Mridula Ramesh News Today

Unveiled portrait of Raja Ravi Varmas granddaughter, Maharani Sethu Lakshmi Bayi, as a toddler on display in Bengaluru till May 30. 

Dams, protests, siltation, lost trees all play a role as water goes missing. What can we do to prepare for a new reality, amid climate change?

This year’s edition of the Jaipur Literature Festival was attended by a range of celebrated authors from Paul Lynch and Georgi Gospodinov to Perumal Murugan, Shyam Selvadurai and Kai Bird. This ability to gather some of the finest minds from around the world under one roof remains the festival’s unique selling proposition

Its been a rapid slide for the continent of ice, which was expanding until 2014. Mridula Ramesh on an ancient past, near future,and trade-offs to be made today

We can be guided, this year, by a simple truth: Change is wrought most profoundly by how we act. What we choose to do; buy (and not buy); and what we vote on.

Ecoil, a pioneering eco-friendly gasoline production startup, has secured INR 3 Crores in a funding round led by The Chennai Angels, with participation from

What else can fabrics be? Try AI-led storytelling tools, art, saris that weave ancient arts together. Artists are saying: Look, can you even tell this is cloth?

Some aspects of climate action ask us to consume less. Economics can be an awkward envoy for this message. Faith asks us to step lightly, see divinity in all.

There are lessons to be learnt from Swadeshi, and why Gandhi was so concerned with fabrics. Follow that thread all the way to our ties to cotton, carbon today.

A new monthly column by Mridula Ramesh aims to contextualise daily decisions – all the way from the personal (how to move around) to the political (how to vote)