Revelations that make us think we all have been at least a little racist at some point — “Have you watched Aladdin? I could have never imagined Will Smith as Genie. He did an amazing job!” “Yeah, he did. Did you know the girl who played Jasmin was Indian?” I said. “Oh really, she didn’t look Indian though,” said my friend from Vietnam.. I smiled. And then I…

Because it defeats the whole point Here’s an opinion of a dark-skinned Indian woman whose parents didn’t raise her with the entitlement of a tall, blond, white man. They raised her with the entitlement of an Indian woman, that wasn’t any less: Dear white, brown and black friends (words to never define your friends with), I…

Water stations are getting shut down during the coronavirus pandemic — a necessary evil — taking a toll at many water-scarce countries If you come from a hot country — or one where water is not always something you get from a tap in your home — you know bottled water doesn’t last very long. People in many countries in the world still do not have access to widespread potable tap-water. …

If you’re stuck home with your loved ones, it’s probably a good time. For me, it’s a little different. I went to the restroom at a restaurant. I washed my hands, opened the door with my elbow, raised the toilet seat with my foot, switched on the water faucet with a tissue and then opened the bathroom door to leave with my elbow. When I returned to my table…

Breaking down the social implications of facial recognition technology In May 1999, Wang Hua gave birth to a boy in the Chinese province of Sichuan in Dujiangyan. At the age of five, the child was kidnapped while playing near a construction site where his father worked. He was sold to child traffickers for the equivalent of 2000 dollars. After…

I woke up one morning to an email from Nova Blooms in my inbox. My friend, Ingrid Tenekam from Cameroon had given herself a cool nickname. She had asked me to register for the third annual Global Science, Technology, & Innovation Conference (G-STIC) organised by UN Major Group of Children…

They say change is the only constant. But it doesn’t make it less scary. It hit me when I was 18 before I came to Germany. I wanted to be an actor, a filmmaker, an architect, a designer, an engineer, all at once. You wouldn’t believe my mother is a…

बस का इंतज़ार करते हुय, मेट्रो में खड़े खड़े, रिक्शा में बैते हुय, गेहरे शुन्या मे क्या देखते रहते हो? क्या खोया, क्या पाया का हिसाब ना लागा पाये इस बार भी, घर ना जा पाये इस बार भी? -जाकिर खान Waiting for the bus, standing in the metro, sitting in a rickshaw, in deep slumber, what do you keep watching? What’s lost, what’s found, couldn’t calculate this time too? Couldn’t go home this time too? -Zakhir Khan

Hochschule Rhein-Waal professor William Megill sheds some light on student issues such as tuition fees and shares some cool solutions in technology towards sustainability. — On a recent afternoon in the middle of the farms in Bedburg-Hau, somewhere on the border of Germany and the Netherlands, I walked to the living room of a seemingly quirky house to find Prof. Dr. William Megill sitting by the window. …