Beyond Pink and Blue!

When a baby is born, the obstetrician announces “It’s a boy” or “It’s a girl.” As babies, children learn to categorize everyone as eithe...

Changing Gender Roles Across Professions In India

In Fe-mail 2, Egyptian author Amy Mowaki adds her voice to the many who have spoken of and against gender disparity, when she writes “…if I have a daughter I w...

ZMCL’s English News Channel To Launch In Feb–Mar: Subhash Chandra

Subhash Chandra-promoted Zee Media Corporation Ltd (ZMCL) is planning to launch its proposed English news channel towards the end of the current fiscal. “The channel ...

Novel Antibody That Efficiently Attacks HIV Virus

The researchers from California Institute of Technology have discovered a new antibody that can make it easier to detect and neutralize HIV virus in an infected patient. Pr...

Why Is India Dragging Its Heels Over The Criminalisation Of Marital Rape?

When I started looking into the issue of marital rape in India, I soon realised how difficult it would be to get anyone to talk. It is a touchy subject, because there is st...

Mirrors: Capturing And Recording The Collective Consciousness Through Media

In the recent wake of the Yakub Memon case, opinions have been polarized creating a rift, a schism of thought and identity has manifested in the nation’s collective c...

The Plan To Beam The Web To 3 Billion Unconnected Humans

ONE OF THE best things about the web is that it’s interactive. You communicate with friends and family, publish your own site, and leave comments on other people&rsqu...

VICTIMS, WOMEN & THE LANDED VOICELESS

So here?? the thing!

As I entered home this evening, my housekeeper Leela Lhama opened the door, as usual.

She normally takes my laptop bag from my hand and...

TRADITION - BOON OR BANE

Tradition is a word that almost all Indians have grown up hearing. "India is a land of tradition", "our traditions date back to the earliest forms of civilisation", are jus...