Happy new yair

Running on just 20W power, the human brain can invent machines, write poems, solve mysteries of soul and space, and, unlike Alphabet’s Waymo cars, navigate streets when the traffic lights are out. It is Socrates,...

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Avoidomycin: How not to toast your health this year

BMI : Never Mind | Body mass index was introduced 200 years ago by Belgian mathematician Lambert Quetelet. It makes no allowance for muscle mass and distribution of fat. Waist-hip ratio is a far better index....

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Befriend inner elephant: Make 2026 resolutions stick

By Anil Bhatnagar Every New Year, millions of people resolve to change their lives – walk more, scroll less, eat better, quit harmful habits. Most of these resolutions, however, gradually lose steam – not because...

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From compliance to joy: A new year’s reminder

By Sivakumar Sundaram There is a peculiar kind of tiredness that has nothing to do with physical work. It arrives when life suddenly promotes you into the role of ‘in-charge’. A parent, elder or mentor...

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2026 with my zebra’s imperfections

Crash! The white and black porcelain shards of my beloved zebra lay all over the floor.  I cursed myself for recklessly tossing my stole over it. My sheer ignorance and…… peekaboo! It was not one...

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Invertendo helps realise tenets of Eupraxsophy

By Vijay Vancheswar In the movie Guide , based on a novel by RK Narayan, iconic actor Dev Anand portrays a tour guide named Raju, who is a happy-go-lucky person until he undergoes a transformative...

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Damned If You Don’t

Cursing can make you feel more confident, less stressed. But be smart about when to use it  As family and friends crowd together in the festive season, high spirits tend to nudge gatherings towards high...

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People Targeting People

India saw three shocking killings in just one month. These were not accidents — they were acts of hate. This is worrying and dangerous, because it shows how treating some people as “outsiders” is slowly...

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Himalayas and now Aravalis: ‘Rakshasutra’ against mindless development

On the upper reaches of the Gangotri valley, in the vicinity of glaciers and mountain streams, along the banks of the Bhagirathi-Ganga, the slopes harbour dense forests of deodar intermingled with chestnut, blue pine, silver...

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Freeze the gyaan! The real reason Indian women aren’t having babies

Freeze your eggs! Do your duty to society!! Don’t bring children into this horrible world at all. Everybody and their social media uncle has an opinion on the fertility of women. Zoho’s Sridhar Vembu recently...

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Morning Bulletin

Getting schoolkids to read newspapers is a smart idea You can read this, thanks to a unique brain circuit your ancestors evolved about 6,000 years ago. But now that circuit is weakening species-wide because we...

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AI Love You?

No humans, no. It’s just a large language model throwing words at you, based on cold calculations  Predictions seldom come true, but the 2013 film Her has turned out to be a fair simulation of...

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Justice denied

Ten years ago, a mob dragged Mohd Akhlaq out of his Dadri home and lynched him. Justice moves tortuously slowly in India. So, that his killers still haven’t been convicted barely raises eyebrows. But even...

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Christmas is a feast for the vulnerable

By Janina Gomes Angels appeared to shepherds at night when Christ was born, announcing the good news, singing: “Glory to God in the highest and peace to all people of goodwill.” The incarnation of Jesus,...

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Atithi Devo Bhava?

Humiliating an African national for not knowing Hindi, exposes Indians to similar abuse abroad  During the Mughal era, the British era, and now the Indian era, Delhi has been blessedly spared ‘sons of the soil’...

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Eggs Aren’t the Enemy

India’s food safety body, called FSSAI, has said clearly: eating eggs does NOT cause cancer. Some tests found tiny, trace amounts of certain substances in eggs, but that does not mean they are harmful. Scientists...

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India’s big nuclear reset: Why opening the door—SHANTI—to SMRs makes sense

India’s energy transition has entered a decisive phase. With Union Science Minister Jitendra Singh announcing targets of 22 GW of nuclear power by 2032, 47 GW by 2037, 67 GW by 2042 and 100 GW...

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Messy visit

Kolkata ko gussa kyun aata hai Stop blaming the city of joy for what happened at the Messi event. Kolkata, as we all know, has had two religions: communism and football. While communism may have...

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The lost joy of simple living: Why happiness still hides in ordinary days

We live in an age where life moves faster than our ability to feel it. Every morning begins with a scroll, every evening ends with a checklist, and somewhere between the rush to earn, achieve,...

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The age of brain rot! Why we think less, scroll more

The moment ‘brain rot’ entered the Oxford dictionary, it went viral. People began using it for everything. Before this, many online users casually claimed they had ADD, a real clinical condition that they threw around...

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Turning ESG compliance into a bankable competitive edge for MSMEs

Across global markets, sustainability reporting is transitioning from a voluntary exercise to a core strategic requirement. For executive management teams, this shift is no longer driven by branding or CSR positioning; rather, capital market expectations,...

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Gold as India’s silver bullet

The world’s most famous ship, Titanic, could carry roughly 22,000 tonnes of passengers and cargo. Yet, it couldn’t have carried all the gold owned by Indian households. A recent Morgan Stanley report estimates our private...

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The Danger In Dhaka

The widespread vandalism and arson Bangladesh witnessed over the last 48 hours, adds to the sense of growing chaos in that country. Mobs targeted multiple sites, including two of Bangladesh’s largest newspapers, The Daily Star...

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Here Are 10 Things India Should Do To Kill Smog

The solutions are not rocket science. But they require real governance India’s smog is so real, you don’t need a Lok Sabha debate to establish its existence – it’s even visible from space. So, it...

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2025: When we finally started counting care work

Every December, we look back at what this year meant to us. And one of the quietest shifts has been in how we see “care work”… the cooking, cleaning, caregiving, the small everyday labour that...

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Dhikr of the tongue is a doorway to dhikr of the heart

Constant remembrance of God’s name delivers us from the stresses and strife of ordinary life. The transformation is profound. When one is anchored in God’s love, one develops a compassionate heart and views all events...

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It’ll Be Happy Ending…

…If I&B ministry lets film festival preview committees be sole arbiters of what can or cannot be screened On Oct 19, 1980, you could have walked into Delhi’s Vigyan Bhawan at 3pm, and watched a...

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Give Enough Time, EC

Commission should have empathy for those incorrectly excluded from voter rolls in Bengal & other states Almost 8% of Bengal’s voter roll of Jan 2025 has been excluded in the new draft rolls post-SIR. Lists...

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Air control

China has far more cars and factories than India, yet its air is cleaner. It shows India’s air problem can be fixed WHO says the level of PM2.5 – particles so tiny they can enter...

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Crème de la crème

Winter had suddenly made a friendly special appearance in the neighbourhood and my skin was feeling dry. I decided to explore Kamala’s dressing table to see what I could find to help my parched face,...

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Stealing the ball

Messi reception in Kolkata reminded the nation that VIP culture is very much alive, and kicking the masses In Sept, French president Macron was stuck on an NYC street closed for Trump’s passage. He did...

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How PM Modi’s visit could cement Jordan as the linchpin of India’s IMEC vision

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Jordan on December 15 as part of his three-nation tour to Jordan, Oman and Ethiopia is far more than a routine diplomatic engagement. His reciprocal visit to the Hashemite...

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Kerala assault case shows what can happen when a survivor speaks out

They say a good criminal plans ten steps ahead. Pulsar Suni, the main perpetrator in the prominent case where a Malayalam actress was abducted and sexually assaulted in a moving car in Kochi in 2017,...

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Secrets in stickers

Codes are like secret languages that only some people understand A tough gang in the NCR once used a very simple but clever code. They didn’t use computers or fancy spy tricks. They just used…...

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India’s nuclear crossroads: A decade of deterrence, technology and strategic alignments (2025–2035)

China’s pursuit of defence-technology dominance rests on an aggressive civil–military fusion model that integrates private-sector innovation directly into its military-industrial complex. By treating AI, robotics, quantum systems, and biotechnology as dual-use enablers of future warfare,...

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Voodoo & Hoodoo

It’s super that you and I don’t believe in superstition and all that rubbish  Like the man who said, “Thank God I’m an atheist!”, I claim to be a rationalist who would thank a palmist...

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The food-mood connection: How nutrition impacts mental health

The relationship between food and mood is complex and bidirectional. What we eat can significantly impact our mental health, and conversely, our mental state can influence our food choices. Understanding this connection can empower us...

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Create discomfort – a mindset!

This article attempts to touch upon the concept that creating some intentional discomfort in life can enhance quality of life, and help us to further push our limits and discover our hidden potential. There is...

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Don’t cage rage

It’s your password to social media power ‘Rage bait’ is the OED’s Word of the Year. If you were born after Y2K, you need no explanation, but for social media illiterates it’s spelt out as...

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Creative destruction is essential to attain balance

By G S Tripathi The 2025 Nobel Prize in Economic Science was announced recently. The prize theme describes two periods of economic progress: a stagnating period of the economy in the pre-industrial revolution period and...

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Who should pay what, and why apartment maintenance needs a fair formula

In city after city, homeowners’ associations and resident welfare associations (RWAs) in India are locked in what has become a recurring, bitter debate: should maintenance and common-service charges be based on flat size or on occupancy...

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The great Shakespearean marriage dilemma

By Ranjeni A Singh Actor-politician Jaya Bachchan was recently quoted as saying that she does not want her granddaughter to get married and called marriage an outdated institution. This prompted a section of netizens to...

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Big Breaking

Monopolies are when one company becomes so big that it controls almost everything in its market. That sounds bad — but deciding when a company is “too big” is actually very tricky. Think about this:...

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The AI job wipeout is not what you think: 5 unbreakable skills that will make you indispensable in 2026

The headlines today are terrifying. They scream: “AI will replace 300 million jobs.” “The robots are coming for the white-collar worker.”  If you feel a knot in your stomach every time you read about the...

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Content is king

That’s the message from Netflix-Warner deal. And they better throw audiences a party, instead of under the bus Batman, Superman and Harry Potter. Game of Thrones and Lord of the Rings. The Matrix and The...

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How do you know if your ACL surgery failed?

First, let’s look at what gets you there to begin with. “Doc, I pivoted, and my knee gave way.” Or “Doc, I hyperextended my knee and heard a pop.” Those, and a host of other...

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The ‘chill state’ of happiness

Monday is my maths exam. It was the alert statement from our son on Saturday evening. We took all the privilege and pain to take part in the preparation for Monday’s test. However, during the...

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The impact of culture on dating in India: When your heart meets your heritage

In many coaching sessions where relationships come up, I silently ask one question before my client finishes their story: Is this their choice, or their culture speaking through them? In India, dating is never just...

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PutiNamo

India’s Prime Minister Modi and Russia’s President Putin had an important meeting. It came at a time when the world’s politics are changing fast. First, the meeting showed that both countries want to make their...

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Asia’s emerging economies are quietly becoming the world’s new innovation labs

Walk through any marketplace, school corridor or district hospital in Asia today and you will notice something quietly shifting. Systems that once felt slow and overburdened are beginning to work smarter. Services are becoming more...

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IndiNoGo

IndiGo had two years to prepare for new pilot rostering rules. Why didn’t it do so, is the question Thursday was the third day of IndiGo flight disruptions that left lakhs of flyers stranded, often...

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Faith accompli

So, you still don’t believe in miracles? On Nov 15, I was devastated; a fortnight later, I was uplifted. Incredulously. The long-defunct fire temple of my Kolkata childhood had literally risen from the ashes. Last...

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Running with the Big Boys: The day I rode beyond my limits

It began, like many questionable life decisions, over a cup of mid-morning filter coffee. I was at our neighbourhood Udupi restaurant, contemplating the aroma of the coffee and life itself, when a gleaming motorcycle slid...

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Avocado a la carte

From being a poor man’s food, the fruit has gained celebrity status in the culinary world  It was a green gooey glob in the salad bowl. And it tasted like manna from heaven, with a subtle savour...

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Saving an Owl Family

In Telangana, something amazing happened: people came together to protect an owl family — and it shows that birds work just as hard as we do. Owls are usually quiet, secretive birds that come out...

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