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Daily Quiz | On 76 years of NATO National flags of Alliance’s members flutter at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium. File. START THE QUIZ 1 / 5 | The construction of the ______ ____ in 1961 tested the strength of the alliance between European countries and the US, especially against an invasion by the Soviet … Read more
The story I share is not mine alone. It belongs to millions of students from marginalised communities across India who face systemic barriers in their pursuit of education. Born to illiterate farming parents in Buldhana district of Maharashtra’s Vidarbha region, the idea of quality education seemed like a distant dream from my earliest memories. Our … Read more
The women of Jharia Circle in Dhanbad, Jharkhand were desperate for water. They gathered in a local temple to figure out a solution and then decided to dig a well. “Without any scientific background, they just knew that [if they] ‘dig a well here, we’ll get some sort of water’,” narrates Anirudh Soni, a research … Read more
Almost everywhere in the world, it is women who take it upon themselves to fetch water, often travelling great distances by foot. | Photo Credit: M. Saranraj We trek up a trail, on a hillock composed of damp, loose rock that cuts into finger millet fields, to reach Giri’s tile-roofed home. It is within the … Read more
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), diarrhoeal disease is the third-leading cause of death among children aged 1–59 months, with 4,43,832 global deaths under five and an additional 50,851 deaths in children aged 5–9 years annually. India bears a significant share of this burden, with 1.7 billion childhood cases each year, largely due to … Read more
A bronze statue of Virginia Woolf in Richmond-upon-Thames, U.K., where the author set up her publishing house Hogarth Press, and lived for 10 years. | Photo Credit: Getty Images Prefixing any straitjacketed definition with a defiant “not” can produce startling results. Much like Kabir’s ‘ulatbansi’ (upside-down sayings) or the Advaita philosophy of ‘neti neti’ (not … Read more
John Green, author of bestselling books including The Fault In Our Stars, is a passionate campaigner for eradicating tuberculosis. In his new book, Everything is Tuberculosis, he writes about the history of the disease, the role of the U.S., and why he decided to do something about it. An edited excerpt from an interview: A … Read more
In 16th century Mughal India, four unlikely scouts set out on an imperial hunt through the length and breadth of the land, on the Great Moghul’s orders. What they uncover, about their mission and indeed, each other, forms the crux of Shandana Minhas’ new novel, Ferdowsnama (published by Penguin). Blending a tale of adventure with nuggets … Read more
It is turtle time in coastal Karnataka with hundreds of sea turtles, mainly the Olive Ridleys, flocking to the beaches to lay eggs during December-March. There are also efforts to safeguard them so as to ensure the turtle offspring return to the sea after a gap of 45-60 days. Though the sea turtles take abundant … Read more
Daily Quiz | On Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Wagh Nakh, the tiger claw shaped weapon Shivaji used during his fight with Afzal Khan. START THE QUIZ 1 / 5 | On June 11, 1665, Shivaji signed a treaty with Jai Singh (who represented Aurangazeb). What is it called? 2 / 5 | Shivaji had an older … Read more