India has a long tradition of bright minds poking holes in some distinctly un-bright ideas. And one such mind lived over eight centuries ago in the south, blowing a hole so large through that disastrous institution called caste that a flood of people—about 6.5 million today—escaped the old order, arriving [...]

Note – Notwithstanding the cliched nature of the title of this post, this article does not have the objective to be lost in our “glorious past” but  gives more than 50 ways to make India a better country. You may ask why this title then, well, there is a simple answer [...]

About 5,500 of over 76,000 children tested in nine Indian cities have been diagnosed with tuberculosis, 9% of them with multi-drug resistant TB (MDR-TB), highlighting the silent spread of the disease. […]

Can droughts experienced centuries ago teach us ways to handle the present ones? They can if we care to look in the right place — for instance, the walls of temples in Tamil Nadu. […]

In a recent article in an American newspaper, the doyen among police scholars, Prof. David Bayley, expressed his anguish over what he considered to be a crisis in U.S. law enforcement. In his view this was caused mainly by three factors: race, police training and guns. There was an undeniable [...]

Ahmedabad is blazing a trail in preserving our cultural heritage, something other Indian cities can emulate to make a mark on the global stage. […]

The health policy of India aims at an integrated approach, which is to provide accessible, affordable and equitable quality health care to the marginalised and vulnerable sections. For a heavily populated country such as India, this is an uphill task. However, the aim of good health and well-being for all [...]