Weather Woes
Every time, erratic rain extends for a longer duration in a warmer season, we are reminded of our hapless vulnerability to flooding.
IN DEPTH
The ‘Tauba Tauba’ Syndrome
Our youngsters aren’t rebellious. There is nothing inherently wrong with them. They are only exposed to a sea of conflicting values, proliferation of images, and targeted manufacturing of desires.
Book Narrating Gandhi’s Views On Religion Released
This seminal book narrates the factual story of Gandhi’s views on religion and his struggle with communalism based on what he lived, did and said.
G20 Meeting Takeaway
The administration needs to focus on building and upgrading its infrastructure before bringing more tourists to the region. Improving transportation infrastructure, providing quality accommodation, ensuring basic amenities, and addressing security concerns must be the top priority for the government.
Entertainment for Pattern Seeking, Puzzle Solving Apes
Stories offer opportunities to exercise our capacities for pattern detection at multiple levels. We detect personality traits from patterns of action and speech. We infer psychological states and conflicts from variations and inconsistencies in those patterns.
The Unresolved Palestinian Question
Most of the Palestinians ended up as stateless refugees in neighbouring Arab countries, only a minority moved further abroad. Until today, only a fraction of the next-generation Palestinians have applied for or received other citizenships. As a result, the vast majority of the currently around 6.2 million Palestinians in the Middle East have remained stateless into the third or fourth generation.
Uniting Opposition
Karnataka outcome has given some understandable confidence to both the Congress and the wider opposition. But as they say, the devil lies in the details. It remains to be seen whether the unity withstands the need to make sacrifices and the concessions by the different parties.
Letter To Editor | English Trivia
As a result of British colonialism, English was considered the governing language, and is still in vogue due to India’s heterogeneous languages. And today, India has approximately 125 million English speakers!
Reducing Pesticide Use, Restoring Degraded Ecosystems
How many workshops , conferences and meetings were held by various Biodiversity Committees in J&K in the last 5 years? How many People’s Biodiversity Registers-PBR’s have been prepared at the village level? How much information has been collected from local hakeems, vaids about the medicinal value of different herbs? How many PBRs have been digitised?
PM’s Three-Nation Tour
The success of the tour has once again underscored India’s rising geopolitical profile and diplomatic heft. The country is playing now a bigger role in influencing world affairs and working to change it for the better.
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