Year: 2018

Chennai: At an outreach activity with a local organisation, Pudiyador, members of the faculties of the Institute of Mathematical Sciences and the Chennai Mathematics Institute observe zero shadow day with children and volunteers at 12:07 pm on April 24, 2018. Credit: Varuni P.

Debate: Science Outreach Is Multifarious and Inclusion Needn’t Be Direct

Varuni P. 28/08/2018

Greater institutional involvement in planning curricula has the potential...

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Char Dham Highway Case: SC Overrules NGT, Sends Matter Back to Original Bench

Kabir Agarwal 27/08/2018

The controversial project has bypassed an Environment Impact Assessment...

Women dressed in Dangi saree at the Adivasi Diwas rally. Credit: Nikita Sonavane

The Roots of a Growing Adivasi Resistance in Gujarat

Nikita Sonavane 27/08/2018

A district-level committee in Dang district has rejected all individual...

Why Healthcare Was Such an Important Part of Relief Work During Kerala Floods

Aju Mathew 27/08/2018

'One person didn’t even know if her spouse had...

File photo of Swami Sanand. Credit: Nandanupadhyay/Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 3.0

The Ganga Is Dying and This Sadhu Is on a Fast Unto Death to Save It

Sandeep Pandey 27/08/2018

Swami Sanand thinks the present idea of development is...

Though a drinking habit is very common, what people consider a standard drink to be varies widely. Credit: Wil Stewart/Unsplash

Alcohol at Any Level Is Injurious to Health

K.S. Parthasarathy 27/08/2018

A large new study has said that every level...

For science communication to be undertaken in earnest, public institutions must employ a realistic definition of ‘the public’, in particular one that accounts for and caters to people across caste lines and socioeconomic status. Representative image. Credit: IISc

Science Outreach Is Great but Scientists Must Consider Who They’re Reaching

Madhusudhan Raman 26/08/2018

Scientific outreach is now seen as a responsibility that...