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The High-End Fashion Industry’s Reaction to Economic Turmoil

While inflation has pinched the wallets of many, its ironically fueling the growth of luxury fashion. As most consumers scale back on spending due to rising costs, iconic brands like Chanel, Rolex, and Hermès

Infocus / 17th April 2025
Articulating Your Voice: Constructing Your Argument

Dr Brainerd PrinceThe research is finally complete. We began with a significant problem in the world and identified a theme we wanted to pursue. Then we looked up the correlating thematic within a particul

Infocus / 2nd April 2025
Deconstructing the Neurology of Memory: The Bleak Reality of Neurodegenerative Diseases and A Brighter Future Ahead

Ishrat BombaywalaPlaksha University Imagine waking up one day and not recognizing the faces of your loved ones. Imagine forgetting their voices. Their names slip out of your grasp like grains of sand slipp

Infocus / 11th March 2025
The White Owl Literature Festival: Panel discussion examine complexities of morality

Morung Express NewsChümoukedima| February 19At the second edition of The White Owl Literature Festival and Book Fair, a thought-provoking panel discussion titled Trendspotting: The Virtue Trap—The Immoral Wa

Nagaland / 19th February 2025
Research Results and Findings: Answering Research Questions and Generating New Knowledge

Dr Brainerd PrinceIn the last column, we looked at how we could use research methods, both quantitative and qualitative, to collect and analyse different types of data. We made the distinction between data in t

Infocus / 27th January 2025
The Yellow Bucket: Methods, Sampling, and the Role of AI

By Brainerd PrinceIn our last article, we started the conversation about methods, and methods being the hands of research. To recap, the red bucket gives us a research question; the green bucket gives us the da

Around the Kitchen Fire / 10th December 2024
How to Tackle Waste Management for Sustainable Cities

Aadi Arora, Sadhika Anand, Rithwik AgarwalIn a world full of environmental hazards, where global warming and climate change is on the rise, sustainability is a key agenda. Through the years, sustainability has

Infocus / 3rd December 2024
The Yellow Bucket: From Frameworks to Methods

Dr Brainerd PrinceIn our previous article, we discussed the "yellow bucket" of methodology, discussing how methodology pertains to both the eyes and the hands of research. The eyes represent conceptual framewor

Around the Kitchen Fire / 6th November 2024
Is Meditation Healing Or Harming Us?

Sameera John, Rahul Aggarwal, Malini Sen, Prajyot Raut, & Vyshnav KPMeditation as a spiritual practice has been reported to have a wide range of physiological and psychological efficacy, including regulated

Morung Learning / 5th November 2024
Beyond Awareness: A Community - Based Approach to Tackling Typhoid

Niranjani, Aishwarya Menon, Arvind Kumar"Water is the soul of the Earth." – WH AudenIndia is a land of paradoxes. Jal hi jivan hai (Water is life) is a household saying in the subcontinent, while another

Infocus / 1st October 2024
The Yellow Bucket: Critical Role of Frameworks in Research Methodology

Brainerd PrinceThis article continues our conversation on research methodology. In the last column, I introduced the idea of eyes and hands as two parts of methodology for any research. We had a little introduc

Infocus / 1st October 2024
Revolutionising Healthcare: How DNA Sequencing is Shaping the Future

DNA is the building block of life. It consists of a recurring sequence of four chemical bases. The arrangement of these bases encodes vital information necessary for various biological processes. Each of the ba

Infocus / 11th September 2024
Revolutionising Healthcare: How DNA Sequencing is Shaping the Future

Jia Bhargava, Tanay SrinivasaDNA is the building block of life. It consists of a recurring sequence of four chemical bases. The arrangement of these bases encodes vital information necessary for various biologi

Infocus / 10th September 2024
The Yellow Bucket: Identifying a Research Methodology

Dr Brainerd PrinceWeve spent a lot of time looking at how a research project begins in the real world of the researcher and then transitions into the world of texts, within the boundaries of a discipline and di

Infocus / 2nd September 2024
How everyday pollutants may elevate breast cancer risk

Every two minutes a woman in the US is diagnosed with breast cancer, as of 2024 and, unfortunately, especially in developing countries like India , the cases of breast cancer are only going uphill. Although suc

Infocus / 7th August 2024
Green Bucket: A Personal Account of Research

Dr Brainerd PrinceIn the previous column, we spoke about the green bucket being the bucket of primary sources and solutions to the research question. The goal was to identify an appropriate object of research t

Infocus / 5th August 2024
The Green Bucket: The Object of Research

Dr Brainerd PrincePreviously, in this column, we discussed the idea of the three buckets, red, yellow, and green, as an analogy and visual metaphor for the process of research. We focused on the red bucket as f

Around the Kitchen Fire / 11th July 2024
The Promise of Artificial Photosynthesis: India's Sustainable Energy Vision

Niharika Gupta, Shruti Laddha, Yuvna Jain, Dhruv MenonAs the world grapples with the urgent need to transition to renewable energy sources, India stands at a crossroad, balancing its energy demands with the imp

Infocus / 4th July 2024
The Green Bucket: Responding to the Research Question

Dr Brainerd PrinceWe began this story about the philosophy and practice of research with three buckets, similar to the colours of the traffic lights: red, green and yellow. All we have said until now has had to

Around the Kitchen Fire / 12th June 2024
Explained: How Air and Water Pollutants are Linked to Blood Cancer in India

Maanal Gauri, Nainika Gupta, Nandana NAccording to an article by the Financial Express, every five minutes in India, a new person is diagnosed with some type of blood cancer. Among these, acute myeloid leukemia

Infocus / 5th June 2024