Guest Column

Finally, one of the most blatant practices of gender discrimination through the use of archaic, derogatory, and patriarchal words and language has been taken into cognizance, and remedial…

Morning hours are busy for any Omfed outlet. Customers pick up a loaf of brown bread after having their regular quota of tea. Little do customers realise that switching to brown bread from…

How would you feel if people you know wrote nice things about you but you couldn’t identify who wrote what? This is precisely how I felt 12 years ago and again last week. Before moving to…

Young minds keen on deeper knowledge on the functioning and processes of Indian democracy would have imbibed wrong lessons watching Parliament at work this monsoon session. Venerable…

Some of the most dangerous, depraved and damaging battles are fought not on the battlefields, but on women’s bodies. It doesn’t take much during conflicts and wars to turn women’s bodies…

Hold your horses. I am not going to discuss the kind of plant whose parts make some people get high and happy. The title is a bit misleading. This piece is about any plant growing where it…

Wikipedia is one of the top websites globally in terms of visitor numbers. The online encyclopedia, written and maintained by a community of volunteers, has become popular due to the…

Youth are the most important and dynamic segment of the population in any country. It is believed that developing countries with large youth population could see tremendous growth, provided…

Across the globe, urban planners are considered to be in the best public service profession. Just like medical science is there to take care of human beings' good health, urban planners find…

Democratic processes and the institutions that make liberal democracy sustainable have alienated people they are supposed to serve. They face, as this series of articles has pointed out, a…