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Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon.com.

Symptom of neo-liberal malaise

Jeff Bezos is a product as well as a symptom of these two worlds, albeit magnified on a global scale.

25 Sept 2018 1:01 AM IST

Corporate salaries go out of line: No limits to greed

The wealth of the average Indian reflected by per capita income is going to increase from Rs 103,219 in 2017 to Rs...

23 Sept 2018 4:53 AM IST

Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon.com.

Corporate salaries go out of line: Symptom of neo-liberal malaise

Jeff Bezos is a product as well as a symptom of these two worlds, albeit magnified on a global scale.

23 Sept 2018 4:46 AM IST

The world should know by now that sea level rise is real.

When a sea of white horses hits the land

The ocean knows it can flood the entire planet. It is already at it since the last ice age.

18 Sept 2018 12:13 AM IST

Increasing ocean bed agriculture to feed humans and destruction of mangroves, combined with trashing oceans with plastics, sound the death knell for coastal habitations.

Climate change spikes sea levels

Chennai, Kochi and Surat are among the world's top 20 cities will be flooded dangerously.

18 Sept 2018 12:11 AM IST

The practice of women wearing head-cover was normal in public until a century-and-a-half ago, when secular triumphalism began to replace the transcendent source of religion as the origin and essence of values and of the very concept of both personal and societal virtue

Burqa: The Case of Muslim Face Cover

The teaching of Prophet Muhammad provides the wisest advice: Muslims should follow the practices of the society in which...

9 Sept 2018 5:40 AM IST

Rather than criticising, the West should learn to celebrate and appreciate differences because the attempt at a mono-cultural West will prove counterproductive

Living with Islamophobia: Veiled' threats to liberal values

Islamophobia has increasingly become a part of the political rhetoric.

9 Sept 2018 5:37 AM IST

Social media companies have always had community standards for terms of use and were more limited than the constitutionally protected right to free speech.

Save the internet from corporate censorship

This is the regime of private censorship and this is already in place.

5 Sept 2018 1:44 AM IST

Social media companies have always had community standards for terms of use and were more limited than the constitutionally protected right to free speech.

Save the internet from corporate censorship

This is the regime of private censorship and this is already in place.

5 Sept 2018 1:44 AM IST

Asking social media firms to perform censorship functions is very dangerous because the State is abdicating its role.

Private censorship

Both Facebook and the government must take a relook objectively at how hate messages spread.

5 Sept 2018 1:39 AM IST

People take to the streets regularly to protest against the increasing levels of gender-based violence in the country.

The terror of masculinity: Abuse of power to show manliness

Ideological masculinity feels threatened under the perpetuation of gender equality.

22 Aug 2018 1:48 AM IST

Globally, violence against women has been treated by international institutions as a â€œglobal pandemicâ€ (World Bank), as a â€œglobal issueâ€ (Unesco) and as a â€œmajor public health problemâ€ (WHO).

The terror of masculinity: It's violent extremism and terrorism

Women are subjected to threats of rape and murder that are both designed to evoke fear and force them back back to the...

22 Aug 2018 1:32 AM IST