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Environment

'Link Up Public Health With The Climate Change Agenda'

The global health and climate community met in Paris last week to highlight the insidious link between health and climate change and demand more explicit recognition of thi...

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Bollywood

R Madhavan Goes On A Tree Planting Spree This Monsoon

R Madhavan, who wholeheartedly supports organic farming and even encourages fans to grow atleast one vegetable, to understand the hardship and plight of a farmer, is also d...

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Human Rights

Rape On Stage: Hard To Stomach But Its Depiction Might Help Society To Wake Up To Rape Culture

“He lifted me off the floor, pulled up my knickers. He spent some time rearranging me I remember. He smoothed my hair back off my face. Be our little secret, baby Lea...

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Health

Need For A Robust Steel Framework For Health In India

The latest edition of Unicef’s State of the World’s Children report suggests that 1.2 million children under the age of five died of totally preventable disease...

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Kaleidoscope

Kaleidoscope - Precious Friendships

Two books about enduring friendships, both beautiful and heartwarming are very different—one about two female friends and the other about four male friends.  The...

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Sustainable Development

Only A Few Recharge The Ground Beneath Their Feet

Till 2006, Sea-Line Co-operative Housing Society, Khar, faced extreme water shortage a dry bore-well, water cuts and soaring water bills. Ten years later, when most of Mumb...

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Bollywood

Celebs Should Use Their Status To Help Society: Richa Chadha

“When you start a normal campaign, you might not get as much attention as you would get if a celebrity is attached to it. It is because a celebrity is always in the n...

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Gender

Ecological And Social Implications Of Trans And Climate Change

We are biological creatures, part of an ecosphere, living in communities. Like any other organism, our genetic code sets parameters within which we live. The ecosphere is g...

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Sustainable Development

Humans Are Now Causing Species To Artificially Evolve

But man-made ecological damage doesn’t always come in the form of extinctions. Instead of succumbing to the pressures of human activity, some species are rapidly evol...

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Sustainable Development

Light Pollution Is Throwing Off The Seasons

In a study published Tuesday in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, researchers describe how night-time light pollution is causing early budburst—emergenc...

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