Journalist par excellence, Rhodes scholar and former prime time anchor on the news network CNN-IBN, Sagarika Ghose sat down in conversation with our MTTN Team, over tea in the lobby of Fortune Inn Valley View. Through the course of an hour-long interview, she talked to us about the shift of … Continue Reading
Global Warming Debunked. Spoiler Alert: It’s clearly not real
How often do we see people campaigning for climate change out in the streets on busy afternoons holding banners and placards that say “We have only one earth, save it,” or something more modest like “Our planet is in the danger of global warming, and my ice cream is melting … Continue Reading
Reality in the Post-Truth Era
“You’re saying it’s a falsehood while Sean Spicer, our press secretary gave alternative facts to that” – A Spokesperson for the President of the United States.
The need to find a balance, and to assert that each side has its own merits and demerits is a part of conventional wisdom. … Continue Reading
A post-Trump, post-Brexit, rise of Nationalism in Europe.
Terror attacks, illegal immigration, unemployment, loss of life, racism, are a few of the global reasons that have led to a worldwide rise of right-wing parties to power over the course of a couple of years.
The Premise.
Rewind about a year, and Donald Trump was just an eccentric billionaire … Continue Reading
Manipal Ally March
An ordinary Sunday afternoon took a sudden turn, as a large, colourful group of students, bearing balloons and banners, and chanting slogans took over the streets, on the 5th of February, 2017, as Manipal witnessed its first ever LGBTQ Ally March. This event was made a success due to … Continue Reading
#YesAllWomen
It’s been almost a month since we flinched at our TV screens and shrank at the sheer atrocities women of this nation face.
Sigh.
We know how 2017 started off. The initial uproar has died down, but let’s recall what happened anyway.
On 31/12, thousands of people gathered in … Continue Reading
Syrian Civil War: A Low-Down
Lincoln said, “Be not deceived. Revolutions do not go backwards”. Had he been present in today’s world, he may have had a different opinion about Syria.
You may have come across the words ‘Aleppo’, and ‘Assad’, in recent weeks, all over social media, even if you don’t follow the news … Continue Reading