India’s budding home school movement

A nascent home schooling movement is gathering momentum countrywide. A growing minority of disillusioned parents are switching to customised home education for their children instead of sentencing them to overcrowded classrooms in which little learning happens

Colours and corals of the Maldives

With sea levels reportedly rising by one-two inches per year because of global warming, there’s a strong possibility that many of the 1,196 islands constituting the Maldives may disappear underwater in the near future. Advice to adventurers: visit sooner than later