World Environment Day: How are the Stars saving the Environment?

June 5 marked World Environment Day - a day dedicated to generating awareness regarding the threats lurking ove...

The Fish You Eat May Contain Plastic Microparticles

A day or two ago my Twitter feed was filled with tweets from WWF, Dodo and the UN with headlines which said: "B...

The Changing Face of the Shopping Paradiso, London’s Oxford Street

If it’s London, it’s Oxford Street, that manic shopping centre where the stilleto-heeled trot by st...

Brookings India Attempts to Decode NFHS-4

The 2015-16 National Family Health Survey (NFHS) is a large-scale, multi-round survey conducted in a representa...

This Mother’s Day Help the Moms in Crisis

Last Sunday was Mother's Day. You would probably know about it, thanks to the zillion social media posts that w...

LifeStraw to provide Clean Water to Kenyan Kids

According to a joint report by the World Health Organization and UNICEF, across the world, 844 million people l...

Simple Compassion for the Dying: Lessons from Palliative Care Providers

Dr. M. R. Rajagopal, a leading advocate of palliative care, known as India’s “Father of Palliative ...

One Person in the World develops Dementia every 3 Seconds...

Someone in the world develops dementia every 3 seconds. There were an estimated 46.8 million people worldwide living with dementia in 2015 a...

Gender Inequality: Pressure is on the Men Too

"There are far more incentives for women to act masculine than there are for men to act feminine."

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