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Languages are becoming extinct much faster than species. The digital divide can make it worse
The science of parkour, the sport that seems reckless but takes poise and skill
Science can help you practise better parkour – through running up walls more efficiently, and expanding your landing options
Tuberculosis India-2014
Tuberculosis is no longer a disease afflicting only the poor. Its thrives on deprived/distorted lifestyle and on the offshoots of the so-called …
Dilip Kumar: The star of substance who always shadowed his society
The politics of development would always need a popular narrative of development; Dilip Kumar used his star power to build that narrative
International Women’s Day: ‘Next, I will build a pucca house and beauty parlour’
With Trickle Up’s seed grant, a lot of women in Jharkhand’s Pakur opted for agricultural practices. But Golapi chose to run a …
Gandhi at 150: A contemporary fable
Gandhi’s personal lifestyle choices are not what make him crucial to the future of our species. What matters more is to understand why …
DTE recommends: What to read, watch, do
Here's all about a book on the heroic fishermen of the 2018 Kerala floods, documentary film on large-scale mining, photo exhibition in the US and more
Here's all about a book on climate change and on Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, a television series on world’s worst nuclear disaster …
Che Guevara: The face that launched a thousand…
Testimony to the efficacy and vitality of images manifests in what they appear to do, what people do as a result, what they expect the form to …
Diseases of a lifestyle: the transition to avoid
Can we not go from being poor but unhealthy to being rich and healthy? Why should we inherit diseases that can be junked?
Students protest cases nearly doubled between 2014 and 2018, shows NCRB data
Kerala still continues to top list but Haryana, UP, Bihar, Himachal account for 40% incidents
‘Workers must have a right to digitally disconnect’
The Global Commission on the Future of Work calls for new sets of regulations and rights in digital work era
Portrait of Hemi Pomara as a young man: how we uncovered the oldest surviving photograph of a Māori
With the recent urgent debates about how we remember our colonial past, and moves to reclaim indigenous histories, stories such as Hemi Pomara&…
Ode to the poem: why memorising poetry still matters for human connection
Internalising a poem need not be a rote process. Done right, in fact, it is an intellectual exercise that illuminates the structure and logic of …
Angkor Wat archaeological digs yield new clues to its civilization’s decline
By looking at the events associated with one particular temple, archaeologists are able to see a microcosm of some of the broader regional …
Big gods came after the rise of civilisations, not before, finds study using huge historical database
A massive database, named after Seshat, the Egyptian goddess of record keeping, is helping researchers
Heart disease risk is more in wealthy and urbanised states
States that are wealthier and more urban on an average have a higher risk of heart disease incident within a decade, shows a new study
Kindred spirit
Stephen R Bown retells the expeditions of a fearless explorer Knud Rasmussen, which provide us a benchmark to measure changes in Inuit culture. …
Rite of passage
At its heart, Killa is essentially a coming-of-age movie shot beautifully
India’s diabetes epidemic just got more grim; Lancet report reveals why
High prevalence of diabetes & lack of infrastructure in rural India could accelerate obesity, prediabetes epidemic, notes study
From Charles Dickens to woolly mammoths: Great long reads of 2020
Here are some stories of innovation and pure joy, intensely personal journeys as well as in-depth, data driven analysis
Why we studied proverbs to understand emotion among Ghana's Akan people
They contain valuable cultural information that symbolises a specific society’s uniqueness
Odisha’s artisans strike gold with golden grass
Handicrafts made from the wild grass are helping change lives in Kendrapara and Jagatsinghpur, providing people with a steady source of income
How centuries of self-isolation turned Japan into one of the most sustainable societies on Earth
The people of Edo Period Japan lived with time as it changed with the seasons, cherished materials and used the wisdom of reuse as a matter of …
Burden of safety: Public buses need to work for women
Women’s everyday travels put the burden of manufacturing the experience on them, when they should be tapped into building a more …