India gets its first Braille lifestyle magazine
The fact that nobody in India had till now thought of a lifestyle magazine for the visually impaired just goes to show how much we really care about them. So …
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Puppy Love: Busting myths about stray thoughts
Loud barking that doesn’t let us sleep, chasing cars when we drive back home, sleeping in the middle of the road till we honk it away – stray dogs are …
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Baby Nobel: Delhi-born Raj Chetty a new icon in world of economics
At an age when most young men are moving up the career and success ladder, Indian- origin economist Raj Chetty has already become an icon in the world of economics. …
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Arab Spring: Is sexual revolution the next in line?
“In the Arab world, explains an Egyptian gynaecologist, sex is the opposite of sport: ‘everyone talks about football, but hardly anyone plays it. But sex — everyone is doing it, …
Read MoreRaking up ghosts of Delhi gangrape in Berlin
More than three months after the brutal gangrape of a 23-year-old physiotherapist in New Delhi, the issue of women’s safety in India strangely surfaced in Berlin amid the Indo-German summitry, …
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Cross-border talk: Why FTA won’t work, but Free Thought Area may just click
The PR invite was catchy. It immediately fuelled the interest. “We have heard the Politicians, we have heard the Generals, we have heard the Media, Now it’s time we listen …
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Sexual assaults on foreign women dent India’s global image, it’s time to act…
The Indian parliament may have passed the new anti-rape bill last month, but it will take a while for the nation’s image to be resurrected as a safe tourist destination …
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Letter from Goa: Where there is Waste, there’s a Way
In the international tourist destination of Goa, a constant refrain one hears is of overflowing garbage. Goans are upset by the waves of waste that tourists ‘bring with them’. During …
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Namaste, Wai! An Indo-Thai Culture Curry
On a recent trip to Chiang Mai, the bustling tourist hub of Thailand, Diya Aggarwal discovered so many striking cultural similarities between India and Thailand that she couldn’t help, but …
Read MoreBrave, big heart and fearless
We honor a woman known simply as Nirbhaya – brave, big heart, fearless. This bright young woman was studying to be a doctor when she boarded a bus in Delhi …
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