If someone had told me two years ago that I would lose over 50 kilos without setting foot in a gym or giving up real food, I would not have believed it. But here I am—healthier, sharper, and more confident than I have been in years. My transformation, however, did not begin with a fitness … Read more
India, home to 138 million older adults, is witnessing a rapid demographic transition, with the proportion of the population aged 60 and above increasing from 7.4% in 2001 to a projected 13.2% in 2031. File photograph | Photo Credit: RAGU R Even within a universal healthcare system, there continue to remain marked disparities in access … Read more
A bold venture: P. V. Rajamannar dismissed the charge that the recommendations of his committee were an attempt “to wreck the Constitution or introduce revolutionary changes”. Here, he is receiving a gift of U.S. law books from John Wiggin, Public Affairs Officer, U.S. Information Service, Madras, on December 12, 1958, when he was the Chief Justice of the Madras High … Read more
India’s vibrant democratic landscape has always been marked by theatrics: mass rallies, passionate speeches, and intensive door-to-door campaigning. Yet, the past decade has witnessed this traditional electoral model intertwine significantly with digital platforms, giving rise to a phenomenon of ‘infodemic’. While the word initially referred to the deluge of misleading information during the COVID-19 crisis, … Read more
“My first sighting of a male blackbuck was ethereal. This huge, big male with horns sticking out like swords, body glistening, standing against the sun in the morning,” remembers the Bengaluru-based natural history filmmaker and the co-founder of Trailing Wild Productions, Sumanth Kuduvalli. It was in 2013 at Maidanahalli at the Jayamangali Blackbuck Reserve, in … Read more
Like it or not, it’s clear: every year, India must face down intense heat waves and erratic but also often intense bursts of rainfall. In a bid to find as many ways out of the consequences — or at least their ability to surprise governments — as possible, the country has turned to artificial intelligence … Read more
Washington, April 22: The United States President, Mr. Gerald Ford, denied last night that the U.S. had exerted “any kind of direct pressure” on the South Vietnamese President, Mr. Nguyen Van Thieu, to resign. In a televised conversation with three network correspondents, some hours after Mr. Thieu stepped down in Saigon, Mr. Ford maintained that … Read more
(In the weekly Health Matters newsletter, Ramya Kannan writes about getting to good health, and staying there. You can subscribe here to get the newsletter in your inbox.) This is not old wine in new bottle, this is mulled wine you forgot to throw spices into, but that glass is frothing with all the overheating that is happening this summer. There is May … Read more
(This story is part of The Hindu on Books newsletter that comes to you with book reviews, reading recommendations, interviews with authors and more. Subscribe here.) Welcome to this edition of The Hindu on Books Newsletter. Today is Earth Day, and Sunil Rajagopal, a birder and writer based in Chennai, has handpicked ten of his favourite reads, old … Read more
Ootacamund, April 22: It is understood that the Ceylon Pearl Fisheries this year were a failure on the whole by reason of the fact that the great majority of oysters dived and brought out were immature, but from the Ceylon Government’s point of view they were not a financial failure, on account of keen competition … Read more