Month: September 2016

Photo Story: Living on the Edge of a Rising Sea

Anup Bhattacharya 24/09/2016

Ghoramara Island in the Ganga firth of West Bengal...

Relatives immerse a body in the river Ganga prior to cremation in Varanasi. Credit: Reuters/Danish Siddiqui

Is Participative Governance the Answer to Cleaning the Ganga?

Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar 22/09/2016

According to activist Himanshu Thakkar, merely transferring powers within...

The Ig Nobel Prize ceremony in 2006. Paper planes are visible on the stage. Credit: jdlouhy/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

What the Photon is the Ig Nobel Prize?

Sangeetha Balakrishnan 22/09/2016

The Ig Nobel Prizes break stereotypes, telling students that...

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Do Dogs Threaten People’s Right to Safety in Public Spaces?

Janaki Lenin, Meghna Uniyal and Abi Tamim Vanak 22/09/2016

People can't avoid being attacked if authorities mandate that...

The Ptolemaic Geocentric system. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Opposition to Galileo Was Scientific, Not Just Religious

Christopher Graney 22/09/2016

Anti-Copernicans such as Locher and Brahe show that science...

The Panna Tiger Reserve is seen in the distance, from the banks of the river Ken. Credit: briangratwicke/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

Ken-Betwa River Link-up Approved, Tiger Reserve to Be Submerged

Nitin Sethi 22/09/2016

A panel headed by the environment minister Anil Madhav...

India has an estimated one lakh patients with thalassaemia, a genetic disorder in which the blood cells cannot make sufficient amounts of the iron-containing pigment haeomoglobin. Credit: ssoosay/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

India’s Ignoring Its Rare Disorders and Their Orphan Drugs Led to the Thalassaemia Crisis

T.V. Padma 22/09/2016

Neither national nor state health policies make any reference...