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Human Rights

Reliving The Summer Of Love

California’s summer calendar is packed with events commemorating 50 years of the hippie revolution of 1967 I am in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury neighbourhood, lo...

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Sustainable Development

Kofi Annan: On The Pictures That Capture Our Choking Planet

We are running out of space. Fly over Africa at night and you will see mile after mile of fires burning red in the dark as scrub is removed to make way for human beings. Satel...

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Environment

The "Chamgadars" Of Devbhoomi

Chamgadarh? Woh toh yahan nahi hote (Bats? You don’t find them here),” a villager said matter-of-factly. His friend added, on a more scientific note, “Yahan ...

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Gender

Manipur: Indian School Girls Drag Broken Down Bus Uphill

A photograph of Indian schoolgirls dragging a bus uphill in slippery mud after it broke down has gone viral, with Twitter users citing it as an example of true “girl pow...

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Health

A Pinprick To Detect Cancer

While the humble blood test has for long been the touchstone to catch diabetes, malaria and HIV, companies are now drawing on knowledge from human genetics to make blood tests...

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Human Rights

Water Rights Are Civil Rights & Civil Rights Are Human Rights

An April 20, 2017 press conference in Atlantic City, New Jersey was held to protest the state's planned privatization of the city's water utility company and to advocate for i...

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Sustainable Development

Small Flying Cars Come A Bit Closer To Reality

“YOU may smile, but it will come,” said Henry Ford in 1940, predicting the arrival of a machine that was part-automobile and part-aeroplane. For decades flying car...

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Environment

How To Save The World's Most Trafficked Mammal

Many people in the West have never even heard of the pangolin, yet this “scaly anteater” is the source of a billion-dollar criminal industry that threatens to push...

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Gender

The Best Advise 11 Inspiring Women Would Give To Their College Selves

"You’re not even an engineer — why are you so involved in the movement to advance women in tech?” This is a question I’ve been asked multiple times sin...

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Health

Hard Questions About Indian Healthcare

It is heartening that healthcare issues are receiving political attention—but current policy measures are lacking India’s top politicians rarely make influential p...

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ALTERNATIVE ENTERTAINMENT: WHEN PHANTOM INDIA WAS GHOSTED

Khalid Mohamed assesses the now accessible 1969 documentary, Phantom India, helmed by th...

November 4 2025

TV: WHEN FRAGRANCE BECAME THE TEACHER

In its first edition, Surabhi Diaries by Suhail Tatari revisits the beloved 1990s TV phe...

November 2 2025

KALEIDOSCOPE: THROUGH CONFLICT, TRUTHS STAND TALL

My own encounter with the book has been a unique reader-experience, writes Aparajita Kri...

November 1 2025