New satellite imagery released by NASA shows the vast growth of Indian cities in recent years. Huge swaths of northern India, relatively dark in 2012 night shots, are lit up by huge new urban areas in imagery from 2016. This shows how hungry we are for energy! Surat, in north-western Gujarat province, is expected to grow around 10% a year until 2030, "making it the strongest growing city in our global database," according to Oxford Economics. Drastic changes driven by urbani

I decided to delete all my social media accounts. I know, I’m crazy right?! Slipped myself out of Facebook 3 years ago, Instagram a year ago, orkut too, never even bothered checking out twitter, snapchat, tumblr or any other. Messenger, Facebook, and Instagram are three social apps which kept me connected to my life - or so I thought. Event invitations, being tagged in memes, messaging my friends, I was worried if I disconnected I would isolate myself from my friends. This wa

How is it possible? Where will we charge our phones from? Where will we get electricity from? Nature made us, we are nature, we will be nature. Nature has always inspired us and awed us. If you have all seen the TV show Richard Hammond's Engineering Connections (Which I am a big fan of) we see most design & engineering solutions directly come from nature or at least inspired from nature. Inspired by an fern, scientists have developed a new graphene based electrode that could

Located in Gujarat. ANANDI is a NGO which has a group of people helping out and creating self-help groups for the small villages and communities. The communities and their houses are at least a kilometer far from the market. We can find stalls of fishes, prawns, and grocery shops in those areas. Tea shops at Maliya use coal as the burning and heating source for making tea. Each of the tea shop uses one sack of coal for 4 days which costs them around 400 each sack. There wer

Have you ever thought about this? Fixing potholes can make the India Richer! How on Earth is it even possible you may ask. It's simple. Connect the dots, see the system with a Fish Eye Lens. Before we could explain how, let us take a moment to appreciate this man. His name is Baadal Nanjundaswamy. Frustrated by the failure of the BBMP (Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike, the administrative body responsible for the civic and infrastructural assets of Bangalore metropolitan are