New Year’s Day is traditionally a time for looking forward and resolving to do better this year. In The Last Heroes: Foot Soldiers of Indian Freedom, Sainath calls on us to remember those who fought in the freedom movement but have been forgotten. Such a state of affairs leads to stagnation and paralysis in human progress.” Sainath argues that our …
Selecting the best non fiction books of any particular year out of the enormous literature produced by the virtue of human ingenuity is a tedious task. **The Invisible Kingdom, Author: Meghan O’Rourke ** “The Invisible Kingdom- Reimagining Chronic Illness” by Yale Review editor Meghan O’Rourke’s heart wrenching and thoroughly researched exploration of the pain and confusion that many of us …
KABUL : Rank-and-file Taliban fighters have been having too much fun in Kabul after seizing the Afghan capital without a fight last month, and the Taliban leadership has now issued a stern order to stop. Thousands of young Taliban men from all over the country, many of whom have never been to a big city before, were deployed in Kabul …
Immunity To COVID-19 Could Last Longer Than You'd Think Enlarge this image Malaka Gharib/ NPR Malaka Gharib/ NPR All around the world, there seem to be signs that immunity to SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes the disease COVID-19, doesn't last very long after you're vaccinated. "If you were vaccinated six months ago, your immune system has been training for six …