Sir — Every year, just before Durga Puja, people feel the urge to visit Kumartuli. The idol-makers there, however, painstakingly go about their business all year round, working in conditions that ar...

How should growth and development be measured? The dominant tradition, at least in policy circles, continues to be an unhealthy reliance on growth in per capita national income. For instance, governme...

Sir — It was wonderful to see the New Zealand prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, attend the Nelson Mandela Peace Summit at the United Nations with her three-month-old daughter, Neve Te Aroha. The child...

September 10 was World Suicide Prevention Day. On that day this year, according to media reports, a 15-year-old girl in Aligarh set herself alight with kerosene after telling her father that she had b...

An international team of dental researchers on Thursday urged radical reforms in dentistry practices, flagging the lack of adequate evidence for some routinely prescribed treatment protocols and calli...