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

DTE recommends: What to read, watch, do

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 …

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

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? 

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Languages are becoming extinct much faster than species. The digital divide can make it worse

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 …

Union Budget 2019-20: Status quo remains for children

Allocation needed to be increased after being nearly stagnant for years

Teens have less face time with their friends – and are lonelier than ever

US teens started spending more time with their friends as smartphone usage surged

World Diabetes Day: Family key for its detection & prevention

The theme for World Diabetes Day 2018 and 2019 is family and diabetes

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&…

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

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 

‘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

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

COVID-19 lockdown desperation: Odisha migrants take sea route to return

Workers risk rough seas in cramped boats to return homes

Look back at the decade: Youth unrest

What explains the restlessness that marked the second decade of the new Millenium.

These eggs are low cholesterol, rich in omega 3 fatty acids

Entepreneurs experiment with hen feed to produce eggs that appeal to fitness freaks