When correcting a young person is perceived as rejection: Understanding how to parent and mentor adolescents

Many young individuals avoid situations where they are expected to conform to norms or correct their behaviour. Photograph used for representational purposes only | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto In recent times, aggressive behaviour, violent crimes, substance abuse, problematic internet use, and self-harm among some young adults have raised concerns among the older generation. What is … Read more

Daily Quiz | On William Shakespeare

Daily Quiz | On William Shakespeare The oil-painted portrait called the Chandos portrait, which is named after a Duke who formerly owned the painting. File START THE QUIZ 1 / 7 | Which English poet hailed Shakespeare with the now famous epithet: “not of an age, but for all time”?  2 / 7 | What … Read more

U.S. federal court gives relief to Indian students whose visas were revoked

Photo from a protest against U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration and against student visas being revoked, at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., April 17, 2025. | REUTERS/Ken McGagh/File Photo A federal judge in Georgia issued Temporary Restraining Orders (TROs) restoring Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS) records for 133 international students who sued … Read more

Senior citizens in India grapple with long distances to health facilities, study finds

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

How Tamil Nadu’s previous attempt to study Centre-State relations through Rajamannar Committee panned out

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 political infodemic: notes from five State elections

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

Of grasslands, blackbucks, and pastoral nomads

“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