Akshay Donates Rs 9 Lakhs To Family Of Jawan Whose Body Was Mutilated After Killing

Once more Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar has come to the aid of a family stricken by the death of a jawan in Jammu and Kashmir border. On November 22, suspected Pakistani tro...

We have a roadmap on antenatal care - now we need to deliver

A new publication by the WHO has produced 49 recommendations on antenatal care for a positive pregnancy experience. Death in pregnancy remains a scourge that we have the po...

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...

Hear Leonard Cohen's Final Interview: Recorded by David Remnik of the New Yorker

e’ve heard very few details about Leonard Cohen’s death this week, and that is by design. The Cohen family requested privacy for his funeral and received it. Wh...

Hear Leonard Cohen's Final Interview: Recorded by David Remnik of the New Yorker

We’ve heard very few details about Leonard Cohen’s death this week, and that is by design. The Cohen family requested privacy for his funeral and received it. W...

Do We Know What Our Children Want?

"There's always room for a story that can transport people to another place."

J.K. Rowling

Over the last one century or so, ordin...

Low Birth Weight And Premature Delivery Major Causes Of Newborn Deaths In India

The death of every other newborn in India can be traced to either low birth weight (LBW) or premature delivery. The death of every other newborn in India can be traced to e...

Why This Software Engineer Turned Artist From Bhopal Was Picked To Paint Scenes For A Film On Van Gogh

Van Gogh is easily one of the most reputed artists in the post-impressionist movement, which took root in France in the early 1920s. But the story of his tragic death is mo...

When Genetic Screening Goes Very, Very Wrong

Teenagers don't routinely drop dead of cardiac failure. As a cause of death among individuals aged 12 to 19, heart disease barely even rates, staking out a mere 3 perc...