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The stereo typed image of a benign,smiling, sedate Dadi whose sole purpose in life should be making jars of delectable pickle, observing all kinds of ritualistic practices, chanting with a rosary in hand during her… Source link

Hey Delhi, The yellow fairy lights have sheathed you with glittering gold. It feels out of all the festivities, you have a special place for Diwali. You weathered the scorching summer, ruthless rains, and now, with the sweet cold breeze, each one of us is going to light diyas and draw rangolis—making way for happiness…

When the women entry controversy at Sabarimala hill shrine, which attracts millions of devotees from all religions and castes, especially from November to January every year, reigned in 2017, it started a constitutional morality versus religious morality debate among believers. At the end, religious traditionalism won. But now a trail of theft and betrayal behind…

Diversity is more than representation. It’s about the valuable insights and unique perspectives that collaborative thinking brings, especially with people from different backgrounds, cultures, or disciplines. Diversity at its best fosters unconventional thinking. Research consistently demonstrates the positive impact of diverse teams. A study by McKinsey & Company found that companies in the top quartile for gender…

Activist Sunitha Krishnan, known for her role in drafting Kerala’s Nirbhaya policy, was in the state last week for Cocon-2025. She also interacted with students of UC College, Aluva. A rape survivor herself, Sunitha shared with TOI how she transformed personal trauma into a mission — rescuing and rehabilitating survivors of sexual abuse through her…

Climate change is an ongoing and significant global challenge, backed by compelling evidence from scientific reports. Notably, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) provide critical data that fuels the discussion surrounding this issue. According to the “State of the Global Climate 2024,” released by WMO, human-induced climate change…

Thirty years of ‘Diwale Dulhania Le Jayenge’, the film that invited a subset of urbane women to ‘come fall in love’. My qualifications to trace its journey involve being an accidental chronicler of the economics and mathematics of Shah Rukh Khan and his female fans. For fifteen years, I thought I was interviewing women about…

In an all-too-familiar headline, China’s ministry of commerce announced new and wide-ranging export controls on rare earth elements (REEs) and related technologies from December 1, 2025. The latest export controls on REEs have become a familiar move in its geopolitical playbook, designed to create short-term buzz ahead of high-stakes trade negotiations. Old hand: Beijing’s threats…

India could tap into vast natural hydrogen reserves, offering a low-carbon, cost-effective alternative to manufactured hydrogen. Strategic exploration and infrastructure development may transform India’s hydrogen economy, reduce import dependence, and create new investment opportunities in clean energy. As India accelerates its journey toward a net-zero energy transition by 2070, the search for sustainable and alternative  energy…

I have come across various ways of defining Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs). Many of them miss a fundamental characteristic of theirs. An ANN is a machine learning model. Like all machine learning models, an ANN algorithm determines the relationship between the inputs (a bunch of independent variables) and the output (one dependent variable) when provided…