Separations after age 50 can bring relief, particularly for men when the relationship has been burdensome, finds new research by the University of Cologne.

A son shoots his mother on Mother’s Day. Two brothers become sworn enemies over a narrow strip of farmland. An old woman spends her final years abandoned in the corner of a city flat, unwanted and unheard. A young corporate employee, crushed by loneliness, attempts suicide. These are not scenes from a dark television crime series. They are fragments of modern India’s unsettling social reality.

What's for dinner tonight? It is the most ordinary question in homes everywhere. Sometimes it's asked with affection, sometimes with impatience, and sometimes it becomes the last question anyone ever hears.

How does love really begin? Does it arrive carrying a bouquet of roses? Does soft music suddenly float through a moonlit night? Do flowers rain from the heavens while violins play in the background? Films and television would have us believe so.

The safety lock on a fairground ride in Agra came undone, sending a young man on a one-way journey to eternity. In Belanganj, an excavation caused an entire bank building to collapse. Shoe factories catch fire with disturbing regularity. Poor maintenance traps people inside malfunctioning elevators. Daily crashes on expressways have become too numerous to count. The only people seemingly untouched by this brutal system are politicians, who invariably appear only at condolence meetings and funeral feasts.

Income disparity between partners at home stalls women’s careers, even when they earn more than their male partners, finds research by NEOMA Business School.

In a significant ruling delivered on 8 January, the Karnataka High Court quashed the FIR in Abuzar Ahmed & Others vs State of Karnataka, sending out yet another stern reminder that Section 498A of the IPC cannot be invoked to settle personal scores or ordinary marital disagreements.

What does it mean to be a “common man” in India today? Is it an identity, or merely a lifelong compulsion to endure? In Digital India, you are not first a citizen, you are a number: Aadhaar, PAN, credit card, OTP, voter ID. Your existence is neatly catalogued, your dignity less so...

In a cramped one-room house in Hubballi, 28-year-old Suresh’s mother still waits for the sound of his scooter each evening. He had married just 11 months earlier. The wedding photos—bright, garish, indulgent—are still up on the wall, but the man in them is gone. His death was officially recorded under ‘marriage-related problems’, a category that, for the first time in 2023, saw more men dying by suicide than women in India.

Everyday consumption habits play a vital role in community healing following terrorist attacks, finds new research from NEOMA Business School.