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Transition failure
Author(s): Jitendra 
@jitendrachoube1 , Aparna Pallavi @AparnaPallavi1 , Akshay Deshmane @DeshmaneAkshay , Alok Gupta @alok227 , M Suchitra
@jitendrachoube1 , Aparna Pallavi @AparnaPallavi1 , Akshay Deshmane @DeshmaneAkshay , Alok Gupta @alok227 , M SuchitraIssue Date: Jun 30, 2013
Pedestrian questions
Issue Date: Jun 30, 2013
Have you ever noticed the footpath? Does it even exist? And if it does what is its height from the road? What should be the ideal height that allows for pedestrians to walk without fear of being run over or breaking a leg clambering onto it, while not allowing cars to park and take over this public space?
Nirbhaya on stage
Issue Date: Jun 15, 2013
Structural collapse
Author(s): Sayantan Bera @sayantanbera , Soma Basu @sbasu_in , Akshay Deshmane @DeshmaneAkshay , Avikal Somvanshi @
@sayantanbera , Soma Basu @sbasu_in , Akshay Deshmane @DeshmaneAkshay , Avikal Somvanshi @ Issue Date: Jun 15, 2013
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A rather ridiculous gap
Issue Date: May 31, 2013
Trademark disputes are the humdrum of intellectual property (IP) litigation. Important, no doubt, for the parties involved but hardly the stuff to get you and me excited. What all we have missed in recent times?
The Microsoft way
Issue Date: Apr 15, 2013
A favourite Bill Gates story is this. In 1998, the boss of Microsoft was talking to management students at the University of Washington to share his business philosophy. Here’s what he said then about piracy: “Although about three million computers get sold every year in China, people don’t pay for the software,” he said. “Someday they will, though.
No two-finger test for rape
Issue Date: Apr 15, 2013
IN the aftermath of protests against the Delhi gang rape case in December last year, the Union health ministry has drafted a new pro forma for forensic medical examination and treatment of sexually assaulted victims. The pro forma, issued in mid-March, has done away with the controversial two-finger test done by doctors to know the sexual history of the victim. The test, in which two fingers are inserted into the vagina to know its laxity, was being used as evidence against the victim by sugge sting she is “habituated to sex”.
Give landscape its due
Issue Date: Mar 31, 2013
What is the role of a landscape architect in building design?
Interviewee:
Ravindra Bhan
