“Wife-sharing” haunts Indian villages as girls decline
When Munni arrived in this fertile, sugarcane-growing region of north India as a young bride years ago, little did she imagine she would be forced into having sex and bearing children with her husband’s two brothers who had failed to find [...]
Explaining why belief in pseudoscience is often evidence resistant
What links belief in tarot cards, UFOs and vaccine rejectionism? Yes, they are all forms of superstitious or magical thinking, but are there characteristics that predict who will believe in such nonsense? That’s one of the questions that psychologists [...]
No end to Endosulfan tragedy
The tragedy of people exposed to pesticide Endosulfan in Kasaragod district of Kerala is continuing. Despite government promises, official efforts to treat and rehabilitate the victims and protect them from further exposure to contaminated soil [...]
D.M. Bennett : The Man Who Went to Jail for Being a Freethinker
DeRobigne Mortimer Bennett is not a name familiar to many, and given how much he fought for freethought, free speech, and a free press, that is unfortunate. Called the “American Voltaire” by friends and the “Devil’s [...]
Jam Session
A soggy, sorry evening with dug-up asphalt swimming in monsoon slush choking with traffic. Rahul Gandhi is forced to take the Delhi Metro to get home. As ad guru Dan Bellack said, “Life is too short for traffic.
Another place, another [...]
Some facts and myths of honour killings of India
Some facts and myths of honour killings of India
Honour killings not just a north Indian phenomenon.
Khap-sanctioned honour killings in north India may have hogged all the headlines but such sordid incidents have been reported from all over [...]
Shocking!!! So are we heading back to the Dark Ages?
Will govt act fast to stop khap terror? It is a serious issue of moving many steps backward and undermines all the efforts and struggles made by our previous governments in ore and post independence era to improve women welfare and hence [...]
At 1,000 cases a year, India matches Pak in menace
As many as 1,000 boys and girls fall prey to honour killings every year in India, with Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh alone accounting for 900, according to a research paper presented at an international conference in London last week.
At [...]
Where are the science leaders in India?
A critical deficiency in India’s current scientific establishment is the dearth of credible administrators, who can rise to the challenges that confront her educational and research institutions today, says Gautam Radhakrishna Desiraju. [...]
School ‘rejects’ 26/11 girl
An 11- year-old girl crippled during the Mumbai attacks, whose emotional but unshakeable testimony in Ajmal Kasab’s trial had given her national fame, has allegedly been turned away by a private school that doesn’t want to risk “trouble” [...]
