THIS summer season in India, schools were ordered to be shut, offices asked their employees to work water supply. But what about those people who are the most vulnerable to the consequences of climate change? Recent studies by the World Health Organization (WHO) and climate agencies have shown that women exhibit a heightened susceptibility to extreme temperatures, heat in particular, as compared to men-especially those women who work without job security and social protection mechanisms.
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Friendship Loveship Hateship
The world is presently battling a loneliness epidemic, but it’s the well-connected’ who are the loneliest. These days, they are looking to make connections at social meet-ups
Scripting Loneliness
With the turn of the millennium, Indian audiences got to see what actually happens when fairytale romance ends and life begins on the big screen
Confined, Constricted
Love and loneliness co-exist in spaces where desires struggle to navigate through narrow lanes, love flounders to flourish in tiny homes and heart-to-heart conversations get muted in the cacophony of everyday drudgery
Rusted Ruins
Archaeology trapped in jingoist trenches
BJP's Delhiverance
The double engine sarkaar will have to show some quick results to Delhi's middle class which has trusted it to improve the city’s infrastructure
AAP Rejected, or BJP Elected?
ls the electorate voting to reject rather than voting to elect?
Crying in Love is to Grow in Love
To be in love is to check one's mortality and start with the quiver of optimism
Half Moon
Desire is not Just about the body but the entire world through the body. In fact, the world becomes the body of the absent lover
Love, Actually
British novelist and scriptwriter David Nicholls is the author of six novels, including the global bestseller One Day (2009).
Big City Blues
Queer people find vibrancy and welcome anonymity in megacities but there is a limit to the choices they offer
