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Three Births

Dawlen Tirkey, a nurse in one of India’s poorest and least developed states, had decided that she and her husband could afford to have just one child.
Their son,...

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Shrinking India Is Pushing The North Pole Towards London

Groundwater levels on the Indian subcontinent have been so badly depleted by climate change, intensive irrigation and population growth that it has caused the Earth to tilt...

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15 Films To Anticipate At The 15th Tribeca Film Festival

“How to make sense of the Tribeca Film Festival” was the altogether appropriate headline of the New York Times previewof the Tribeca Film Festival. Even as the festival...

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Transforming The Walls Of Varanasi With Stunning Murals

“I got a job in Banaras in 2007. When you first come to the city you feel there are so many dirty and unorganisedplaces that the government is not taking care of. After w...

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Kaleidoscope : The Family Plot

Jeffrey Archer is one of the world’s most popular writers, and has noted in his several visits to India that even the pirates love to flog his books. The Indian editi...

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Will Work With India To Realise Ambedkar’s Vision: Un

Describing B.R. Ambedkar as a global “icon” for marginalised people, a top UN official has voiced the world body’s commitment to working closely with Indi...

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These Cannabis Growing Nuns Answer To A Higher Power

When photographers Shaughn Crawford and John DuBois heard about two feminist nuns growing cannabis, they knew they wanted to get it on camera. The photographers tracked dow...

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Global Studies Reveal Health Financing Crisis Facing Developing Countries

Two major studies published in The Lancet reveal the health financing crisis facing developing countries as a result of low domestic investment and stagnating international...

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Securing Our Societies From The Threat Of Senseless Terrorism

Since 2000, we have witnessed a more than ten-fold increase in the number of deaths from violent extremism and terrorism - from 3,329 victims in 2000 to 32,685 in 2014. And...

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The World's Largest Coal Company Just Filed For Bankruptcy

The world's largest coal company filed for bankruptcy Wednesday, citing a "historically challenged" market for its carbon-intensive fuel.
Peabody Energy is the third o...

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