World schooling the new form of learning
By Lina Asher To start with a whole load of people will ask what world schooling is. I define it as homeschooling on the go: Educating your child through experiential learning whilst travelling in the…
Commentary
The small nation which beat the superpowers, global capitalism
By Vikas Datta There is one country that has militarily defeated the US — and that too on its own soil — stolen a march on both the US and USSR in space travel, severely…
Hillary in Trump lane: Baskets of bluff, bluster & baloney!
By Arun Kumar Washington, Sep 17 (IANS) Hillary Clinton thought she would borrow a leaf from Donald Trump’s book. Instead, she reached for a dictionary of insults and flung “half” of her presidential rival’s supporters…
More sanitation, literacy = fewer anaemic, pregnant women
By Charlie Moloney The proportion of anaemic, pregnant women dropped 12 percentage points over a decade to 2015, government health data show, but India still has more anaemic women than any other country and a…
Failure of governance – from Kashmir to Karnataka
By Amulya Ganguli Be it Kashmir or Karnataka, poor governance has been responsible for making a bad situation worse. Such administrative lapses are true of minor incidents of lawlessness as well like the antics of…
Alliance on the rocks, Kashmir may be heading for Governor’s Rule
By Sanjeev Srivastava With the Peoples Democratic Party’s Srinagar MP Tariq Hameed Karra quitting the party as well as his Lok Sabha seat, the countdown may well have begun for the PDP-BJP alliance in Jammu…
Bengaluru wastes nearly 50% of the water it gets from Cauvery
By Alison Saldanha As Karnataka continues its legal battle over the Cauvery, the states capital — almost entirely dependent on the river — wastes half the water it receives, according to an IndiaSpend analysis of…
Religious riots down in 2015, but other riots rise
By Abhishek Waghmare Religious tension in Ballabhgarh, Haryana, when 150 Muslims sought refuge in a police station; clashes between Hindus and Muslims during Ganesh festival processions in Belgaum, Karnataka; and riots over the birth anniversary…
Business needs and social good are in synergy
By Sajid Ahmed You want to help. Your heart is in the right place. You come with a pedigree. You are talented. You want to live with a spirit of generosity and integrity. Now what?…
One last bright spark of Lucknow’s glorious tradition
By Vikas Datta Any literary tradition demonstrates its virtuosity and vitality in how even its last proponents keep up its standards, even as the style itself is declining due to changes in the political and…
Zika heads for India, older strain lurks since 1952
By G.B.S..N.P. Varma A virulent version of the Zika virus that has swept the globe is headed for India, where an older, more benign strain is likely to be quietly residing within some Indians, possibly…
Had 9/11 not happened, would Daesh not have been spawned?
By John Bahadur Lamb “Never forget” is the oft repeated refrain used when talking about the attacks of September 11, 2001. Yet, it often seems an empty phrase brought out yearly for memorial services and…
Kashmir: New Delhi must seize the moment
By Amulya Ganguli After the failure of the all-party delegation to make any headway in Kashmir because of the refusal of the separatists to talk to the team, it is back to square one in…
Is technology a boon or bane for teenagers?
By Lina Ashar As an educator I am often asked: “Is technology a boon or a bane?” We need to understand that human beings are lazy by nature and would love it if other people…
Why the Indian establishment fears Kejriwal?
By Saeed Naqvi Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte admittedly has an uncontrollable temper, otherwise he would not have used a common Filipino term of abuse against President Obama: Putang ina, which means “son of a whore”….
Behind Karnataka’s anger: Rainfall deficits in 90% of state
By Prabhu Mallikarjunan Karnataka’s angst and anger over a Supreme Court (SC) order to release water of the Cauvery river to neighbour Tamil Nadu is rooted in the failure of the monsoon in the state,…
Nearly 60 million Indians suffer from mental disorders
By Prachi Salve At least 60 million Indians — a number more than the population of South Africa — suffer from mental disorders, even as the country lags the world in medical professionals and spending…
India needs 4 times defence budget to meet 2020 coal target
By Devanik Saha The government has estimated that by the year 2020, India will need 1.5 billion tonnes of coal. But an IndiaSpend analysis of a recent report by Brookings India indicates that even by…
Understaffed, underserved: Human problems of India’s public health system
Prateek Mittal & Vartika Singh On August 15, 2016, in his Independence Day address, Prime Minister Narendra Modi promised a safety net of up to Rs 100,000 for families who lived below the official poverty…
2,234 get HIV via blood transfusion; government claims ignorance
By Silvio Grocchetti As many as 2,234 people contracted the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) after receiving blood transfusions in hospitals between October 2014 and March 2016, according to data released by the National AIDS Control…