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Social sciences refer to study of the society in a logical and scientific manner. In school, they draw content areas mainly from four disciplines -- history, geography, political science and...

How quickly things change! When we launched Corona Diaries on March 21, COVID-19 was still shaping into a pandemic. It had completed its cross-continental jump by then, spreading from Wuhan...

If monsoon is the season you love, then you must be missing a lot. It's the time Nature gets in touch with its finer self and turns into poet, painter,...

Like GDP, IQ should not be regarded as a comprehensive measure -- GDP of human development and IQ of intellectualism. In the last 100 years, the general IQ of humanity...

Addressing the negative impacts of climate change is one of the major concerns of sustainable development goals (SDGs). In this regard, mitigation and adaptation strategies are developed as tools against...

The boy at home keeps revising his wishlist. The original was prepared before his board exams. After all the hard work and stress, he wanted to lock his books in...

I woke up very early on Sunday morning hearing the heart-touching scream of a small calf in the lane adjacent to my house in Bhubaneswar. It was a piercing cry,...

Juliet: “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” – Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Act II. Scene II When you...

The mention of alcohol triggered odd reactions in this friend. His droopy eyes assumed a bright glint, his lips parted in a beatific smile, the anaemic face found a reddish...

Six lakh plus cases so far and more than 18,000 deaths. And it's still not clear whether we have touched the peak, at the mid-point or only a few notches...