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India and the US have much in common: diversity, an anti-imperial legacy, deep social segregation, and an avowed commitment to people’s rule. The past few months have seen chillingly similar political winds sweeping through the two nations as well.

Every morning, Savitri, a 20-year-old student living in rural Tamil Nadu, wakes up at 5 am to prepare breakfast and lunch for her mother, father, and sister.

Recently, a dear friend sent me the lovely illustrated book Embroideries by the Iranian writer Marjane Satrapi. I had read it before but didn’t own a copy. I was excited to reread it. I rushed through it in a couple of hours. (If you haven’t read this yet, I can’t recommend it enough.

The most important asymmetry between a doctor and patient is the asymmetry of knowledge. The doctor generally knows much more about what is going on in the patient’s body, what needs to be done about the same, and what is the likely outcome, than what most patients will ever know.

Indians are anything but good paymasters when it comes to domestic help. Close to 20 million people, mostly women, work as cooks, cleaners, and maids in India.

Thousands of people are battling deadly forest fires in India's northern Himalayan state of Uttarakhand. At least two people have died in the fires, which have torched more than 1,900 hectares (4,700 acres) of forest, officials said.

Banning menstruating women to enter places of worship by priests is not new in India. What is interesting is that a few fundamentalist forces want to nurture and continue this practice in the name of religion and cultural practices.

MANY prophets of information technology (IT) believe that the next big movement in their field will be the “internet of things”.