Evidence is an important part of everyday lives. From choosing fuel for our vehicle, why CNG is environment friendly, to something as big as a court case, everything has its basis on the evidence. From choosing between jobs and to ubiquitous religious belief. The outcome of many criminal law cases depends upon the strength and admissibility of evidence-including physical proof, scientific evidence and witness testimony, owing to enactment of Indian Evidence Act in 1872. Access to accurate and...

The recent amendments to the Child Labour Act passed by the Cabinet last month allow for children below the age of 14 to work in non-hazardous industries or ‘family businesses’, so long as this does not affect their education. Response to the amendment has been mixed, with 

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Just when the entire world has started clamouring about the new book on inequality by French economist Thomas Piketty, it becomes essential to mention a UNDP report on the same subject that was released in early 2014. Entitled: Humanity divided: Confron...

Srikantadatta Narasimharaja Wadiyar, just Srikant as he preferred to be called, the Maharaja of Mysore is no more. A man born 6 years after independence and the loss of his Kingdom to the Union of India, was hugely respected and revered in the old Mysore State, even though he never ruled the State of Mysore /Karnataka. Why ? What did he do to earn the adulation of the masses? Why was he revered at a time when the so called Modern school of thought derided royalty and everything royal ( excep...

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More than 110 million youth, men and women in the age group 15-32 migrate from their place of origin for a number of reasons. Cens...

With all the variety of foods available on city streets and malls one would imagine that urban youth is relatively well-fed and healthy.  But data does not support this perception.

Undernourishment in India is highest among the youth. In urban areas, according to a survey-based estimate (NFHS –III) nearly half the population young men and women are abnormally thin. Poor nutrition is related to income.  And this clearly accounts for the high-incidence of...

“Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas”; said Albert Einstein. This simply means that mathematics isn’t as complicated as it seems. It is just a set of logic put together. It does not just make you smart and have various career opportunities but also teaches you a way of life. Mathematics is a universal part of human culture.

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 Even as debates on the different measures of poverty levels and poverty lines run their course, there is an uncounted population which is struggling to find its identity. This is the growing numbers of internal migrants of India that are largely invisible.

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Medical school began with a series of “introduction to medicine” lectures. One of them was on communication, taught by the same professor who introduced us to medical ethics. In the medical ethics class, through a case-discussion, she impressed upon us the need for being non-judgmental when dealing with patients. She did a fantastic job, considering she had just one 45 minute lecture. Her lecture on communications, though, is a blur. In my defense it was 11 years ago and I rem...

In these difficult times we live in, what economics needs is perhaps, depth and not breadth. Unemployment, poverty, inflation, food insecurity, financial fragility, debt crisis, etc can be better understood and tackled by diverting increased resources (time and financial) in understanding the production, distribution, exchange and consumption of wealth. This blog post very briefly examines Thomas Malthus’s (1766-1834) view of political economy – its method, scope, uses and limitat...