With an endowment of $39.6 billion, and an annual grant support of about $4 billion, US-based Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) is one of the leading private found...

A Scooter-Riding Bookseller Has Served Kolkatta Better Than Amazon Could Ever Hope To

From Vir Sanghvi to Aveek Sarkar, everyone is a fan of Tarun Kumar Shaw’s unique personal book home delivery service. If a book has been printed, and is in circulatio...

They're Not Seen As Human Beings: Life For Unmarried Mothers In Tunisia

Tunisia is often hailed as a progressive Arab country, where, according to US human rights watchdog Freedom House, “women enjoy more social freedoms and legal rights ...

In Pursuit Of Public Health

“Public health mandates extra-ordinary commitment and will from government machineries which require non-partisan dialogues. Politics and public health are two sides ...

Beautiful Resistance: Why Protest In All Art Matters

Recently I was at a dinner party of my peers, which is to say: Not Young People. (Thus far, most Generation Xers refuse to refer to themselves as middle-aged, though we sur...

5 Common Myths About Sustainability

Over the past 30 years there has been an increasing recognition of, and interest in, a concept often called "sustainability." Sustainability is a complex and sometimes chal...

New Method Can Selectively Remove Micro-pollutants From Water

Researchers have developed a new method for removing even extremely low levels of unwanted compounds from water. The new method relies on an electrochemical process to sele...

Here Comes The Science Bit: Why Music Festivals Are Going Geek

Festivals have long been cosmic experiences – havens of music and hedonism designed to whisk you away from reality for 72 hours. Of course, those mind-melting moments...

The French Film Exploring Life, Death & Inter-conectivity

Ahead of the release of her sweeping new drama, we spoke to Katell Quillévéré about being moved by ‘E.T’, dealing with A-list actors, and t...