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Connecting India’s Villages with Successful Village Migrants
A rather common question asked amongst Indians on being acquainted with one another is regarding their “native place”; the village, town, or city that the ...
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Social Experiment: Underage Smoking in India
It’s a little surprising that the same people telling the child that smoking is poor for health have cigarettes in their hands! People need to ...
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Get Ready For The Rice Bucket Challenge
The ice bucket challenge put amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in the national spotlight. Everyone from George W. Bush to Lady Gaga participated. Even some Indians have ...
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Indians Think the Greatest Danger is Religious and Ethnic Hatred
According to a recent study published by the Pew Research Center, Indians think that Religious and Ethnic Hatred poses the greatest threat to the world. ...
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The Danger of Drug Tourism in India
Last week on Tuesday, local police found lifeless bodies of James and Alex Gaskell in Agra’s Hotel Maya, which is some four kilometers from the ...
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To Om Or Not To Om: The Controversy Over Yoga in the United States
Background Yoga is a growing activity in the United States with more and more individuals taking part in it every year. Largely, the new wave ...
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Sterilization or Safety? Family Planning Measures Lead to Death of 11 Women
Eleven women have died and over a dozen more are still in critical condition after being sterilized in a district hospital in Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh this week. ...
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Inderjeet Singh: Another Unsung Hero in The Plight Of Athletes
Nothing seems out of the blue when sportspeople, other than cricketers, complain about lack of support from the system. The cases range from dilapidated living ...
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India at Risk: Unhygienic Food Standards in The Country
Living in India has its own charm. Apart from other advantages, one very amusing plus-point is that your immune system will become very good. Living ...
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Water and Air: India Has a Pollution Problem
In a recent World Health Organization (WHO) report, it was revealed that New Delhi is the city with the highest amount of air pollution in the ...
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Social Change Partner: Basic Charitable Trust
The Problem All children are born equal. All lives have equal value. The above sentences dictate two of the most fundamental values of life, and ...
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The Red Market: Scott Carney’s Book on the Flesh Exchange in India
The Red Market, a brilliant book written by Scott Carney talks about the illegal trading of the human body and its parts carried out for ...
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Politics Over Mosquitos in Delhi
Modern Indian politics is based on a concept to mould any apolitical issue into a political one, failing to consider how delicate that issue could be. The recent case of ...
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Self Confidence is the Ultimate Motivation for Progress
Meaning of self confidence To believe in one’s abilities and potential is an essential ingredient to achieving success. It is quite natural to experience varying degrees of self esteem. A ...
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The Blood Barrier: The Qualms Keeping Us From Donating Blood
The term ‘blood donation’ at once sends images of needle pricks, blood bags, IV injections and the colour red spinning through our craniums. It is unfortunate to see that many ...
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Depression: Not Something People Just ‘Get Over’
Introduction When we think of the word ‘depression’, the image that comes to mind is usually that of a person who’s down in the dumps or melancholic. Over time, it’s ...
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Chennai Floods: The Devastation
The Day It All Started A city of 4.3 million people, Chennai faced the wettest November in a century this year. And December 1 probably broke all records with 490 ...
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Chennai Floods: The Aftermath
Death Toll Rising While the nation was busy debating over the subjects far less important, victims of Chennai floods died. 400 are dead so far and the toll is still ...
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The Odd-Even Formula: A Step in the Right Direction?
With less than 2 weeks to go for everyone to start out with their New Year Resolutions, the Delhi Government that has aimed for perhaps the most challenging of resolutions ...
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Kerala in Low Spirits: Liquor Ban
Introduction The state of Kerala has the highest alcohol consumption per capita in India, at more than 8 litres per person annually (against the national average of 5.7 litres per ...
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