On March 15, some States and cities in India experienced the first of severe heatwaves for the year 2025. This was 20 days earlier than the first severe heatwave in 2024. In the last decade, the number of severe heat days and the severity/intensity of heatwaves have been rising. The year 2024 was the warmest … Read more
Aspirations, from the seemingly mundane to more substantial plans, reveal what may be the architecture of hope in mental health recovery. | Photo Credit: SREEJITH R. KUMAR In a small house in western India, shared by a group of people once homeless and living with mental illnesses, a woman dreams of cooking ragi mudde, a … Read more
A book-browser has neither the patience nor the attention-span to read a book; he simply likes the company of the book and the feel of the book resting on his palm. | Photo Credit: Getty Images Yes, I am a “book-browser”. I browse through books at the bookstore, but I never buy a single book! … Read more
A book-browser has neither the patience nor the attention-span to read a book; he simply likes the company of the book and the feel of the book resting on his palm. | Photo Credit: Getty Images Yes, I am a “book-browser”. I browse through books at the bookstore, but I never buy a single book! … Read more
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
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
Microplastics were first reported in 2004, and the harmful effects on living organisms have echoed in conversations. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto Annie Leonard, former executive director of Greenpeace of the U.S., once said, “There is no such thing as ‘away’. When we throw anything away, it must go somewhere.” Large piles of plastic trash … Read more
Once upon a time, humans woke up, stretched, yawned, and greeted the sun. Now, they wake up, stretch, and immediately grab their phones to check WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter (or X, if you want to sound fancy). The sun can wait, notifications can’t…. Social media has pulled off something remarkable — it has transformed ordinary … Read more
