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From Lab to Life: Why Indian Innovation Often Stalls

India is not short of ideas. Every year, universities produce thousands of engineers and researchers, laboratories generate studies, and start-ups promise new solutions in healthcare, technology and sustainability.

Impressive strides in reducing poverty

For quite some time, poverty in developing nations was measured in terms of the proportion of people who couldn’t spend even one dollar in a day.

Preventing child marriage

The Akshaya Tritiya festival in north India is celebrated with great joy and is considered highly auspicious for weddings as it is believed to bring wealth, prosperity, and good luck to the newlyweds.

Saadat Hasan died, but Manto lives on

As we celebrate his birth anniversary every year on 11 May, we remember the writer who inked society as it was, on paper, in all its humanity and inhumanity. After 112 years since his birth, we still read Manto, and his stories make us tremble even today.