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Globally, violence against women has been treated by international institutions as a “global pandemic” (World Bank), as a “global issue” (Unesco) and as a “major public health problem” (WHO).

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The terror of masculinity: It’s violent extremism and terrorism

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Women are subjected to threats of rape and murder that are both designed to evoke fear and force them back back to the domestic sphere.

There are laws and UN declarations to ban these patriarchal, anti-woman practices, but without much success. (Photo: Representational image)

Patriarchy made woman ‘the other’

Virginity rituals, menstrual segregation, taboos on women’s entry in places of worship are all patriarchal cultural customs.

08 Aug 2018 2:18 AM

The problem is the hypocrisy in Indian society, a manifestation of the deep-rooted patriarchy

Culture may be the great leveller

Studies point out that women of different families within the same group or even of different groups forge stable ties among them.

08 Aug 2018 2:00 AM

The early phase of internet in the 1990s-early 2000 was not highly commercialised. (Representational image)

Information turns into power, absolutely

A lot of code is now produced by machines and it is very difficult to separate this beyond a point.

29 Jul 2018 5:49 AM

he Conversation article on information warfare being more dangerous than cyber warfare refers to the kind of danger that presents in terms of a takeover, a kind of invasion of the mind and the cognitive terrain.

Toxic information warfare on net defies solutions

People with similar views come together and it becomes a vicious cycle of the same news circulating within the same group.

29 Jul 2018 5:44 AM

People born in the 1940s are likely to be different from those born in the 1970s or 1990s. If you have a teenager son or daughter and you are urban middle class, chances are that s/he is going to stand up and make you feel outdated. They are better socialised in the use of mobile technology than the older generation is.

India remains status conscious

We have the google generation. But everyone does not become addicted to google.

23 Jul 2018 1:02 AM

The naming of generations and subsequently ascribing rather broad personality attributes such as altruism and narcissism, has been popularised greatly in several disciplines, in particular human relations and organisational behaviour.

Dynamics of generations

The term millennials was first used by Neil Howe and William Strauss in their book Generations (1991).

23 Jul 2018 12:57 AM

With digitisation happening at such pace in the country and penetration of the internet extending to the rural spaces, it has become imperative to talk about stopping the spread of fake news.

Time fake news is nipped in the bud

With digitisation developing at breakneck speed it has become imperative to talk about stopping the spread of fake news.

19 Jul 2018 7:16 AM

Fake news isn’t easy to find as people continue to passively scroll through it instead of probing it.

Fake news cannot be unseen

Sometimes we can identify news as fake and many times we cannot.

19 Jul 2018 7:13 AM

India has been branded the most dangerous country for women and the USA third, along with Syria, on factors of sexual violence, harassment and coercion into sex.

Survey trashes India, US on women

Critics call it a survey based on perceptions, not data.

08 Jul 2018 3:30 AM

Diversity policy has been in effect at Harvard and all the other Ivy League colleges for many years.

Race neutrality helps students grow

Many states in India follow the reservations policy as part of affirmative action and social engineering.

04 Jul 2018 4:46 AM

Today, the average percentage of Jewish students is 25 per cent on Ivy League campuses, with a 6-million population. Compare! There are about 20 million AsAms, while Harvard is limiting AsAms on campus to about 20 per cent. There is no reasoning...

Racial bias in US admissions

Allegations of bias against Asian Americans are part of the raging debate in the US.

04 Jul 2018 4:41 AM

Experts believe the system will be able to handle posts containing hate speech, racism and sexism.

AI learns to ditch swear words

The new sentence was then translated back to see how closely it resembled the original.

24 Jun 2018 12:53 AM

Due to Modi floods, all cats, dogs, snakes and mongoose are getting together to contest polls: Amit Shah on Opposition

Time for rhetoric of justice

The language became threatening as a witch-hunt.

24 Jun 2018 12:51 AM

Trump has been a target himself: On the cover of its April 2 issue, New York magazine depicted the President as a pig.

Speech that wreaks havoc

History is replete with instances of the havoc played by dehumanising language.

24 Jun 2018 12:48 AM

Why do people want Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs)? People see computerisation as the solution to all our problems.

Onus on poll panel to ensure EVM: EVMs too need a physical record

The best thing we can do with modern technology is to have a parallel record, a paper record and electronic record

19 Jun 2018 3:48 AM

Reports of malfunctioning Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) in the recently-concluded bypolls for national and state Assemblies have once again raised questions about the credibility of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs).

Onus on poll panel to ensure EVM: Glitches apart, EVMs are necessary

Every time a party loses an election, it blames the machine.

19 Jun 2018 3:41 AM

Representational image.

Europe can demolish at will

Dams, natural or manmade, across drainage systems, vary depending upon the order of stream in a hydrologic sense.

12 Jun 2018 12:56 AM

Even in the US and Europe, the talk of dam removal is largely confined to small dams which were constructed for mining and other local developments.

No swadeshi takers for the clamour

Dams serve multiple purposes in managing the regimes of rivers and also water security for large parts of the basin.

12 Jun 2018 12:52 AM

Data predict that it will take more than 200 years before there are equal numbers of men and women working in senior roles in physics, given current trends.

STEM the gender gap

Despite recent progress, the gender gap appears likely to persist for generations, particularly in computer science, physics, and maths.

03 Jun 2018 7:26 AM

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Sports Gallery

Virat Kohli's India completed a historic Test series triumph after beatiung Australia 2-1 with one match ending in a draw. (Photo: AP)

In pictures: Memorable moments from India's tour of Australia

After finishing the 2018 Commonwealth Games on a good note, there will be high expectations from India. (Photo: PTI)

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France clinched their second World Cup title after they beat a gritty Croatian side 4-2 in the final. The Les Blues ended a 20-year wait as Didier Deschamps' men brought the trophy back home. (Photo: AP)

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FIFA World Cup 2018: Biggest moments from the group stage so far

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2018 FIFA World Cup: Teams gear up for football extravaganza in Russia

Making a comeback to the Indian Premier League (IPL) after two years, MS Dhoni-led Chennai Super Kings beat Sunrisers Hyderabad to clinch their third IPL title. (Photo: BCCI)

In pics: From 2008 to 2018: IPL champions over the past 11 seasons

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