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Engaging Senior Citizens to Build a Healthy Society

India, Sept. 21 -- The world is undergoing an unprecedented demographic transformation. The proportion of older people is rising rapidly, while the proportion of younger people is declining. This shif... Read More


BRICS Dinner Serve the Guest, Not Yourself

India, Sept. 21 -- One elementary principle of serving food is to ensure that the food is palatable to the visitor. If I am alone at home, I may be perfectly happy having a glass of milk with some por... Read More


Politics Through Advocacy of Food Habits

India, Sept. 21 -- Today, as political propaganda shapes social thinking, food habits have also become a tool of divisive political tendencies. It is alleged that Muslims are more violent in their ten... Read More


Eating for Legitimacy

India, Sept. 21 -- Right-leaning commentators and ideologues have chosen to lambast the LoP, Rahul Gandhi, for taking issue with the vegetarian-only meal provided at the recently concluded BRICS summi... Read More


The God They Cannot Contain!

India, Sept. 21 -- Why should anybody be frightened of Christians? We are barely 2.3 per cent of India's population. We do not have the numbers to dominate elections. We do not have armies marching be... Read More


Death of Electoral Democracy in Real Time

India, Sept. 21 -- Electoral democracy is not rhetoric; it is democracy in practice. But when the fundamental principles of electoral democracy are violated, the claim no longer holds. It becomes rhet... Read More


Why I Am Not a Theorist (Part 3)

India, Sept. 21 -- I am tired of the Indian theorists MN Srinivas, Bhikku Parekh, Ashish Nandy, Akeel Bilgrami, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Homi K.Bhabha, Aijaz Ahmed, Upendra Baxi, Partha Chatterjee,... Read More


Exaggeration Invites Exaggeration

India, Sept. 21 -- Thomas Menamparampil's Exaggeration Invites Exaggeration is a wide-ranging, deeply reflective engagement with some of the major crises confronting contemporary humanity: violence, r... Read More


Reforms in Public Examinations: A Letter to Nandan Nilekani

India, Sept. 21 -- Mr Nandan Nilekani, Chairman, High Powered Task Force on Reforms in Public Examinations, Ministry of Education, Government of India Dear Mr Nilekani, India's education system is i... Read More


Fixing the Foundation

India, Sept. 21 -- Bar Council of India (BCI) chairman Manan Kumar Mishra sparked controversy with his action and subsequent U-turn on an order barring students from the 2026 batch of Hyderabad's Nati... Read More