Month: June 2018

In popular culture and popular imagination, Shimla has been cast within the columns of its colonial heritage. Credit: Pritam Das Biswas/Unsplash

The Rest of India Is Only Just Seeing the True, Decolonised Version of Shimla

Manik Sharma 08/06/2018

For decades now, a summer in Shimla implied scarcity...

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It’s Time We Stopped Mahanadi From Becoming a River of no Return

Priya Ranjan Sahu 08/06/2018

The Odisha and Chhattisgarh governments need to start a...

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The Indonesian Divers Who Are Genetically Adapted to a Nomadic Life at Sea

The Wire Staff 07/06/2018

Meet the Bajau, the ‘Sea Nomads’, whose life at...

Barack Obama (visible on the left) responds to a suggestion by Jairam Ramesh as the latter looks down with amusement. December 18th, 2009, Copenhagen. Credit: Jairam Ramesh

Jairam Ramesh: An Insider’s View of Climate Talks at Copenhagen and Cancún

Jairam Ramesh 07/06/2018

"The two years I spent in the world of...

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India Records 22% Drop in Maternal Mortality Rate

UP registers 30% decline in MMR, while three states...

Kozhikode: Animal Husbandry department and forest officials collect bats from a well of a house after the outbreak of 'Nipah' virus, near Perambra in Kozhikode on Monday. The Nipah virus has so far claimed three lives in Kerala while one person is undergoing treatment and 8 others are under observation in Kozhikode district. Credit: PTI

How Kerala Passed the Tough Nipah Test

K.P Aravindan 07/06/2018

The way the potentially deadly virus hit Kerala without...

It remains to be seen whether state governments will be happy just having IITs or whether they’ll push for them to become centres for research and change. A lecture hall at IIT Kharagpur. Credit: ambuj/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

Do Most Graduates of Our Education System Not Contribute to the Economy?

Gangan Prathap 07/06/2018

There is such unevenness that our higher education system...