March for the Environment

In the wake of Donald Trump's election as President of the United States, it is likely that the Environmental Protection Agency, which has promoted clean air and safe drink...

What Do We Want the Future to Be?

Sometime in late June of 2011, I sat down at a Thai restaurant in Williamsburg with then-deputy editor Sean Yeaton. I'd been badgering him for months over email to give me ...

With This Low-Cost Arsenic Water Filter, An IIT Kharagpur Professor Wants To Helps Lakhs Of Indians

In 2004, Sirshendu De, a professor at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, started to work towards saving those from underprivileged backgrounds in West Bengal ...

After Her Husband’s Death, Shanno Begum Defied Odds to Become Delhi’s First Woman Uber Driver

“My name is Shanno Begum from Delhi.”

Thus begins a video telling the story of an extraordinary woman who overcame the impossible to become the first wo...

India Needs To Fight Maternal Mortality With A Sense Of Urgency

Healthy India is certainly a possibility by aligning proper mother and child care with universal health coverage, which is a long-term objective for India. To achieve this,...

Women and Work

“Historic imbalances in power relations between men and women, exacerbated by growing inequalities within and between societies and countries, are leading to greater ...

Village Of Bachelors Carves Out A Road To Welcome Its First Bride

On the last day of February this year, Ajay Kumar Yadav brought his bride home to a hero’s welcome. That is because, Neetu, his wife, was the first to marry someone f...

Miami Film Festival Shines A Spotlight On Haiti

When filmmaker Owsley Brown set out to explore Haitian identity through music, he assumed it would take a couple of years. Never, however, did he imagined it would be 10. B...

Solo Power

Alyque Padamsee’s Broken Images, starring Shabana Azmi, the English version of Girish Karnad’s Kannada original Odakalu Bimba completed 101 shows recently.
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