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The Nodia police sent notices to 23 private firms located under its jurisdiction, asking them to stop Muslim employees from offering Friday namaz at a local park. (Representational Image)

Muslims in time warp: Muslims in the post-truth world are caught...

It is interesting to know how Islamic societies across the world encounter three extreme situations simultaneously.

6 Jan 2019 7:54 AM IST

Plant foods are rich in micronutrients such as vitamins and minerals and several bioactive molecules which are collectively good for health.

Climate change, healthy living and food choices, time to give up...

Vegetarianism is an immensely debated topic and is coloured with political ideologies too.

30 Dec 2018 6:40 AM IST

The diet is caste

The diet is caste

Food habits of the observant Brahmanical elites must now become the food for everyone everywhere.

30 Dec 2018 5:19 AM IST

Today we can say test-tube baby technology is ethical, fine and safe after 40 years of the birth of Lousie Brown or Durga.

Creating perfect babies: Futuristic babies

The ethics: Can we deny ourselves benefits of DNA technology?

28 Dec 2018 12:12 AM IST

The debate on religious conversion has assumed a global proportion partly due to the market-driven globalisation and also partly due to the new non-hierarchical, flexible and pastor-driven Church organisations, mainly emanating from the US.

Yoke of conversion: Good Samaritan never forced any conversions

raging debates between conversion and reconversion have produced not merely forms of symbolic violence but resulted in...

16 Dec 2018 1:54 AM IST

Dalit Christians are an overwhelming majority in the Church (more than 65 per cent), yet they are dominated and marginalised by the so-called upper caste Christians who are a minority.

Yoke of conversion: For Dalits, it's out of the pan into the fire

It is an undeniable fact that for centuries Dalits were caught up in the iron grip of caste.

16 Dec 2018 1:54 AM IST

Scientists are confirming what many of us have suspected for years; music has powerful effects on the brain.

Boredom, mother of creativity: Brain research throws up the power of...

When fed with music, the entire brain-sphere is aglow, showing that the power of music influences every part of the...

11 Dec 2018 2:29 AM IST

The alternative to boredom is chaos and addiction. Human beings seem to prefer anything, utter misery or even wars, over being bored.

Boredom, mother of creativity: Way out of boredom is through it

Academics are awaiting clinching evidence before listing the benefits of boredom.

11 Dec 2018 2:23 AM IST

It is important for companies to make their employees understand the benefits, and the potential of these microchips in their day-to-day lives and also ensure that the data stored in the chips are secure.

Behold the microchip in your body

Opening doors, logging into computers, storing medical data et al seem to be healthy advances in life, courtesy...

2 Dec 2018 5:33 AM IST

China President Xi Jinping

Age of anxiety: Alienation modern scourge

The task of forging an overarching identity transcending the amalgam that develops through such superimposition...

25 Nov 2018 7:54 AM IST

US President Donald Trump

Age of anxiety: Good times, bad times

The world as a whole during the last three quarters of a century after World War II has seen the best of times .

25 Nov 2018 7:51 AM IST

The Harvard University which is one of the most well funded varsities in the world.

Commodification of education is a necessary evil

The fact that each country is the best critic of its own educational system is a good thing.

18 Nov 2018 7:26 AM IST