Month: October 2015

Mali Devi with her two-year-old—and second—daughter Khushi at their home in Dolatpura Kotda, 35 km north-east of Jaipur, Rajasthan’s capital. The panchayat is one of 30 where more girls were born than boys over the last year, a historic achievement in a state with India’s fifth-worst child sex-ratio. Credit: Devanik Saha

Rajasthan’s Revolution: In 30 Panchayats, More Girls Born Than Boys

Devanik Saha, IndiaSpend.org 03/10/2015

While administrative and governance matters were handled by gram...

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India Announces New Climate Change Targets

Nitin Sethi 02/10/2015

The Indian government has committed to reduce greenhouse gas...

A poster for the film 'The Martian'. Source: Fox Movies

Mars is There, Waiting to Be Reached – Bringing it Home is the Problem

Vasudevan Mukunth 02/10/2015

A review of the film 'The Martian', directed by...

A purple frog female. Males are smaller, about one-third the size of females. Credit: S.D. Biju

How Tadpole Consumption is Driving the Endangered Purple Frog to Extinction

Richa Malhotra 02/10/2015

Government and non-government organisations have to come together in...

Study suggests the ability to experience pain may be the key to having empathy for others in pain. www.shutterstock.com

Why it Hurts to See Others Suffer: Pain and Empathy Linked in the Brain

Rebecca S. Dewey 01/10/2015

The human brain processes the experience of empathy –...