When Jorge Mario Bergoglio, a little-known Argentine Cardinal, was elected as the Pope of the Catholic Church in 2013, he, as is customary for all...

Meditation (mostly of Buddhist origin) is the new cure-all, drawing to its edifying <g data-gr-id="46">navel</g> a legion of adherents,...

Most nations, barring a few (which includes India), have ratified the UN Convention Against Torture. It’s an open secret, however, that the state...

In the Nirbhaya <g data-gr-id="38">gangrape</g> case, one of the accused was a juvenile, just a few months short of being a major. He was...

Homeopathy doesn’t work. In fact, you are probably better off without it. This caveat comes from Australia’s National Health and Medicine Research...

The health benefits of breastfeeding are stuff of commonsense, and are increasingly endorsed by science. But when someone claims that breastfed babies...

Last year Delhi earned the dubious distinction of being the most polluted city in the world. Its unsuspecting denizens, a WHO study revealed, were...

Staunch Hindu chauvinists never tire of reminding us of India’s glorious past. So we are told that ancient Hindus could make and fly aeroplanes; that...

Our bodies and minds are prisoners of modern science. Not a day goes by without newspapers, TV channels and the Internet plying us with the latest...