Category: Did You Know?

Fighting climate change by minimizing food waste

Subhadip Senapati and Narayan Barman
Is there a link between food waste and climate change? With nearly a third of the world’s food going to waste, the environmental and economic consequences are profound. Subhadip Senapati suggests practical steps we can take collectively to reduce food waste and mitigate climate change.

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Themes that go unnoticed

Aishwarya Ramesh
The books that we read have a lot to say to us. While some of these messages are clearly written out, others are more subtly woven in and will only reveal themselves to the careful reader.

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Know your pi and eat it too!

Sundaram S
The pie is a mysterious and fascinating number; the more you try to understand it the more surprises it throws up at you. Here are some interesting facts about this number.

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Did you know?

The United Nations has declared this year, 2011, as the International Year of Forests. The idea is to focus attention on the need to preserve and protect our rapidly declining forest reserves.

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