California dreaming
California is famous for environmental awareness campaigns. Last month, the government banned the purchase of sports utility vehicles by the state.…
Website review: http://www.indiastat.com
From the minutest details of India's administrative set-up to statistics on villages, this A - Z compendium is a treasure house for academics, …
Baby food ad market alive
When the amendment to the Infant Milk Substitutes, Feeding Bottles and Infant Foods Act 1992 banned advertising and promotional activity for …
Why social media health check must include Global South
There is plenty of evidence showing how social media use can affect youth mental health but studies often omit the developing countries of the …
How IT Threatens Democracy
Social media could be just the start of a slippery slope leading to an Orwellian world controlled by Big Data Brother
The Paralympics is changing the way people perceive disabilities
People with disabilities are less restricted by their own impairments than by the barriers put on them by the society
The war of the footprints
As satellites proliferate over the Indian sky and competitors wrangle a bigger share of the market, Doordarshan gears up to....
Gifted writers
The life of a journalist on the motoring beat is replete with foreign trips, cash and expensive gifts, all in exchange of a slippery pen
Website review: electronetwork.org
If you thought of electromagnetism as something that only served to light up your home and run a thousand gadgets, think again. Our reality, be …
Website review: www.arkive.org
"It is the Noah's Ark for the Internet era" -- claims the site. The comparison may not, in some respects, be completely unjustified. ARKive is a …
A different picture
Is it a mere coincidence that Jamie Foxx and Moesha, tv shows with predominantly African American cast and audience, feature more overweight …
Village Forest -- with Draft Rules Under Sec 28 of Indian Forest Act 1927
Millions of Indian villagers today act as guardians of forests, forming a mutually beneficial relationship, quite often without outside help. But …
Chinese ritual - Homage online
Chinese government departments have devised a rather strange solution to the problem of congestion and traffic jams. They have requested mourners …
Tiger's new friends
The Kids for Tigers initiative of the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH), in collaboration with Sanctuary magazine and …
Deliberate poisoning
Will a study induce government to check contamination of waterbodies by arsenic from coalmines?
Tales of friendship and betrayal
Documentary series>> First Australians • Written and produced by Rachel Perkins • Seven episodes
Want to delete your social media, but can’t bring yourself to do it? Here are some ways to take that step
A 2021 meta-analysis found a small positive association between depressive symptoms and social media use
Under the Sal Tree—theatre of nature
Under the Sal Tree theatre festival is a unique concept where plays are organised inside a Sal forest in Assam's Goalpara district. This is an eco-…
A photographer's exposure to reality
At the end of each photo-journalistic journey I make, it finally comes down to this -- those first moments of nervous discovery. It was then that …
Book review: HIV/AIDS and Traditional Medicine
Indian systems of medicine could receive a big boost if they could yield a cure for just one major disease. And, theoretically, there can be a …
Green Oscar Awards
Raman Sukumar, founder-director of the Bangalore-based Asian Elephant Research and Conservation Centre, has been selected for the prestigious …
Toyota pays up
Toyota Motor Corp will spend US $34 million to finance the improvement of anti-pollution controls on old, publicly-owned buses in the US even …
Website Review: http://www.wotr.org
The concept of water harvesting is catching like wild fire across the length and breadth of the nation. For those interested in knowing more …
Kalpana Chawla—a mission becomes impossible
In all the media hype, the legacy left behind by the Columbia (STS-107) crew was almost forgotten–a wealth of information gathered from …
Extractive industries review
An independent review the World Bank commissioned wishes the Bank to stop funding all coal and oil mining projects in developing countries, …