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A silver lining: Quotes from the earth

Till very recently, it was taken for granted in India that film festivals were avenues, which encouraged critical voices. Selection committees …

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

Review: Four films on climate change

Climate change. Two words which hold, between them, some of the most complex as well as vigorously debated issues of all times. Changing Climates,…

Companies, business associations effective agents to counter climate change