Society and Life

The Ugly Truth About Fashion Waste The fashion industry sells us a dream—fresh trends, low prices, and the thrill of new collections. But behind the polished ads and influencer hauls lies a dirty secret: Fashion is one of the most…

Picture this: You’re craving a chocolate bar at midnight, and in just ten minutes, it arrives at your doorstep. No hassle, no waiting. Sounds magical, doesn’t it? That’s the power of quick commerce, a revolutionary service that promises…

The prestigious Holberg Prize 2025 has been won by our very own Professor Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. It is a triumph not only for India but the entire South-East Asia. She is a stalwart in the field of postcolonial studies, feminist…

Time-a notion so basic yet so deep, escaping our grasp like sand between fingers. We quantify it, pursue it, and often long to reverse it. It is both transient and boundless, a presence that pervades all around us, yet is without material…

The lion (panthera leo) belongs to genus Panthera which in turn belongs to the family Felidae. It includes cats of all types with differing perspectives towards humans as either masters or food. There exist only two subspecies of lion now:…

The monotony for a single man working in vast sea of unknown humans called Mumbai had begun setting in. I walked into the BNHS office with lot of hope and curiosity. It’s an NGO working in the field of wildlife research and nature…

'Uttam Mohanty, the all-time superstar of the Odia film industry (Ollywood), is no more.' This news struck like a bolt from the blue when I received the sad news of his passing from my friend Chinmay Daspatnaik (Kaku) on the morning of…

Standing in the front of the mirror, she was longing to put on a red bindi. To some, it might seem like a trivial matter ("it is just a bindi"), but for her, it is now a wish unlikely to come true; last year, her husband passed away in an…

It’s been nearly two years since I last met Kaka. When he had called back then, for a stag get together planned in Lonavala, there was no reason to say no. Lonavala is gorgeous in monsoon as ever and my college friends had only got worse…

Our earliest ancestors displayed bipedalism much before the human brain enlarged in size. The ability to walk on two limbs freed their two other limbs which would help them to create tools to be used in hunting for food. Their ability to…