Both the prime minister and the health secretary have proposed that weight-loss jabs would help the unemployed return to the workplace. Archbishop Justin Welby has described a parliamentary bill that would give terminally ill people in England and Wales the right to end their lives as “dangerous”. There are many complex discussions to be had around this issue, but do …
Even as the Southwest monsoon retreats along parts of northern Karnataka, Telangana, Odisha, Bengal and the northeastern States in October, it is leaving a trail of destruction in several districts. While the heaviest recent downpour has been reported from west Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, east Rajasthan and Uttarakhand, with as much as 31 cm in Sheopur on Monday, there has been …
As we embark on a new decade, how do visions of the 2020s — imagined in books like Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, films like Soylent Green, or even manga like Ghost in the Shell —match up against our reality? Illustration by Trisha Bose Set around two years from now, Soylent Green shows us a 2022 New York where …
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