Green Highways are not just about planting trees but a concept of enhancing environmental sustainability of highway investments and operations by enhancing the climate change mitigation (GHG emissions) and adaptation during construction, maintenance and operation of highways and road traffic. It has to include better focus on the engineering aspects right from design, to material usage, waste reduction, and recycling and reuse.
Dr A. K Bhattacharya, IFS (Retd) MD of the National Green Highways Mission, in a interview outlines the strategy being deployed and the progress made so far in the effort to green the highways
Every internet user has become a 'Modern Major General'--and if we shouldn't find each other ludicrous, it's because we are all dressed in patchwork uniforms of information
YouTube inverted the entire logic of scarcity and desire that drove us on hot, lonely afternoons to tiny cassette shops
Sexual violence against women is fine, exploitation too. But the heavens will come crashing if she watches porn. And yet she does!
Choice has shrunk for virtual Jack Sparrows—alas, writes Martand Badoni. Then there’s Netflix.
Satish Padmanabhan on how food delivery apps bring the best of delicacies to your doorstep in no time
WhatsApp did what Facebook couldn’t—it reached most of our tier-III towns and villages alongwith internet and smartphone
Dr A. K Bhattacharya, IFS (Retd) MD of the National Green Highways Mission, in a interview outlines the strategy being deployed and the progress made so far in the effort to green the highways
Every internet user has become a 'Modern Major General'--and if we shouldn't find each other ludicrous, it's because we are all dressed in patchwork uniforms of information
YouTube inverted the entire logic of scarcity and desire that drove us on hot, lonely afternoons to tiny cassette shops
Sexual violence against women is fine, exploitation too. But the heavens will come crashing if she watches porn. And yet she does!
Choice has shrunk for virtual Jack Sparrows—alas, writes Martand Badoni. Then there’s Netflix.
Satish Padmanabhan on how food delivery apps bring the best of delicacies to your doorstep in no time
Apps serving up law are already active; many new ideas await developers
Mobile wallets are taking over the way Indians pay
WhatsApp did what Facebook couldn’t—it reached most of our tier-III towns and villages alongwith internet and smartphone
Forget sloth! Fitness apps are here to exorcise the lazy monster in you
Wikipedia stores all the free-flowing information we need
LinkedIn connects job-seekers and providers
Stuti Agarwal on the Instagram experience
Skype keeps the flame alive across 500 miles or more
Dating apps foster relationships with no strings attached
Bibek Bhattacharya takes a look at five unique apps that cover all your wandering and vacationing needs
Stuti Agarwal on the ephemeral Snapchat
Siddhartha Mishra on Pokemon mania, a gateway to VR revolution
E-tailing has rewritten the rules of selling—and how!
Confession: I took a Facebook daily-fix break before writing this. Pl like and share!
Narcissism is everywhere. Leave the selfie alone.
‘Secularism’ inhabits twin strands—one simply strives to control religion; another, more composite view, allows plural views on faith to coexist. Charting secularism’s progress in France and the US, Charles Taylor alights on the passionate debate it is generating in modern Europe and India.
It’s the season of predictions, so let’s be audacious: Twitter will be the human race’s #pathtosurvival
Books were once engaged in with lusty physicality. Now, a tablet’s cool glow gives quiet satisfaction.
As Outlook celebrates its 21st anniversary, we look at the exciting and ominous possibilities ahead
Vetri Maaran on cinema in times of the ubiquitous camera, multiple screens for consumption and the democratisation of the craft.
Technology is not in itself a disruption, but a partner in jugalbandi with the ‘old’. But we must hearken to music’s politics as much as to its aesthetics.
Exactly a hundred years ago, the Great War was in full blast. The shock waves it set off still influence ‘modern’ sensibility.
When the Anthropocene winter does come, what will it do to our food?
Four activists and scholars with different religious identities take stock of what has changed for India’s ‘untouchables’ and what remains the same
You could say it’s liberal democracy that grants literature freedom. Or maybe, the other way around. The onus is on the writer to set us free.
The more we endeavour with science, the more we realise we do not know
All that Islam needs for an inclusive, humane future is present in its own resources—scriptural and modern
New languages of politics will help free the system from the grip of corporate power
Exile is a story that starts, and gets repeated, over and over.... This story will never end till the Pandit, the original Kashmiri, recovers what was lost.
