A very small fraction of India’s science education centres facilitate equitable access to various spaces for people of different genders. This pattern is especially acute with student hostels – where ...

This article is the first of a two-part series that examines India’s plans for over two dozen mega hydroelectric (hydel) power projects in the Himalayan and Indo-Burma biodiversity hotspots, ...

Contrary to popular belief and cinematic glorification, most archaeologists would say that the search for spectacular treasures isn’t their main research objective. One of the main goals of ...

The effects of climate change are so unsparing of smaller details that two places not far from each other on the Bengal coast have been confronted with separate challenges. In Jharkhali of the ...

One of the more endearing phenomena we see among animals is the cooperation between different species, especially when one partner is big and strong and the other is small and weak. A familiar example ...

This ground report is the first of two about a community’s religious beliefs and their role in conservation, explored through the community members’ lived experiences. The people of the Monpa belt of ...

This ground report is the second of two about a community’s religious beliefs and their role in conservation, explored through the community members’ lived experiences. A closer look at the Black ...

We hover over the leafless, barren branches of a beech tree that lost its crown due to drought, a spruce with a tip stripped bare of needles and, in the distance, we see the bald skeletons of conifers ...

Erwin Schrödinger, 1933. Photo: Nobel Foundation/Public Domain. Quantum physics is one of the most remarkable developments of the 20th century. Until the early 1900s or so, Isaac Newton’s laws of ...

Post-truth is pre-fascist. — Timothy Snyder, The American Abyss It is twilight time for democracy. In the world’s oldest and most populous liberal democracies, the United States and India respectively ...

In the late nineteenth century, industrialising Europe was the epicentre of what Max Weber famously named the “disenchantment of the world”. Yet the famous Weber quote often omits the second part of ...

With the appreciation that diet is the most influential factor shaping our gut microbiome, more affluent people are now moving away from junk food and making healthier food choices. The impact of ...