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Despite the Great Depression of 1930s or the recent Great Recession, the constancy of the long-run growth rate has been miraculous. Low-income countries, including China and India, have been growing at a faster pace and are quickly catching up to the West.

World better place now: Seven reasons why lives of people have...

Many people even in advanced economies do not know that the world is graduating into a much better place.

20 Jan 2019 1:01 AM IST

The book by Thomas Picketty, Capital in 21st Century, has clearly described how inequalities in advanced and other countries have gone up and this is becoming a menace to social life.

World better place now: It's not all that rosy as data show

Undoubtedly the world has become a better place to live in when compared with the past three centuries.

20 Jan 2019 1:00 AM IST

Childrens vulnerabilities tend to respond to love or fear from persons in a position of authority, and their developing selves may not lend them the convictions needed to keep out of nefarious engagement.

Age of juvenile detention: At what age is one old enough to...

The brain matures through three decades and its development is conditioned by social underpinnings.

13 Jan 2019 12:54 AM IST

Unfortunately after 25 years of endorsement of UNCRC majority of our children face abominable and excruciating situation in their day today life.

Age of juvenile detention: Intervention among kids in conflict with...

The Justice Juvenile Act permits a child in conflict with law, who is above the age of 16, to be tried as adult.

13 Jan 2019 12:53 AM IST

Pluralism, education and intellectual competition: These were once Muslim values, and they could be so again.

Muslims in time warp: Into enlightenment from blind following

Instead of the dominant blind, unquestioning obedience to religious dogma, we should teach critical thinking to our...

6 Jan 2019 8:23 AM IST

As the post-truth age is increasingly becoming anti-intellectual all over the world, only a sustainable critical learning of Islam would enable Muslim societies in the world to challenge the issues that they face, within and outside.

Muslims in the post-truth world are caught between extremes

It is interesting to know how Islamic societies across the world encounter three extreme situations simultaneously.

6 Jan 2019 8:20 AM IST

Today we can say test-tube baby technology is ethical, fine and safe after 40 years of the birth of Lousie Brown or Durga.

Creating perfect babies: Futuristic babies

The ethics: Can we deny ourselves benefits of DNA technology?

23 Dec 2018 1:11 AM IST

The first designer baby , whose birth in America made international headlines, has rekindled furious debate about the ethical issues of using genetics to select the attributes of babies. Genetic screening was used so that the test-tube baby Adam Nash could become a donor for his six-year-old sister Molly, who has a rare and fatal genetic disease. But whilst the case has inspired sympathy, it has also increased fears of babies becoming commodities where intelligence and athletic prowess are bought. The genetic Pandoras box is open. Mark Oliver guides you through the ethical minefield.

Creating perfect babies: Scientists can design better babies for the...

The zygote travels to the uterus and attaches to the inner wall of the uterus and grows into a baby.

23 Dec 2018 1:07 AM IST

Raging debates between conversion and reconversion have produced not merely forms of symbolic violence but resulted in actual physical violence.

Yoke of conversion: For dalits, it's out of the pan into the fire

It's true conversion was a gateway to a better life, free of the yoke of casteism.

16 Dec 2018 12:10 AM IST

Raging debates between conversion and reconversion have produced not merely forms of symbolic violence but resulted in actual physical violence.

Yoke of conversion: Good Samaritan never forced any conversions

Read the parable of the Good Samaritan, who comes to the rescue of the much reviled Jew, waylaid and forsaken.

16 Dec 2018 12:10 AM IST

The alternative to boredom is chaos and addiction. Human beings seem to prefer anything, utter misery or even wars, over being bored.

Boredom, mother of creativity: Brain research throws up the power of...

When fed with music, the entire brain-sphere is aglow, showing that the power of music influences every part of the...

9 Dec 2018 1:30 AM IST

The alternative to boredom is chaos and addiction. Human beings seem to prefer anything, utter misery or even wars, over being bored.

Boredom, mother of creativity: Way out of boredom is through it

Academics are awaiting clinching evidence before listing the benefits of boredom.

9 Dec 2018 1:30 AM IST