The Sound Of Junk – Dharavi’s Rag Picking Children Are Making Music Out Of The Trash They Collect

Every day, Mumbai sees – yet ignores – thousands of rag-pickers who go about collecting trash from beaches, railway platforms, and other public places. This hug...

Snakes In The Living Room!

Snakes In The Living Room!I can’t believe this that our desi news channels have no clue about geographic locations in

various cities. Take for example, early ...

Femme Very Fatale

There have been dangerous women in popular fiction, a few serial killers too, but Jodie Danforth is in a class apart. It is a generalisation, perhaps unfair, that women are...

Educated Village Youth Are Turning Paralegals To Help Landless Rural Folk In Telangana

Poorly educated and with few resources, Kanasari Veeraswami had no way of proving he was the lawful owner of a small plot of land left to him by his father in the southern ...

A Mother’s Nightmare That Is Bihar

One factor that is totally ignored in all deliberations on women’s empowerment is the role of high quality healthcare. Education, jobs and bank accounts remain the th...

A Higgs Boson Scientist Created A Fertility App That's As Effective As The Pill

Over the past century or so, women have increasingly gained access to a growing range of family-planning options that are much more reliable than the ages-old “r...

Scientists Are Testing Out Nanoparticles That Can Stop Cancer In Its Tracks

The future is here; We now live in a world where researchers can send tiny, manmade particles into the body to blast apart cells that help cancer spread. Well, at least in ...

Women Directors Are Everywhere, But Film Festivals Are Still Catching Up — NYFF

The following essay was written by a participant in the 2016 New York Film Festival Critics Academy, a workshop for aspiring critics co-produced by IndieWire, the Film Soci...

IIT Students Come Together To Set Up A Library For 250 Village Kids

As a child, many of us liked to curl up in a corner with a nice, big book in our hands and just be lost in that world for hours on end. Just like us, there are children acr...