There are more environmental conflicts in India than any other country, and more clashes are over water (27 percent) than any other cause, according...

If you’ve had a chance to visit a maternity clinic or the family of a newborn, then you must have heard about the “cesarean-section (C-section) v/s...

Abad diet and lack of exercise have been held culprits for obesity for a long time. Lately, though, an ever increasing amount of evidence has...

WHEN one thinks of invasions, names of kings and rulers from history come to mind. Names of plants like Prosopis juliflora, Lantana camara and...

LAST TIME you noticed a grasshopper in your garden munching away the leaves, did you think of the massive damage it causes to agricultural crops...

This translates to 30 minutes of brisk walk for five days every week. It is commonly believed that the exercise is enough to avoid cardiovascular,...

The face of India is changing at a frightening pace. But not for the better, as far as women are concerned.  If I continue to write about rape and...

EVER wondered how your grandmother regularly kept fasts even in old age and still managed to have a long and healthy life? Turns out, fasting itself...

WE HAVE all heard about food chains and food webs. In school they tell us how an ecosystem is as simple as ‘who eats who’. Grass is eaten by...

‘The secret of success in battle lies often not so much in the use of one’s own strength but in the exploitation of the other side’s weaknesses.’ So...