Priorities

How Society Pays When Women's Work Is Unpaid

In countries around the world, the ways in which men and women spend their time are unbalanced. Men spend more time working for money. Women do the bulk of the unpaid work &md...

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Why India Needs Its Quack Doctors.

Toward the end of last year, reports emerged that the Liver Foundation, a health NGO in India’s West Bengal state, had started working with local quack doctors. The term...

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I Asked This Kid What She Wanted To Be When She Grew Up

"What do you want to be when you grow up?"When you ask a lot of kids this question, they usually have quick answers. They want to be doctors, artists, firefighter ... you name...

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Experience The Milky Way In High Resolution Over Multiple Wavelengths

About 90 percent of the global population lives north of the equator, so it’s no wonder that the Southern Hemisphere often gets short-shift. But when it comes to stunnin...

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New Material Lifts Technology From Desert Beetle, Harvests Water From Air

The global water scene should strike fear into the hearts of even the most privileged of middle-class Americans. There will be good years and there will be worse years, but th...

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Gender And Power Politics

A 2014 Inlaks scholarship to study the Yakshagana folk theatre form took Bangalore-based theatre practitioner SharanyaRamprakash to the esteemed Guru BannanjeSanjeevaSuvarna o...

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ICHR: India's First Hospital-linked Digital Platform for Keeping Children's Health Records Launched

Your child's health records will now be made available at a click of a button. India's first ever digital platform, the Integrated Child Health Record (ICHR), for keeping a ch...

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This App Is Helping Young Iranians Dodge the Morality Police

Anonymous developers in Iran are making people’s lives just a little bit easier with Gershad, an app that helps Iranians identify (and avoid) locations where officers of...

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Government Announces Digital Marketplace For Farmers

Imagine a digital marketplace for farmers, using which any farmer in any corner of the country can instantly sell their agri-products to any buyer, there by controlling the pr...

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Here's Why It's A Very Bad Idea To Wipe Mosquitoes Off The Face Of The Earth

It would be hard to find an insect more despised these days than the mosquito. The blood-sucking pest is considered more lethal to humans than any other animal in the world. I...

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STUDENT CITY PART 4

Written by Prof Dr Piyush Roy, Student City Part 4 revisits the emotional rivalries, cam...

May 14 2026

TWO POWERFUL THEATRE REFLECTIONS

Sohaila Kapur reflects on two compelling theatre experiences — the experimental st...

May 13 2026

THE STING BEHIND BOLLYWOOD PAPARAZZI

Khalid Mohamed, without being judgmental, reports on the love-hate relationship of the c...

May 12 2026