The Saffire Experiment Will Study Real Fires in Microgravity

This combustible research project is slated for launch in 2016, and will be activated at a distance from the International Space Station to avoid, you know, setting our onl...

Environment, Development And The Paradox Of Progress

The wisdom of ancients was cast in proverbial stone when the Atharva Veda extolled believers to worship the environment, and consequently immortalized the message of preser...

The Subdued Whispers Of Posterity In Fallout

The world stood still as J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb quoted from a passage of the Bhagvad Geeta where Krishna reveals himself to Arjuna “I ha...

Years Of Living Dangerously: Merchants Of Doubt hiding An Inconvenient Truth

The Climate Change debate has been active for close to thirty years now. James E Hansen was the first scientist to expose to dangers of climate change when he decided to of...

Apathy, Waste And The Rhetoric Of Concern

Rafi Nagar, Deonar, Mumbai
April 2012

The auto-rickshaw stopped at the corner of the narrow road. A large mound of garbag...