Miko 2 and robots like it want to be friends
It was almost ten years ago when Sherry Turkle warned that the world was headed for a place where humans would ...
Comfort stations to the rescue
Himachal Pradesh is innovating with community sanitary complexes across districts
When parched fields bloomed with flow of water
An initiative to build groundwater reserves has turned farmers’ fortunes in Raigad district
Project with a difference
To empower rural women and provide them employment, a new group enterprise model has taken shape in Bilaspur, ...
Know what your home insurance will not cover
Insuring you home will make you feel safe; it is safer still to understand the exclusions
Aluminium prices to be impacted by weak global economy
Weak demand and excess supply in the market to affect prices; slowdown in auto industry, the largest consumer, ...
Gold likely to extend the bull run
But silver outlook remains unclear as it faces critical resistance
Big Story: What is the actual fiscal deficit?
In the Budget this year, besides the fisc ratio, pay attention to the critical factors that help understate ...
Sixth anniversary special edition
Celebrate BLink’s sixth birthday with this special anniversary issue; exclusive short stories and poems by ...
Bookkeeper of nature’s services
Pavan Sukhdev is co-winner of this year’s prestigious Tyler Prize — the ‘Nobel for environment’ — for ...
To everything, there is a season
A time to kill, and a time to heal, a time to break down, and a time to build up– Ecclesiastes, Ch 3, verse ...
Classical conditioning
With the shrill callof mom’sHawkins Classicfive litre pressure cooker,the aroma of muttoncooked in a coarse ...
Takeaways for marketers from CES 2020
The big P-word — privacy — and other dominating consumer themes from the global stage of innovation
New Year’s Blues
Celebrating the many shades of blue, which is the colour of 2020
When storytelling trumps statistics
Four Seasons’s Envoy programme gives a new spin to the concept by choosing content over followers
Year in Review: Winning ways of brands in 2019
Which advertising campaigns stood out and why
The trauma of internet shutdown
Shutdowns in India in 2019 are estimated to have led to a loss of over $1.3 billion. Forum Gandhi reports on ...
Agri business and tourism bear the brunt
Small traders of farm produce took a big hit with disruption in online bill processing
Trends up to January 8, 2020
Type of shutdownOf the 381 internet shutdowns recorded between January 2012 and January 4, 2020, 236 were ...
Come and see the students on the streets
The protests over CAA-NRC-NPR have acted as a trigger, uniting youth across religious beliefs and communities ...