This Year, Carnival To Ensure Gender Justice

KOCHI: Over the past 32 years, Cochin Carnival has become one of the most important events in Fort Kochi’s festival calendar. But it has long been considered male dom...

Deepika Padukone As Bhansali’s Mastani Is A True Role Model For Gender Equality

Perhaps one of the most glaring, disturbing symbols of the regressive patriarchy inherent in our traditions is our treatment of the Indian widow. She has been forced to end...

Launch Of Inactivated Polio Vaccine In India

India, once considered the most difficult place in the world to stop polio, will celebrate five years without a case this January. But our fight against the disease is not ...

NASA Probes Giant Magnetic Explosions Around Earth

The interplay of these electrically charged particles creates what is considered to be a fourth state of matter called plasma. Plasma, which makes up 99 percent of the visi...

Her Name Was Gauhar

There is little documentation about India’s great performing artistes and even less about the women.

The tawaifs, despite their talent and refinement had the ...

2015: The year of heroines in Bollywood

Be it Deepika Padukone’s role as independent but hassled daughter in ‘Piku’ or Kangana Ranaut’s double avatar as Tanu/Datto in ‘Tanu Weds Manu...

196 Countries Approve Historic Paris Global Warming Accord

The world on Saturday got a historic climate deal with all 196 countries approving the Paris text that got unprecedented support from all quarters.  It will ...

196 Countries Approve Historic Paris Global Warming Accord

The world?on Saturday?got a historic climate deal with all 196 countries approving the Paris text that got unprecedented support from all quarters.? It will formally be sig...

Climate Change Is Killing Us, Literally — And Here’s How

Climate change may be bad for people but it's good for bugs. Germs of all kinds, as well as mosquitoes and other disease carriers, will live longer in warmer weather becaus...