Given harsh climatic changes and dwindling water resources, farmers in Assam have come up with alternatives to manage environmental crises.

With swiftly diminishing grasslands, India’s biodiversity and water table management lie at the risk of disruption, argues Azera Parveen Rahman

Fortunately, she found a donor, and 10 years later is leading a healthy and happy life with her now grown-up children. Not everyone is as lucky as her...

Travel has many purposes – to de-stress, re-bond or simply explore and experience something new. The quest for a fulfilling experience, however, has...

Shweta Mathur has 700 ‘friends’ on a popular social networking site. Yet, when she sat in a psychologist’s office after her parents’ suspected...

When 32-year-old Amita (name changed) and her husband went to see a gynaecologist after she suffered a miscarriage, they were shocked to know that the...

Who doesn’t want to bring up his child in a cocoon of comfort? Little Lavanya’s parents, however, decided to take this a step further and ensured...

For reasons that are lifestyle-related and, therefore, well within our control, occurrence of acidity among youngsters is rising steadily and should...

Your bill reads zero in a restaurant in Ahmedabad and you are told the person who had come before you has paid for your meal. You get into an auto in...

Mondeep Dutta is a full-time employee in a well-known IT company in Bangalore. It’s a weekday, and he is sitting in the comfort of his beanbag and...

The gruesome gang-rape and death of a 23-year-old girl in Delhi last month has brought alive the issue of safety of women in public places. But how...

In Assam’s Sualkuchi village, the rhythmic click-clock of the loom reverberates everywhere. Every house has a loom and in it the xipini, or weaver,...