Climate change as a matter of public health

For a long time people perceived climate change as an environmental issue–the concern of environmentalists, the concern of a few. It was reframed as a justice issue a...

Is This Our Democracy?

While watching the show Satyamev Jayate hosted by Aamir Khan, running on Sunday mornings on Star Plus, last week, I began to feel faint.

Our acceptance of a flawed ...

Global warming could dry out a third of the Earth by 2100

Forget changing rain patterns — warmer temperatures alone could bring drought to a third of Earth’s land area by the end of the century. That’s the gist o...

Climate change will reduce crop yields sooner

Results from a new study co-authored by Netra Chhetri, a faculty member at the Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes at Arizona State University, show global warmin...

An Interview with Mr. Amit Khanna, Ex Chairman, Reliance Entertainment

In this Cafe Dissensus’ conversation, Mr. Amit Khanna talks about the Indian entertainment industry. Mr. Khanna had a distinguished career in the Hindi Film Industry ...

A Matter of Justice, Securing Human Rights in the Post-2015 Development Agenda

This article is a review of a report published by the Center for Economic and Social Rights and is a very good reading and reflection for those who want to have some insigh...

Seven unforgettable stories in the battle against sex trafficking, collected over two decades of my reporting

We think of slavery in terms of those sepia photographs in the history books, the horror that Abraham Lincoln helped end. That’s what I thought when I first reported ...

Global warming will reduce crop production by 2% every decade

Global warming will reduce the world’s crop production by up to two percent every decade and wreak $1.45 trillion of economic damage by the end of this century, accor...

Nuclear Plants To Power Sustainable Development

Forgotten is the shock and despair triggered by the Fukushima power plant disaster about two years ago. Nuclear power is here to stay. In fact, according to a consensus eme...