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Let your skin breathe…
…especially in this polluted environment, says Dr Rashmi Sharma, consultant dermatologist at Fortis, Vasant Kunj Over 6.5 million deaths globally every year are attributed to air pollution. That comes to an astonishing figure of 18,000 deaths a day! This figure is comparable to the deaths occurring on account of major illnesses. There are several air […]
Where life isn’t beautiful
BR Ambedkar’s exhortation to Dalits – Educate, Agitate, Organise – is given context and meaning in this anthology of poetry and stories Growing up, I had seen the world through a casteist lens. To be more specific, I viewed classmates who got admission through reservation as ‘lesser students’ because being upper caste, I was building […]
‘The study should be repeated’
The Bureau of Indian Standards conducted a study on drinking water which placed Delhi at the bottom. CPCb, experts question its accuracy VEENA NAIR @patriot_talks A study by the Bureau of Indian Standards that tested the quality of piped drinking water across the country stirred controversy when it rated Delhi as having some of […]
A ready reckoner of our world
In their book Good Economics Hard times, abhijit Banerjee and esther Duflo attempt to present a nuanced view of things, instead of the simplistic analysis that dominates the media today One of the challenges that I constantly encounter as someone who primarily makes a living writing on economics is to explain nuance to an audience […]
The promise of Magnetic Medicine
The technique of trans-cranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is now being used to loosen cocaine’s nasty grip on addicts It is difficult to quantify the totality of human potential lost every year to addictions. This includes behavioural ones such as gambling, video gaming, shopping, incessant internet surfing as well as maligned substance abuse dependencies — a […]
Students on the streets
When JNU students tried to march to Parliament, the attention of the whole nation was drawn to the fee hike On November 18, 2019, the students of Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, organised a protest march asking the government to roll back proposed changes in the Draft Hostel Manual, including a hike in the hostel fees. […]
Students clash with media, allege they were ‘harassed, groped’ by cops
Delhi police filed two FIRs in connection with the protests After the events of yesterday’s protest march by students of Jawaharlal Nehru University — when nearly 100 students were detained and several injured during a lathi-charge by the Delhi police — the Jawaharlal Nehru University Teachers’ Association held a solidarity protest in support of the […]
Nine hotspots spew pollution despite apex court order
Clouds of dust, ongoing construction work in some sites, open dumping of garbage — this isn’t what the supreme court had in mind On November 4, a Supreme Court bench cited 16 “hotspot regions” in the NCR as the source for “major polluting activities” that need to be curtailed. Visits to some of these sites, […]