Asian cities to be worst hit by climate change.

Governments are finding it difficult to cope with the swelling population Fast-growing cities in Asia will be the worst affected by climate change because of their swelling...

WISH joins Gates Foundation to highlight maternal care as global priority

The World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH), an initiative of Qatar Foundation announced, a joint effort with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to release a report ...

Viacom18 pledges support to preserve legacy of Indian Cinema

India’s fastest growing media network, Viacom18has partnered with the Film Heritage Foundation, to save India’s cinematic heritage. As a step towards this cause...

The false vaccine debate shows we’re in a golden age of believing whatever we want

As Georgia becomes the latest US state to report a case of measles, many across the land are shaking their heads in disbelief. How can otherwise intelligent, well-intention...

WATCH OUT FOR MAHA ACTION

What?s interesting on television is the presence of authentic firang actors playing firang roles. Earlier, Tom Alter was invariably cast as the foreign hand in Hindi films;...

Maternal deaths come down by 11 points

PATNA: Bihar has registered a decline of 11 points in the maternal mortality rate between 2011- 13. According to figures released by Registrar General of India this week, 2...

OF MISOGYNY, MENTAL HEALTH, STORYTELLING AND ALL INDIA BAKHCHOD!

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius - and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. ~ Marilyn Monroe

It has now been a long time that I ...

Is It Time To Take Science Out Of The Climate Change Debate?

Scientists tell us the world is warming and that a climate catastrophe is imminent. They?re probably right. Yet climate change framed by scientists, politicians and economi...

Lifting the Curtain on Mental Health

“Mental health and well-being are fundamental to our collective and individual ability as humans to think, emote, interact with each other, earn a living,...