Fit for exam, but unfit for babudom.
Byline: Rema Nagarajan NEW DELHI: May 8, 2006. That's the day when 12 candidates with different kinds of disabilities were selected in the all-India civil service examinations 2005 batch, filling the 3% quota for disabled for the first time since the Disability Act was passed in 1995....

Mumbaikars opting for a quieter festival.
MUMBAI: This Diwali, your eardrums might just get some respite from the onslaught of noisy crackers. Weary with the noise that accompanies the festival every year, Mumbaikars are increasingly opting for a quieter season. "I bought my daughter a pistol for Diwali last year but this year,...

Foreword.
The last half-century has seen a revolution in the biological sciences of the same order as the one that took place in atomic physics earlier in the twentieth century. The discovery of the basic structure of DNA has ushered in developments of the kind that were unthinkable only a...

Cheaper cure for neonatal jaundice.
Byline: SEETHALAKSHMI S BANGALORE: An inexpensive device to treat neonatal jaundice, developed by an Indian boy, can save the lives of millions of poor children across the world. Vijay Anand, a student of Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University, US, has developed a light...

Prez Kalam lends an ear to special cause.
Byline: Navneet Anand NEW DELHI: For Tanya(4), Smriti(7), Ayushi(9) and Sajal(15) this Saturday was very special as the once deaf and dumb not only sung the national anthem along with the President of India, but also lived the hope of a technology-enabled society where the silent stigma...

Giuliani Time.
Those who hate the authoritarian, larger than life Rudy Giuliani usually do so with such blind ferocity that they have difficulty admitting that he ever effected positive changes in governing New York City. Giuliani may have had few answers to the problems of urban education and poverty, but the...

From Pity to Pride: Growing Up Deaf in the Old South.
From Pity to Pride: Growing Up Deaf in the Old South. By Hannah Joyner (Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet University Press, 2004. xii + 210 pp. $49.95). Over the past generation, a major task of social history has been to tell the stories of groups that had historically been...

Watch this space.
Byline: Sharan Apparao Having been in the art trade for over two decades and seen the field evolve to what it is today, I can say that it has been a fantastic experience. Art is an acquired taste and one has to train one's eyes and mind...

Boozers risk hearing impairment.
Byline: Ashish Tripathi LUCKNOW: There is always a lull before the storm. But for alcoholics, it seems to be the other way round. Studies revealed that hearing power in an occasional drinker increases along with the gush in the blood circulation soon after taking two pegs of...

Discrimination on the basis of height.
Height, especially for men, has historically correlated with social power. It helps to be taller in politics. In the last 100 years, the taller man has won the presidential election in the United States in all but three elections, the last being one of them. Height in our society...