, know about the hor...