Shashi Tharoor

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Book Excerpt: The Immutable Wickedness of the Air Pollution Problem

Jyoti Pande Lavakare 28/12/2020

Wicked problems have innumerable causes, are tough to describe...

Risug, male sterilisation, female sterilisation, sterilisation camps, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, population control, population explosion, Independence Day speech, family planning, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, National Family Health Survey, population replacement level, total fertility rate, annual population growth rate, gender norms,

Elections 2019: Have Politicians Delivered on Maternal Health Conditions?

Shoba Suri 08/05/2019

It is worth to look a constituency-wise look at...

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Study Says Winston Churchill’s Policies Caused the 1943 Bengal Famine

The Wire Staff 30/03/2019

Researchers in India and the US used weather data...

Shashi Tharoor, Scientific American, pranayama, yoga, breathing exercises, imperialism, colonialism, scientific paper, passive voice, Samir Chopra, intellectual property, JK Rowling, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, pseudoscience, Big Bang Theory, cardiac coherence breathing,

The Good, Bad and the Ugly of Trapping ‘Pranayama’ Within Scientific Speak

Vasudevan Mukunth 31/01/2019

Scientific American's article and the reaction it has prompted...

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India Can Tackle the Looming Cardiovascular Disease Epidemic, But Only If There Is Political Will

Deepak Natarajan 17/09/2018

Unless the government makes serious efforts towards tackling the...

Union ministers Rajyavardhan Rathore and Kiren Rijiju working out together. Credit: Twitter/Kiren Rijiju

Elitist #HumFitTohIndiaFit Campaign Divorces Fitness From Health

Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay 25/05/2018

Rajyavardhan Rathore's video-posting campaign is selfish for placing self...

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Why Brexit’s Impact on Asian Researchers Is a Matter of Concern

Aswin Sekhar 18/11/2017

If the UK withdraws from the Horizon 2020 programme...