The experience of the moment is the expression of the moment. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto Haiku is the celebration of a moment, at once transient and transcendent. What started as a rigid Japanese verse form of three lines, haiku has become a philosophy, a way of life, a detail that strikes you. A dewdrop … Read more
A group of Indian women wearing traditional dress | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto Even after over 75 years of Independence, the social fabric of India continues to be set against women. India might have surpassed countries like the U.K. to become the fifth largest economy in the world but this economic growth has not been … Read more
Priya Ranganathan’s first encounter with a Myristica swamp was back in 2019 when she was working as a research assistant at the Bengaluru-based Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE) on a hydro-ecology project. As part of a field trip with other researchers, she was exploring the Aghanashini, one of the rivers … Read more
Almost every day for the past few years, the muddy winding roads to a farmhouse in Sajanpura village, enclosed within 12-feet-high brick walls, would resound with sounds of a DJ and the band of the baaraat (the groom’s side coming in procession to take the bride). This farmhouse is where the NGO, Gayatri Sarv Samaj … Read more
(L-R) Fondation Louis Vuitton, Smritivan Earthquake Memorial Museum, and the Guggenheim Did you know that the city of Basel, Switzerland with a population of around 1,75,000 people has 37 museums? A similar city division in India, such as Bandra East, Mumbai has that many people. Upmarket Bandra however has no museums and the city, barely … Read more
Selim Khandakar, 71, has always dreamt of making a museum in his village for the 12,000-plus objects he has collected over 50 years. A small portion of that collection has now reached one of the best museums in the world — the Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A) in London — thanks to his artist niece, … Read more
According tothe World Organisation for Animal Health, as of February 20, 2025, H5N1 has been found in 99 cats and has killed 18 cats. File (Image used for representation purpose only) | Photo Credit: Reuters A two-year-old girl from Narasaraopeta in Palnadu district, Andhra Pradesh, who was infected with H5N1 died on March 16, 2025; … Read more
Image used for representatin purpose only. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStock Photo Two independent clinical trials demonstrate the safety of stem cell therapies for Parkinson’s disease. The papers, published in Nature, investigate the use of cells derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells and human embryonic stem cells, respectively. Parkinson’s disease is a neurodegenerative disease characterised by the progressive loss of neurons that … Read more
Try to spend some time with Nature; even if you are in a concrete jungle, you can always gaze at the sky! | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto Writers from time immemorial had been categorising old age under ‘second childhood’. What exactly leads to senior citizens getting tagged this way? Yes, our bodies have lost their … Read more
Pitching for the marsh: The Corporation shelved a project to develop an eco-park on 93 acres of the Pallikaranai marsh after bio-mining of the dump. The decision followed protests by residents, who demand that the dump be removed and the marsh restored. | Photo Credit: B. JOTHI RAMALINGAM On April 13 this year, a group … Read more