Too Little, Too Late: Why Palliative Care Is Vastly Inadequate In India

Twenty eight-year-old Divya Devi placed her hands on her bloated belly, closed her eyes, and leaned her head back against a wall. A black hairband held her thinning hair to...

Dakota Fanning Lights Empire State Building With Save The Children

Save the Children Artist Ambassador Dakota Fanning lit the world-famous Empire State Building red on Tuesday, Oct. 11, in a special ceremony celebrating International Day o...

Abortion, Contraception, And Equality: Honoring 100 Years Of Reproductive Rights

October 16, 2016 marks the 100th anniversary of Planned Parenthood, an organization that has fought from its outset to ensure that women are...

Kaleidoscope - Maid For Mumbai

It may or may not be true of other cities, but Mumbai moves on tracks built partly by the bais, the domestic helpers, mostly from rural Maharashtra, who manage homes, so th...

True Review Television - Prime Time’s Little Thespian

During Navratri, a cable channel made capital with Falguni Pathak live all nine days at a venue in suburban Mumbai. The entrance must have been unimaginable, but judging fr...

Delay To Curbs On Toxic Shipping Emissions 'Would Cause 200,000 Extra Premature Deaths

A push by the shipping and oil industries for a five-year delay to curbs on toxic sulphur emissions would cause an extra 200,000 premature deaths from lung cancer and heart...

World Mental Health Week: Celebrity Advocates Of Mental Illness

Depression is a serious mental health condition which impacts a person both physically and mentally, and requires treatment. But there are a lot of stigmas attached to it. ...

India Needs To Develop A Strategy For Training Human Resources For Mental Healthcare

The emergence of suicide prevention as a public health challenge requiring urgent national action has been painfully slow globally. The urgency has been slower in middle- a...

Kaleidoscope - Two To Tango

A new play Mr & Mrs Murarilal has a middle-age man and woman - played by SatishKaushik and Meghna Malik - have a romantic rendezvous in a park.

They have a defi...