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Lauren Singer's Trash is for Tossers: the young woman who made no trash in two years — no new clothes or packaged goods, even making her own cleaning supplies.

Staged harassment videos flooded Indian social media after 2012. They showed the bystander effect in action — but cameras, editing, and spectacle shape what

In November 2014, Jashodaben filed an RTI with Mehsana police asking what security and facilities she was entitled to as the Prime Minister’s wife.

Managing anxiety to tackle a big project, fear to apply for a job — emotional skill matters more than IQ. Here is how to raise a child with high emotional

A 2014 conversation with Koral Dasgupta, author of Power of a Common Man — on Shah Rukh Khan’s marketing genius, her research with 2,000 fans, and writing

A burger costs less than a salad — not by accident. The economics that make ultra-processed calories the cheapest calories, and what they really cost.

Going deaf in his 20s, science writer Frank Swain hacked his hearing aids with a Nesta grant — turning London's Wi-Fi signals into clicks and melodies.

In 2014, a 22-member team of Vedic Brahmins from Karnataka performed yagnas in Oman for the health of Sultan Qaboos — one of the most unusual interfaith

Economist Ramanan Laxminarayan's 2014 TEDMED talk warns that antibiotic overuse — in medicine and farming — is burning through our most finite medical resource.

When Hollaback’s NYC street-harassment video went viral in 2014, India’s IndieTube tested Mumbai: Pooja Singh walked for 10 hours in a skirt — and wasn’t

In 2014, 90-year-old Fort Lauderdale activist Arnold Abbott was arrested under a new city ordinance for doing what he had done for decades: feeding the

A 2014 TI reflection on body image — the ears, the forehead, the endless list — and the Jubilee Project video that asked why children love their bodies more

In November 2014, MPs voted 181–1 on a motion to clarify that sex-selective abortion is illegal in Britain. The vote was symbolic — the law never followed.

In 2014, Kansas mom Amie Logan petitioned Toys 'R' Us to drop the Kardashian Kids clothing line — after the retailer pulled Breaking Bad toys.

An anonymous Bangalore group called The Ugly Indian rejected blame and started spotfixing dirty streets. A TI essay on civic responsibility, from the archives.

In November 2014, Shama and Shehzad Masih were beaten and burned in the Kot Radha Kishan brick kiln where they worked. A TI account of a lynching that

Babar Ali of Murshidabad began teaching children in his parents' backyard at nine — and at sixteen the BBC called him the world's youngest headmaster.

In 2014, Suchitra Sharma asked why parents perform their children's achievements on Facebook. The humblebrag is older now — and bigger. From the TI archives.

In 2014, Suchitra Sharma called out shoe-sale ads that portrayed women as deal-obsessed dimwits. A prescient media critique, from the TI archives.

Guest critic Lopamudra Banerjee Dhar on Vishal Bhardwaj's Haider — Hamlet in Kashmir, the Army portrayal, and why revenge can't buy freedom.