By Anmol Saxena The concept of ‘God’ is deeply complex, spanning religion, philosophy, psychology, and language. Different traditions interpret it differently, making a single definition impossible. A grihast sant , Shyam Lal Saxena (Babuji Maharaj,...
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How To Go Electric…
Smaller EVs, battery-as-service model for cars. Govt campaign for e-cooking India uses a huge amount of petrol, diesel and cooking gas every month. Most of it is imported from other countries. But what if we...
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From sacred oaths to silent complicity
There comes a solemn moment in the life of every young professional when ambition pauses and conscience takes centre stage. A medical graduate rises to take the Hippocratic Oath, promising to heal with compassion and...
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Rebirth is grounded in reason & meditative insight
By The XIV Dalai Lama Among the Buddha’s profound teachings, few are as thought-provoking or as often misunderstood as the teaching of rebirth. For those raised in a materialist worldview, the idea that life continues...
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Being Chipper
India is finally entering the chip-making business in a big way Computer chips, also called semiconductors, are becoming one of the world’s most important products. In fact, experts say that by 2030, the world could...
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From scar to star: My life story
Like a diamond forged under immense pressure, my journey from suffering to success has been shaped by strength and transformation. In this respect, it is a story not just of survival, but of triumph against...
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My unGandhian experiments with truth and chatbots
8.15am The only thing free in life is bad advice. Especially in India, where from the moment we are born, someone is applying a kala teeka to our forehead on the recommendation of a chachi...
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Temple Food: The sacred flavours of India
Temple food holds a deeply significant place in Indian culture, extending far beyond nourishment. Across centuries, food offered in temples has symbolized devotion, gratitude, purity, and community. Whether it is the sacred prasad distributed after...
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World Hypertension Day 2026: The silent pressure India can no longer ignore
High blood pressure is often called the “silent killer.” It is silent because most people do not experience symptoms until serious complications arise. Yet, it is deadly because uncontrolled hypertension significantly increases the risk of...
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Neural networks of restraint and introspection
By Deepak Ranade The human brain, particularly the neocortex, is anthropologically the latest upgrade. The frontal lobes have blessed mankind with the faculty of abstraction. To perceive the intangible. It has also blessed us with...
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The AI illusion: Why the new tech boom is a mirage
Thirty years ago, while teaching a robotics lab course at the University of Illinois, my senior colleagues gave me a piece of advice that stayed with me: quit AI and robotics, because the breakthroughs were...
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US, Japan double down on defence ties. What does it mean for China?
There is a growing alignment between Tokyo and Washington in the defence sector. In January, Japanese defence minister Shinjiro Koizumi met Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth in Washington, and they agreed to expand joint defence production...
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NEET 2026 cancellation crisis: Temporary fixes will not suffice
The cancellation of NEET-UG 2026 has done far more harm than disturbing the Examination schedule. It has deeply shaken the confidence of millions of students and parents across India. Conducted on May 3, the examination...
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Clack, sizzle, repeat
Snob society is now ruled by tile and tawa . In air-kissed exclusion zones, the talk is no longer of shiatsu massages and ethically sourced coffee. Even matcha is no match for mahjong and benne...
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Life & death: Two milestones of a journey
By Aacharya Pragyasagar Human life is a remarkable journey, one that begins with arrival and continues through many transitions. We celebrate birth with joy, yet the mere mention of death fills us with fear, grief,...
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Crisis of trust opens opportunity to reform admission tests
Another NEET examination question paper leakage has come to the fore and shattered the young medical education aspirants once again. This leakage of NEET 2026 has been accepted after many days of the examination, and...
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The real problem with free electricity is the message it sends
Tamil Nadu’s announcement of 200 free units every two months for 1.46 crore households, at an additional cost of ₹1,730 crore annually, arrives at a strange moment in global energy politics. No, not because such...
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Crisis/Opportunity
Iran war will probably hurt growth, but proactive policies can absorb much of its impact India’s economy is probably not going to grow as fast in 2026 as people had hoped. At first, experts thought...
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Overcoming the fear of missing out
By Pulkit Sharma Living in a world where we get frequent, endless smartphone updates about what others are doing is becoming challenging. What we see online is often picture-perfect, grandiose, carefully selected and curated stories...
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Holistic good health could be within reach
By Narayani Ganesh At one time, say even two decades ago, ailments among those living in India were predominantly brought on by infections. Today, however, that number has been overtaken by lifestyle diseases. According to...
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The power turnaround of Uttar Pradesh: Infrastructure, reform and energy security
Less than a decade ago, prolonged blackouts were among the defining features of life in Uttar Pradesh. Frequent power cuts affected not only villages, but also major cities and industrial centres such as Lucknow, Kanpur,...
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Nietzsche and the reinvention of the human
By Jug Suraiya If you were told that in a cycle of endless recurrence you’d live out your life exactly as it is in every aspect and every event, every pain and every joy, over...
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At Sea, in trouble
India is uniquely placed to rescue Hormuz sailors . It must lead a multilateral mission for repatriation More than 20,000 sailors, most of them from India, are stuck at sea near the Strait of Hormuz...
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Mystic India to Akshardham: A journey that influenced my life
In 2006, one afternoon while driving past the Wadala Dome Theatre in Mumbai, my attention was drawn to a banner that read Mystic India. The vibrant images of Indian festivals instantly aroused my curiosity, and I...
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My Take 5 (Edition 68): The week that was in international affairs
Welcome back to another edition of My Take 5. This week we are discussing Russia’s scaled-down May 9 parade due to fears of Ukrainian drone strikes, Poland’s massive defence investment, US & Iran playing cat...
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As voters become trolls, old friendships are poll-arised
Ever since BJP ousted Trinamool Congress from office, social media has been up in arms. A friend who opposed BJP is so upset, she is pruning her friends list of those rejoicing at the verdict....
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On Mother’s Day, be grateful to your guru and god
By Sant Rajinder Singh The second Sunday in May each year marks Mother’s Day – a day to recognise, celebrate, thank, and honour our mothers and all mother-like figures in our lives. There is a...
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Student data privacy in universities: An overdue reckoning
Many European universities still expose student data because they rely on outdated administrative methods, leading to repeated GDPR violations and sanctions. Even though legal rules have existed since 2018, some institutions continue to publish exam...
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BJP’s Bengal Job
Bengal’s long and grim tradition of post-poll violence is on display again. The murder of BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari’s personal assistant, shot dead by bike-borne assailants in Madhyamgram, is the darkest shadow so far. Across...
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Dadi’s gift
She left all of us a priceless legacy – together with an equally great responsibility She was Dadi to all those fortunate enough to know her. Bunny and I were lucky in that we got...
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Shaping the future of textile and apparel industry of India – Role played specifically by the Make in India initiative
The textile and apparel industry is one of the largest contributors to India’s economy providing employment to millions and generating substantial foreign exchange earnings. With strong policy support, infrastructure development, and a skilled workforce, India...
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Leaders should pause before reacting
Ganesh Kolambakar In every organisation, authority is defined by designation and detailed in manuals. Roles are specified, powers are outlined, and procedures are codified. Such a structure is necessary, for it ensures order, accountability, and...
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Vijay’s Vijay
Vijay winning in Tamil Nadu is a big surprise—and a big lesson. For a long time, many experts believed that just being famous (like a movie star) doesn’t easily turn into votes. But they missed...
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Eyes in the sky, boots on the ground: The infantry’s quiet reinvention
There is a tendency to see modern warfare through the lens of machines, drones, satellites, and precision weapons. But beneath all that, the fundamentals of our Indian armed forces remain unchanged. Wars are still decided...
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Big Bong theory
Bengal, a habitual contrarian, has finally succumbed to the attractions of being one of the crowd of BJP-governed states in north India. Apart from Punjab, Himachal and Jharkhand, political geography has changed. Saffron’s sweep now...
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Solitude as a teacher and discipline of silence
By Venerable Gyaltsen Samten There was a time when life began to draw me away from worldly concerns, and i recognised this shift clearly. It was this inner orientation that led me to choose a...
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When the machine asks ‘who am I’
By Partha Sinha We have long been comfortable with tools. The hammer did not disturb us. The wheel did not provoke metaphysics. Even the computer, in its early obedient years, felt like a faster clerk....
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Exit polls: We need more trust, less tamasha
Exit polls in India are often treated as an election-night tamasha. This is not the case in many developed democracies, where the science and art of studying elections is becoming more refined and rigorous with...
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The power of association
Human life is quietly shaped by association. In its simplest sense, association is connection. It includes what we see, what we hear, what we engage with, and what we allow to reside within our consciousness....
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When did ordinary life become a disease?
Neurologist and seizure expert, Suzanne O’Sullivan , often sees patients who already have three, four, five preexisting diagnoses, which don’t yet have a cure. In a medical world racing pell-mell towards fancy new tests, she finds it...
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Commendable performance of India’s marine exports amid uncertain times
Marine products are one of the most important items of export from India. The sector not only provides opportunities to earn foreign exchange, but also generates income opportunities for a large section of the population....
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Buddha Purnima: Towards experiential wisdom
Vikas Bishnoi & Vipul Anekant On Buddha Purnima, when the full moon illuminates the night sky, we commemorate the birth, enlightenment, and parinirvan of Siddharth Gautam, and the radical liberation of human inquiry from the...
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The journey from attachment to inner bliss
Shri Shri Anandamurti In the constant flux of our lives, desire and detachment stand as two opposing yet deeply interconnected forces. Desire pulls the mind outward towards objects, achievements, and sensory pleasures, while detachment gently...
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Changing gears: Move at what suits you best
By Rajashree Birla Recently, one has been reading a lot about student shootings. A student running amok, gunning down innocent lives mindlessly and then ebbing out his own. Largely overseas. In India, at many institutes...
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Body language and mental health: A psychologist’s perspective
Human communication extends far beyond spoken words. As psychologists, we often observe that what remains unspoken—our gestures, posture, facial expressions, and tone—can reveal more about our inner world than verbal communication ever could. Body language...
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Is the Bengali bhadralok ready to swap his jhalmuri for dhokla?
An election like never before in Bengal. Never did the state see electoral roll revision to the extent it saw this time in the runup to the polls. Never did the country see polling in...
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We are not the last step in terrestrial evolution
By Meena Om Renunciation is required to be centred in the inner, true being, detached from all expectations, desires and aspirations, which can culminate in a feeling of separation. To experience oneness, consciousness needs to...
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Change your destiny by changing your karma
Great gurus don’t say, “Believe only what I say, follow only me!” The most evolved spiritual teacher in the world is one that says—“Don’t believe what I say, God has given you intelligence, you experiment, experience &...
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Sindoor marked big shift, but US ties cast shadow
A year after Operation Sindoor, the contours of India’s response in May 2025 appear less as a moment of rupture and more as a confident consolidation of an evolving strategic outlook. Triggered by the Pahalgam...
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From Russian twists to political poses
8am: After 20-odd years of yoga, I’ve started lifting weights. This whole personal trainer business baffles me. I invite someone home, offer him tea, and then pay him to torture me.‘Come on, give me 60...
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Post Maoist future: Chhattisgarh now needs a Sevagram and Shanti Van
Two years ago, when we set out on a three-month peace journey, people in many villages of Bastar had organised meetings in their village’s gauthans (common cattle yards). The gauthan was the flagship scheme of...
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Bengal’s big vote: Voters’ SIR anxiety raises questions on the exercise
Voters’ SIR anxiety raises questions on the exercise A turnout of almost 93%, in first phase of Bengal polls, sounds like a win for democracy. It’s a record for any poll, ever, in India. Sceptics...
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Farfetched dreams through mismatched crossroads
As the annual board results season knocks on our doors, it brings with it a familiar frenzy—a high-stakes atmosphere where dinner table conversations turn into data comparisons and percentage becomes the buzzword of the entire...
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Life is worth living only when shared
By P Raja What is man, or for that matter, woman? The human body undergoes change every minute, every second, without our knowledge. We know that the body is present on Earth for a short...
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Unselfing from the ‘relentless ego’
By Jug Suraiya In the glow of a new-born day, poetpriest Gerard Manley Hopkins saw a bird soaring high above the Earth, a vision that inspired him to write one of the most joyous poems...
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Who owns your value—Are you in the market or being represented within it? Understanding your power and positioning in the workplace
*Two decades of reporting, regulatory reviews, and worker advocacy reveal how employer-tied work visas and layered staffing arrangements have left many skilled migrants legally authorized to work abroad, yet economically insecure—raising shared questions of accountability...
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Steadying the applecart
Come Sept, Apple will have a new CEO. John Ternus is a company veteran, and as a hardware man all along, he’s been associated with most Apple products, from Macs to the very chips that...
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Species and elements living together happily
By Narayani Ganesh The similarities between South and East Asian cultures and the Earth’s natural networks, are uncanny. Among Asian people, you cannot have a standalone relationship with any one individual. And when it comes...
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Basavanna’s kayaka signifies honest manual labour
By KV Raghupathi Basaveshwara’s primary concern was not literary composition, but attainment of the highest goal of life and facilitation of the greatest good for the common man through kayaka, a concept that signifies honest...
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Strait Talk
World can’t be held to ransom for Iran’s uranium. Opening Hormuz should be Trump’s priority Last year, world economy grew 3.4%, a modest increase despite Trump’s tariffs. In Jan, IMF predicted 2026 would also be...
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Ecstasy in the love of god
“When an irrational animal like camel dances at the tune of bell, why don’t you, being the best of creation, attain absorption and ecstasy in the love of God, or go into rapture by listening...
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India’s manufacturing story can’t be built on cheap labour alone
For the past few days, Noida, UP, has been rocked by industrial workers’ protests large enough to disrupt industrial functioning and civic life. The UP govt has already agreed to one of the main demands...
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Self-praise is no recommendation, may be marketing
Sometimes, an innocent self-recommendation becomes a recommendation or marketing. I had passed Matriculation in 1966 from a remote village government school in Charkhi Dadri district of Haryana. At that time, there was an acute shortage...
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400 shades of chillies
The potato crowns Bengal’s biryani, squished some, it’s ubiquitous in political rallies, in greasy foil packets. Meanwhile, biryani makers are finding workarounds for fuel shortages. Netas, of course, spar on fish, like fishbones stuck painfully,...
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India’s best-kept culinary secret: Regional spice mixes
India’s culinary identity is inseparable from its vibrant spice blends—each one a story of region, climate, and tradition. From the nutty, fiery Podi Masala of the South to the tangy punch of Chaat Masala in...
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400 shades of chillies
India’s food is way too big and different to fit into just one box called “Indian cuisine.” Think about this: in some places in Bengal, people even put potatoes in biryani! You might see it...
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Why our children are feeling so low
By Pulkit Sharma Many of us have mixed memories of our childhood: a good portion of joyful moments, a certain number of painful memories, a few lifechanging experiences, and many routine recollections. These memories exist...
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Maachh-ing ahead
An election troubled in fishy waters Fish is the latest bait in the West Bengal elections. Mamata-di spiced up the electoral roll-jhol , by warning that Bhindi Jowar Party would ban fish, along with all...
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A formula that could work?
The government is said to have an idea: increase the number of Lok Sabha seats in every state by 50%, and then reserve one-third of the total seats for women. If this is the plan,...
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Seva, Sangat, Langar: Bonds no algorithm can simulate
By Jasjit Singh We are living through a remarkable moment in human history. Machines can now generate text, images, and ideas. They can anticipate our needs, finish our sentences, and quietly shape our choices. Artificial...
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Kaikeyi, Manthara and the grace hidden in blame
By Shambo Samrat Samajdar and Shashank Joshi Some names in our epics are spoken with reverence. Others are spoken with discomfort. Kaikeyi and Manthara belong to the second category. For generations, they have stood in...
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Hungary kya?
Orbán gets a proper shellacking – a reminder that the lovely thing about democracy is its penchant for change Greeting a massive crowd, cheering alongside River Danube, Péter Magyar said, “We did it.” He is...
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Decimation of Naxalite forces due to the Modi Government’s Firm Policies
Union Home Minister Amit Shah recently announced during a special parliamentary debate that the problem of Naxalism, a highly dangerous form of internal terrorism confronting the nation, has been brought to an end. Naxalites posed...
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India just lit a nuclear fire that could burn for a hundred years
On 6 April 2026, inside a contained steel vessel on the southern coast of Tamil Nadu, something quietly extraordinary happened. A controlled nuclear chain reaction was initiated inside India’s Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor at Kalpakkam,...
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Forty-six, or how a perfectly good day masqueraded as a disaster
Forty-six does not arrive with ceremony. It slips in quietly, like a meeting that could have been an email. But let me be honest: on the day itself, there was nothing quiet about it. This...
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No time to think anymore? That’s the real problem
Time has quietly become a luxury. And we don’t even question it anymore. We just accept it, negotiate with it, stretch it, complain about it. Kumari didi, my helping hand, often says, “Didi, do minute...
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Why China chose to stay on the sidelines of the war in West Asia
Merely because the People’s Republic of China has been peripheral to the conflict in the Gulf should not be taken to mean that it does not have the capacity to get involved. Just as the...
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Netas need compassion: Why we must oblige
By Sonal Srivastava While on a state visit to India in February, France’s President Emmanuel Macron, the youngest president in the country’s history, was seen jogging in navy-blue shorts and a T-shirt on a dusty...
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My Take 5 (Edition 65): The week that was in international affairs
After a short break, welcome back to another edition of My Take 5, your weekly round-up of top international news. This week, we are covering the scheduled Iran-US ceasefire talks in Pakistan, the Orthodox Easter...
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As long as Hezbollah belongs to Iran, our future isn’t ours
The Iranian-Israeli-American truce doesn’t apply to Lebanon. First Israel, then US, have both made this clear. Massive Israeli attacks on Lebanese soil are very much continuing. Wednesday, for example, saw multiple strikes, resulting in over...
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Cats and dogs: Stories of faith, hope, and peace
Kulbir Kaur In Mahabharat, Yudhishthir refused to enter heaven without his dog. When Indra tried to convince Yudhishthir to ascend alone, he replied that abandoning a loyal companion, a stray dog, whose only concern is...
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In the solemn silence of the cosmos, a chatbot descends with a template
I order food from that app. The food is good—there are even a few healthy options. But communication is strictly one-way: the chatbot serves up standard answers, no matter what you ask. It’s like asking...
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The unspoken gift: The first encounter
For the first time, I saw her silhouette against the dark evening before I walked away.… 2013: A busy November evening The November nights were getting colder and so was I. The relentless pressure of...
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Turkey weathers the Middle East war and comes out a winner
Turkey is navigating a complex landscape of security challenges and geopolitical transformation, as recent developments highlight both internal counterterrorism efforts and Ankara’s growing regional and international role. Foiled Attack on Israeli Consulate in Istanbul The...
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Keralam is vexed with both LDF and UDF politics of misgovernance. It is ready to consider BJP’s politics of development for Vikasita Keralam
As is mandated by Constitution, Keralam, erstwhile Kerala, is in quinquennial election mode and its electorate has enthusiastically participated in election campaign as a precursor to voting day on 9 April, 2026. The state is...
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A neutral gaze redefines spiritual experience
By Narayani Ganesh Kashmiri mystic Lalleshwari, also known as Lal Ded, wandered naked, expressing her devotion to the divine in poetic outpourings. Her presence and aura were so overpowering that no one dared stop her....
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‘How I did it’
When Apoorva Agarwal decided to study abroad, she aspired to build her already successful career in the auditing and taxation space. Having held positions with KMPG and Deloitte, her pursuit of an MBA was a...
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Donald’s dilemma
Trump, stomping around in Oval Office, pouting petulantly, and randomly kicking furniture. Trump: Ingrates! Ingrates! Ingrates! Rat fink ingrates, the whole lotta ’em! Chief of Staff: Who’re these ungrateful fellas, who’ve got you so hot under the...
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The body has to be enjoyed as much as soul
Osho You are one of the greatest marketing persons of a product that gratifies the soul. We are in the business of selling a product that gratifies the mind; Others sell products that gratify the...
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A pause you can step into
All rooms are equal, but the balcony is not a room. It’s a handshake to the outdoors or, for those so inclined, a step inward, towards quiet contemplation. That’s why balconies of all persuasions (whether...
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No man left behind
All lives matter. So it’s good news that the US F-15 crew shot down over Iran last week has been rescued. Some people are talking about how much the rescue cost — maybe around $300...
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Pain not transformed is pain transmitted
By Christopher Mendonca The problem of pain and suffering has baffled humankind from the very beginning. In searching for an answer, we have often confused the problem of pain with the problem of suffering. The...
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Guru Padmasambhava: The lotus-born ‘2nd Buddha’
When Gautama Buddha left his physical body, it is said that he foretold that after 8 years, the ‘second Buddha’ would appear. In the 8th century, in the mystical land of Uddiyana, a fully enlightened child...
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Group tours, a personal perspective
The idea of a group tour often brings to mind a swarm of matching hats following a flag-waving guide. But if you look closer at that crowd, you’ll see a fascinating mix of personalities forced...
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Kerala: Winner will be familiar but game may change
The key question in the 2026 Kerala assembly election is whether the state will return to its predictable cycle of power alternation, or whether voters will make history by electing the incumbent for a third...
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When ‘I am exhausted’ means more than tiredness
By Sivakumar Sundaram Now that summer is here, when someone asks, ‘How are you?’, the answer comes almost by reflex: ‘Exhausted.’ We say it so casually that it has nearly become the season’s standard greeting....
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Pension: Most benevolent human dignity measure
All retired defence personnel await expectantly for their pension on the last day of the month . As the month is about to close a message from the CDA ( controller of defence accounts) is...
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Good Friday: Solidarity with suffering
Janina Gomes Just why does the Cross of Christ evoke so many emotions and find an echo in so many hearts? It is because it speaks to us about one of our deepest experiences of...
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Crimes against women & children: Words that describe them need to change
William Shakespeare’s famous line from Romeo and Juliet, “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose would smell as sweet,” has often been cited by people brushing off the importance of words. Many...
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The battered half
India’s richest civic body, BMC, has a woman boss. That is swag achievement, by far. Mumbai now has three women in the financial capital’s administrative leadership – municipal commissioner, mayor and BMC’s leader of opposition...
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Paperless loo
To help save the planet, more people are switching from wipe to wash TP or not TP; that is the question. Had Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, been around today, that’s the way he might have...
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The discipline of ignoring
In March, I arrived in St. Louis for a bridge tournament with my usual Danish and part‑Swedish team, but my head was elsewhere. My memoir had been published five months earlier, and the PR demands...
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Count Us In
Imagine trying to understand how people live, but choosing to ignore some of them. That’s what might happen in India’s Census 2027. It plans to count couples living together without marriage as if they are...
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India’s gas crunch and air pollution demand an electric heat strategy
India’s latest gas shortages, triggered by the current Middle East conflict, highlight how vulnerable its industrial energy system remains. From textiles and food processing to chemicals and metals, manufacturing relies heavily on fossil fuels to generate...
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Big bad bullies
On a malign force that has the world worrying Early warning signals are flashing. A big bad bully is rolling up its sleeves, and is all set to go into action, making people in many...
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Is our relationship with food karmic?
By Brother Dao Hanh Karm is not fate etched in stone. It is far more intimate and more immediate. It is the sum of our actions: of body, speech, and mind. Every habit we cultivate,...
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#68: The new rules of heart health — Part 1 – What has changed
For years, most of us have been taught to think about heart health in silos. Cholesterol here, blood pressure there, and maybe a statin if things crossed some magic number. But the body doesn’t work...
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Iran war shows why India’s defence budget needs a 21st-century upgrade
Think of the Indian Army — what comes to mind? Large battalions of soldiers walking in unison, guns slung over their shoulders? Tanks and cannons? Long convoys of defence vehicles? You are not wrong. This...
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With all eyes on Hormuz, India’s old links offer a new lens
As the latest Gulf war heads into its fifth week, President Trump’s 15-point proposal for a negotiated settlement has run smack into Iran’s 5-point response. While Iran’s nuclear and missile programmes and its proclivity to...
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What a month!
As a viral meme says, March isn’t over yet, but what a month it’s been. We’re living through the biggest oil shock ever, and stock market carnage. Why? Because US and Israel took out Ayatollah...
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The molecule India has been waiting for
Somewhere in a Pune laboratory, two methanol molecules are being stripped of a water molecule and fused into something quietly significant. The product is dimethyl ether, DME. The process is indigenous. The patent is Indian....
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Hospice care: Knowing when and how to seek comfort at the end of life
Serious illness often brings a quiet but profound turning point—one that unfolds gradually rather than all at once. Patients and families begin to sense that continuing aggressive treatment may no longer provide meaningful benefit. Instead, it...
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India can be Denmark. Pakistan can be Norway. Iran can be Sweden. So what’s stopping them?
Denmark’s recent general election offers a nuanced and instructive outcome that extends far beyond a mere electoral setback for Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen. Although the Social Democrats emerged as the largest party, the broader left-leaning...
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Deal, Baby, Deal
Most people alive today were born after 1990. By then, Iran and Israel were already enemies. But their fight didn’t affect the whole world—until now. A few weeks ago, the US and Israel attacked Iran’s...
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Kamalamma, Tamannah Bhatia and Veerappan
Myself Kamalamma from Kunjibettu in Udupi. What to tell you! Few days back early morning, I am opening our front door and looking outside and who is looking back at me? Tamanaah Bhatia, that Bollywood,...
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Why time blocking fails leaders (and what actually works)
You plan your day perfectly at 9 am. By 11:30, it’s already irrelevant. A call runs over. An urgent issue pops up. A “quick” task takes two hours. And just like that, your carefully time-blocked...
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Cockroach, my friend
We must rethink our fear of the roach If humans’ deep dislike had the power to wipe it out, the cockroach would be doomed. But it’s thriving. It’s gone to space. It’s even had babies...
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The Khaosan cool
An excursion in the time of war By afternoon, the street ceases to exist. Merrymakers swallow it, with as much relish as their beers. A parade of performers – singing Adele to Dylan – traverse...
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Collateral Damage
In wars, it’s usually ordinary people who suffer the most, even though there are rules meant to protect them. If the whole history of Earth was just one day, humans would have been around for...
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Rethinking capacity building and sarpanch-pati syndrome in panchayats
Recently, on March 8th, 2026, the Government of India initiated the Say No to Proxy Sarpanch Campaign. It immediately picked up the pace on digital platforms using symbolic hashtags like #NoProxySarpanch and posting short videos,...
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Nora Fatehi song: Content creators can’t hide behind the fig leaf of free speech
It’s quite simple, really. When lyricists and singers celebrate alcohol and drugs in their songs, young, intoxicated people at parties are encouraged to consume more alcohol and normalise drugs. And let me tell you that...
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Modi as a Peacemaker? 🤝
Imagine there’s a big fight between powerful countries, and someone needs to step in and help them calm down and talk things out. Some people think India’s Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, could be that person....
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We Got It Worked Out 😀
Many of us prefer reading about exercise, rather than doing it. We also cherrypick bits that suit us If only reading about exercise counted as exercise, we could all be as fit as Ronaldo. And...
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Why does my child have my surname? A single mother’s voice
In February 2026, the Bombay High Court ruled that a child raised exclusively by a single mother cannot be forced to carry the father’s surname and caste in official records, emphasising that official documentation should reflect...
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Scary Middle Game
Iran war enters a troubling stage, where most likely outcomes look more destabilising than US planned for If war is a game of chess, Iran conflict has moved beyond its opening gambits into a tense,...
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War and peas
Much to its indignant distaste, India is willy-nilly getting a taste, literally, of the conflict raging in Iran and neighbouring countries. Iran’s blocking of Strait of Hormuz, which overnight has become an international buzzword, and...
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Hubris, Then Nemesis
Being blind to the limits of power, seems to come with the territory of having a lot of it. Look at geopolitics As it went with tariffs, so it’s going with Iran war: Trump’s ‘my...
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Out of the Mouth of Babes
Sometimes the wisest ideas come from children. Two cheerful boys from a village in Tamil Nadu have shown that adults can learn from kids too. Pre-teen brothers Deva and Jiva make very short videos —...
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Can a system of equal justice ever be attained?
Human society today is highly evolved. From the age of hunter-gatherers, when people lived and worked in small groups for immediate survival, human beings have gone on to build elaborate institutions, legal systems, states, economies,...
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A decade of disability inclusion: From policy promise to lived reality
Ten years after the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (RPwD) Act, 2016, India faces a simple question: have the promises of the law translated into the lived reality of the country’s 140–210 million persons with...
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Indian Poll League
EC’s made the voting schedule tight this time, can parties be tight-fisted with freebies? Dates are out for 2026’s Indian Poll League. Four large states and a UT will vote between April 9-29, and results...
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From the serene lakes of Panshet to the dreamlike silence of Fairyland, Lavasa
Sometimes the most memorable journeys are the ones that are not planned at all. During the vibrant festival of Holi, when colours fill the air and joy fills the heart, we suddenly felt the need for a...
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Could a Robot Ski Race?
Ski racing, particularly in the speed events of downhill and super G, is incredibly dangerous. Is it exciting because we hold our breaths as humans take extraordinary risks, or is it mainly about velocity? If...
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Kindness still lives in small corners of the world: From Amsterdam to Delhi
The world can feel a little too rushed these days. Turn on the news and it is often arguments, conflict, suspicion. It sometimes makes you wonder whether people still pause for one another. And then...
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Restarting without fear
“आरभ्यते न खलु विघ्नभयेन नीचैः, आरभ्य विघ्नविहता विरमन्ति मध्याः। विघ्नैः पुनः पुनरपि प्रतिहन्यमानाः, प्रारभ्य उत्तमजनाः न परित्यजन्ति॥” (The inferior never begins for fear of obstacles. The mediocre begin but stop when difficulties arise. The superior...
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What Landau’s candour reveals about the limits and potential of India-US ties
At the recent Raisina Dialogue in Delhi, where global powers outlined their strategic priorities, US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau articulated Washington’s current foreign policy thinking. His remarks were striking not because they challenged...
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A plate full of Eid joy and childhood nostalgia
Eid is a festival that beautifully brings people together through joy, gratitude, and delicious food. Homes are filled with the aroma of traditional dishes, and families gather around tables to share meals after a month...
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The glass ceiling is not outside – it is within
By Jaya Row Can you imagine the world without Google? Then how can you live life without a guide? Gita gives the roadmap that takes you from mediocrity to excellence. A talented sportsperson first visualises...
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Burning man
How fire helped create humans — and even ChatGPT Some people are worried about gas shortages. But the worry isn’t really about gas. Deep down, it’s about something bigger — what it means to be...
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Signals of power: Why India must urgently build a national spectrum warfare task force ‘now’ (Lessons from the ongoing US/Israel-Iran war)
The article is in two parts, giving out the silent help both Russia and China are giving to Iran to sustain this war. India needs to watch the battlefield to adapt to the new challenges...
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Bye Churchill, Hi Badger
Not just currency notes, public spaces at large need more homage to wildlife, less to man It’s bad times for Churchill. Even as people everywhere are grumbling about the Iran war, they are remembering he...
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Bangladesh revolution and election
In the elections that were finally held in Bangladesh (“BD”), the Bangladesh National Party (“BNP”) won a two-thirds majority. BD voters undoubtedly rejected the Jamaat Party, paving the way for Mr Tarique Rahman to become...
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On All Cylinders
Stopping LPG black market requires commercial supply restoration, market pricing, distributor audits Officially, there’s no shortage of LPG. Anecdotally, cylinders are selling for twice the official price. That means we have a black market in...
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Escapism Done Right
Feed your brain fine things, the result will be resilience. Feed it junk, you’ll grow sillier by the minute Dalgona coffee. Sourdough bread. Craftcore. Retro bingeing Malgudi Days and Mad Men. Rereading Ghalib and Premchand,...
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God-idea represents unity in diversity (uni-verse), from self-centeredness thru’ goodness towards self-lessness
It is interesting to see parallels between Greek philosophers, our Rishis and Founders of Religions who directly experience, perceive, That Infinite Consciousness, the Singular Subject, the idea of One Omnipresent, infinite God and then try...
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The Illusionists
Notes on the VIP varnish of a neighbourhood The first suspicion was aroused when there was a convergence of painters and cleaners, with plenty of govt cars on their heels. Soon, it was confirmed that...
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Primetime Loves Bombs
These are fab seasoning for tall stories and fake news Uncles in the park were more excited than the anchors on primetime TV, impossible as it seems. Because their humdrum, banal, retired lives had been...
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#67: Cooking oils, cardiovascular health, and what actually belongs in your kitchen
Cooking oils have become one of the most polarizing topics in nutrition. Depending on who you follow online, seed oils are toxic, coconut oil is ancestral medicine, ghee is sacred, and olive oil is liquid...
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‘Hallucinating’ AI is now fighting real wars
In Washington, a feud has erupted between the US Department of War and the AI company Anthropic, maker of the Claude model. The kerfuffle sounds like a classic corporate-state standoff, with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei...
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Cricket, like life, rewards courage and patience
Reuben Ray Sometimes the deepest lessons of life are revealed not only in scriptures or spiritual discourses but in the simple drama unfolding on a playing field. A moment on a cricket ground can mirror...
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Bare to dare
From Delhi’s AI Summit to Maoris, protesters have put skin in the game In a demonstration that raised both eyebrows and hackles, some members of Youth Congress gate-crashed the recent AI Summit in Delhi, and...
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From profit to legitimacy: The new corporate survival metric
For most of modern capitalism, corporations answered one central question: Can you generate profit? But the defining corporate question of the 2020s has quietly changed: Do you deserve to exist? Across global markets in 2026,...
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Golden Dome: Tut’s Gold Adventure
A long time ago, Egyptians buried their boy king, Tutankhamun, with a huge treasure of gold. That was 3,349 years ago! If Tut walked out of his tomb today, all that gold would make him...
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India’s electric vehicle gamble: Betting on production, losing on innovation
India’s Production Linked Incentive (PLI) programme has emerged as a major driver of manufacturing expansion, investment inflows and export growth, with tangible gains recorded across priority sectors. According to official data reviewed up to end...
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Jaw-jaw and war-war
US and Israel jointly attack Iran, but one of them is confused Donald Trump in a phone conversation with Benjamin ‘Bibi’ Netanyahu. Trump: Hi Nate, how’re they hangin’ now that we’ve slammed Iraq and whacked...
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Yoga Is No Longer a Wellness Perk. It Is Productivity Infrastructure for a Viksit Bharat
India gave the world yoga. And yet, in many workplaces today, yoga has been reduced to a calendar activity — a session squeezed between meetings, a short-term wellness initiative, or something introduced only when burnout...
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Worst Kind Of War
Sometimes, war happens because a country needs to protect its people from being attacked. This idea is called a “just war.” Even then, wars cause a lot of pain, loss, and damage. But there is...
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Beyond the packaging
Last week, when my 12-year-old daughter visited an ophthalmologist for vision correction, the doctor prescribed not only a higher eye power but also a “vision health” supplement in the form of gummies. Trusting the doctor’s...
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Vietnam’s participation in the Gaza Peace Conference: An assessment
Though the current situation in West Asia has pushed the Gaza Peace Plan into the back burner, this remains critical to achieve stability and peace in the region. PM Modi, while speaking at a joint...
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Questions For Don, Bibi
https://ift.tt/LU7PdTA US & Israel’s attack may not free Iranians and, worst case, produce a West Asian crisis In attacking Iran, Trump and Netanyahu may have crossed a line from confrontation into open defiance of what...
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Managing the Indian family WhatsApp group is a full time job
Some people manage companies, others manage households, but a select few of us manage the family chat. Frankly, the role deserves a salary, annual leave. And also, most importantly, a formal performance appraisal. The day...
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US-Israel strikes tip Middle East into a new crisis
The US and Israel finally decided to cross a Rubicon that had been looming over the Middle Eastern strategic landscape for some time. Their coordinated strikes on Iranian targets were not merely tactical operations; they...
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Lutyens: Don’t judge an architect by his politics but his buildings
One of the serious cultural shortcomings with us argumentative Indians is that we are often quick to dismiss an issue without considering its full scope. The current debate on Indianising Indian history lies at the...
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Did Iran really have a Golden Past?
Regardless of how some people of the Iranian diaspora in the West envision a lost golden period for Iran, the country has always been porous, just like every other nation on the earth. When you...
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Holi – A festival that celebrates good food
Holi, the radiant festival of colors, is as much a celebration of flavor as it is of joy. Welcoming the arrival of spring and symbolizing renewal, Holi transforms homes across India into kitchens fragrant with...
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Elementary, Investigators
Good investigations are built on proof — not guesses. Recently, a special judge named Jitender Singh strongly criticised the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) over its case about Delhi’s excise policy. The judge said the...
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From wells to wastelands: Water bankruptcy and the logic of extraction
The world is not facing a temporary water shortage. It is entering water bankruptcy. Nearly half of humanity now experiences severe water scarcity for at least part of each year. Reservoirs shrink. Crops fail. Aquifers...
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Knock, Knock…Who’s Fluent?
Teenagers are naturally attracted to foreign cultures, and thus languages. Encourage this Policy is all very well, but what about pleasure? It gets little mention in politically charged shouting matches about the Centre’s three-language policy,...
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Where we goofed up in spirituality
Last evening, I overheard a couple of seemingly learned men immersed in an avid discussion as I took my daily stroll by the poolside. Their topic, quite to my mind’s delight, was the soul. But...
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OBEYdience Is Overrated
Do elders give good advice? Sometimes. Young’uns need to filter it through their own context When Sam Altman told an auditorium full of IITians that “listening to old people is the biggest mistake young people...
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Tree People
Depending on where we live, we are either coniferous or deciduous, except in reverse As winter yields to warm spring, which will become the furnace of summer, I look at the trees that front my...
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Don’t run with the first task you come across
One of the most subtle productivity errors does not look like an error at all. It looks like initiative. It feels like momentum. It even feels disciplined. It is this: starting the day with the first...
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Punchatantra
I gently wiped a tear as I looked at my phone with grief and concern. Kamala paused mid-stride, worried that I had got some bad news about an ailing relative or that Trump had raised...
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Dark Age Returns
Taliban’s new penal code re-imposes total gender apartheid on Afghan women To the international community’s utter indifference, Taliban have created a horror chamber for Afghan women. In the latest – after barring women from school...
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Lingaraj & Mukteshwar Temple – Where stone speaks of liberation
I visited Bhubaneswar for the first time, though I had visited Puri and Konark 30 years back. When I arrived at Bhubaneswar railway station, I attempted to book an auto. None of the drivers were...
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#66: Never smoked? Why lung cancer still deserves your attention
Lung cancer has always been thought of as a smoker’s disease. That is still largely true, but the story is changing in an important way. A growing share of lung cancer is now being diagnosed...
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India’s sovereign AI vision and its strategic relevance for the Global South
The emergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) as the defining technology of the 21st century has reshaped global power equations. Control over data, computing, and algorithms is rapidly becoming as consequential as control over energy or...
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Viral robodog video shows why Indian universities need less spin, more substance
The recent episode involving a private university at the AI Impact Summit has been painful to watch. First, a word for the students and faculty. There are good students and committed teachers in every institution....
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Junk This Idea
Guj bid to change marriage registration rules violates adults’ rights Gujarat govt’s dubious, to say the least, proposal to amend marriage registration rules says a married couple must provide a declaration that “parents were informed”...
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Epstein Pals & ‘Epsteining’
Andrew’s arrest says something good about UK. But no one, anywhere, is investigating the real story Royals are a big deal for the Brit establishment. Therefore UK cops arresting Andrew – an ex-prince is still...
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Summits & realities
There’ll be no global cooperation in AI. But Indian entrepreneurs can pick their niches Around this time six years ago, world was waking up to dangers of a brand-new virus. Was Covid a manmade pandemic?...
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The offshore incorporation paradox
Why Indian startups still incorporate abroad — even as some return home India’s startup story has entered a new phase. The earlier narrative was simple: Indian founders-built companies at home and incorporated abroad. The new...
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Grammar Of Justice
Courts must heed SC’s message. Payment to victim in lieu of sentencing inverts justice SC on Tuesday read high courts and trial courts a lesson on sentencing for the nth time – reducing sentences in...
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Get Halfway There
Countries today want to be strong in AI (artificial intelligence), just like they want to be strong in defence. But the truth is, only a few countries can fully control their AI systems because they...
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Empower, Be Chipper
To be AI player, big investments are a must in both electricity & GPUs. India has to make a choice Advanced AI chips, called GPUs, are quite expensive. Just one of these can cost over...
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Monetary policy prompts growth through credit flows
Monetary policy has been relentlessly focused on ways to increase the flow of credit to the productive sectors of the economy. Against the backdrop of a resilient economy and low inflation, keeping the repo rate...
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Shifting sands: The new geopolitical landscape in mid-February 2026
In 2026, global geopolitics is shaped less by single events and more by the complex mix of power rivalries, energy issues, shifting alliances, and new security challenges. This week shows a world that is unstable...
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No Storm In A Cup
Food research is addictive, but also disorienting. Often common sense is a better guide Now, another toast to coffee by a study of 130,000 people that suggests that two to three cups a day can...
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Shaivism and its influence outside India
Shaivism as a sect, worships various forms of Shiva and has its origins in India. The Rigvedic Rudra or the Siva-lingas reported from the sites of Saraswati-Sindhu Civilization were not confined to India. Over time,...
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For Bangladesh, this is a moment of both peril and possibility
The 2026 general election in Bangladesh — the first electoral exercise after the 2024 student-led uprising that brought an abrupt end to Sheikh Hasina’s long and increasingly authoritarian tenure—marks a decisive inflection point in the...
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What We Lose When We Give Up Reading…
…The very foundations of modern society There’s a 15-year-old YouTube video, showing a toddler scrolling and clicking on an iPad. She tries those moves on magazines, and gives up, perhaps concluding that a magazine is...
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Why political left or right are exclusionary
Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev We are witnessing a resurgence of right-wing movements worldwide. Many believe this is a natural consequence of left wing having overplayed its hand in previous decades. The result? An oscillation from one...
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This might be artful
Ireland has decided to help artists by giving some of them money every month, even if they are not selling lots of art. This money is called a “basic income.” It helps artists spend more...
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Global opportunity or legalised exploitation? Why India and the US must fix skilled migration together
Two decades of reporting, regulatory reviews, and worker advocacy reveal how employer-tied work visas and layered staffing arrangements have left many skilled migrants legally authorised to work abroad, yet economically insecure—raising shared questions of accountability...
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People or Policymakers
People in Bangladesh are voting today, and they actually have to vote twice. First, they will choose their new parliament. Second, they will vote in a referendum on a long list of changes the government...
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Clockwork orange
The recent Budget has added a new colour to India’s already colourful economy This year’s Annual Financial Statement – known to its chums as the Budget, with a capital B to show how important it...
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Explained – How language shapes power, identity, and social hierarchies
The politics of language is a multifaceted and vital area of study within sociolinguistics, political knowledge, nonfictional inquiries and historical writing. It explores how language functions as a device of authority, identity, and social fraternity,...
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Don’t Fool Yourself
Why Indians won’t suddenly start having more babies, even if important leaders say so Every few years, some well‑known people in India say that families should have lots of children—sometimes four, five, or even ten!...
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Free Thinking
Deal with Trump signals fundamental shift in India’s trade philosophy from ‘won’t buy’ to ‘will sell’ America matters, for it’s where the most money is. This year, Americans will buy clothes worth $370bn – more...
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Harvest heroes: Unsung stars of desi plates
Local ingredients like mahua, nolen gur, roselle, and pandan leaves represent a powerful resurgence in Indian cuisine, bridging ancient traditions with cutting-edge innovation. These hyperlocal treasures—harvested from forests, palms, and backyards—carry stories of sustainability and...
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What trade deal critics are getting wrong
The announcement of an India-US trade agreement has led some to ask what happened to Indian strategic autonomy. This criticism, however, misses two points. First, Indian govts have often made foreign policy trade-offs when there’s...
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Arresting Thought
SC tells cops to think before acting – good advice Supreme Court has once again read police the arrest act. Ask, it said in as many words, why arrest before making the arrest: “The police...
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Love is all about drowning in the ocean
“The intellectual is always showing off; The lover is always losing his self. The intellectual runs away, afraid of the water; Love is all about drowning in the ocean,” said Mevlana Jalal al-Din Rumi, the...
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Jam session
As elsewhere in India, Goa discovers that the path to traffic-hell is paved with good highways In Goa I’m stuck in what seems to be an unending traffic jam. The jam is not caused by...
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UGC must ensure equity does not become exclusion
As the debate on the now-stayed UGC rules regarding caste discrimination in educational institutions rages on, one must consider the root of the problem. It’s demand for ‘equity’ in place of ‘equality’. The two are...
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India as the new centre of gravity: How the EU trade deal prompted the US to act
The global order is being reshaped by overlapping shocks such as trade wars, supply-chain fragmentation, energy insecurity, and strategic rivalry among major powers. In this churn, India has moved from the periphery of rule-making to...
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Hanuman empowers us with right knowledge
By Swami Chidrupananda Why search for role models and superheroes when we have Hanumanji, who embodies all energies and higher qualities, guiding us to live most efficiently and contribute brilliantly to society? Hanuman is dear...
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Eight verses for training the mind
By The XIV Dalai Lama In seeking a meaningful life rooted in love and wisdom, few guides are more helpful than the training of the mind. Among the most revered in Tibetan tradition is the...
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Golden handshake
Gold prices have dropped a little in the last few days, so you might feel like you’ve lost money. That feeling is normal — when something you own becomes cheaper, you feel less rich. But...
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Union Budget: A surplus of sarees and the art of giving halwa
A couple of hours before the presentation of the Union Budget, Indian newsrooms, especially television studios, assume a sense of (self) importance akin to the mission control room of a rocket launching station. Both are...
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Message to markets: Bet on growth + stability
Manufacturing push, infra development and fiscal consolidation marked FM’s strategic blueprint to sustain high growth. For capital markets participants, Budget offered opportunities and incentives that reflect govt’s intent to balance growth with stability. ...
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True wealth emerges when head, heart, hand unite
By Ram Krishna Sinha Wealth creation is an art. Developing the art requires a mindset of seeing opportunities for growth, along with some essential habits such as patience and discipline. Wealth grows from consistent effort...
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Recovery happens in spurts. So does aging
Healing begins with the recognition of an injury, then the rush of blood to the site of injury. This is followed by a complex healing cascade in which the damaged tissue is removed and new...
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The world is drawing a line on social media for kids. India should too
Have you ever wondered why we set age limits for obtaining a driving licence, consuming alcohol, or even getting married? The answer lies not in arbitrary tradition but in science — more specifically, in the...
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Smog trap to blue skies, the pollution playbook Delhi-NCR desperately needs
We have mastered predictable panic. Every winter, Delhi’s air turns toxic on schedule. Schools close, offices empty and construction freezes. The timing and meteorology are understood, yet like clockwork, we respond as though ambushed: with...
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India-EU FTA: Fine print may be sobering
Most of the commentary on the India-EU free trade agreement (FTA) has highlighted the likely boost to India’s exports of labour-intensive products and certain services to the large EU market and welcomed it. There is...
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DRAM Beaters
Why AI can push up the cost of your next smartphone If we could make only one Budget wish this year, it would be that govt remains mindful of the global memory crisis. Not the...
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Missing Mumtaz in Mombasa!
Foreign cruise during Mid’s time was part of training and we were happy when it was announced that our cruise was to the continent of Africa and we would be visiting the ports of Mombasa,...
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Court on the Right Track
A court in Basti district, Uttar Pradesh, made an important decision. It told the Railways to pay ₹9.1 lakh to a 17-year-old girl. Why? Because her train was late, and she missed an important entrance...
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Just keep going: A father’s lesson across two democracies
In both India and the United States, the idea of opportunity is deeply tied to family—parents working hard so their children can move forward with stability and hope. Across cultures, the quiet values are the...
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Beyond numbers: How Budget 2026-27 can power India’s agri-food transformation?
Budget 2026-27 arrives at a moment when Indian agriculture is being rewired, node by node, across the agri-food value chain. This phase goes well beyond MSP tinkering or marginal hikes in scheme allocations; it is...
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Be On The Job
India and the European Union (EU) have just agreed on a big trade deal. Many people are excited and wondering: When will we get cheaper European wine, chocolate, and cars? The truth is, it may...
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Xi-opolitics
Something big has happened in China’s military, and it matters to countries like India China’s top leader, Xi Jinping, has removed two very powerful generals from their jobs. One of them, Zhang Youxia, was one...
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Messaging the Temple
There has been a suggestion in Uttarakhand to stop non-Hindus from entering two very important Hindu temples: Kedarnath and Badrinath. This idea came from the committee that manages these temples. But this is a bad...
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Wake Up, Bankers
A 78‑year‑old man was tricked in a cyber scam called a “digital arrest scam”. He lost ₹23 crore—a huge amount of money. The police managed to track and freeze ₹12 crore, but the rest is...
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Is gig work really good for workers? Data shows we need a more nuanced debate
On New Year’s Eve, more than 200,000 gig workers took to the streets across India to protest “10-minute delivery” promises, which the union labour ministry recently decried as responsible for unsafe and injurious driving practices....
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The door of my heart and the Phoenix
I live far, far away, in a different world—inside my heart. I call it my room—it is snuggled among the snowy mountains. How bewitching it is to watch these peaks have a romantic rendezvous with...
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Uncertainty of death and certainty of the divine
By Stuti Malhotra A recent accidental drowning of an engineer in Noida shook many people: a young man, full of promise and plans, lost his life suddenly and unexpectedly. Such news arrests our routine thinking....
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Huang or Musk, who’s got a better idea of the future?
At a big meeting in Davos, Huang told people like plumbers, electricians, and construction workers not to worry — their jobs are safe. The reason is that even if we had all the AI in...
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Vivekananda: Guru that Subhas would have accepted
By Anshul Chaturvedi “A relative of mine, who was a newcomer to the town, was living next door and I had to visit him. Glancing over his books, i came across the works of Swami...
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Strategic Thinking to Better Manage Risks
The financial sector landscape is becoming increasingly complex amid interoperable technology, buoyant growth, intensifying competition, demographic shifts, changing customer expectations, interconnectedness and interdependencies, rising risks, changing laws and regulations, geopolitical implications, and many other tectonic...
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Builders, Bill-ders
‘Development’ and ‘redevelopment’: two much The old familiar city is disappearing before our eyes. Blame the two swag words, so-called ‘development’ and ‘redevelopment’. In the first, sarkari agencies are rewriting Mortimer Wheeler’s Still Digging. In...
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Death by Admin
India has sadly seen many accidents that happen because authorities do not do their jobs properly. Still, one recent tragedy in Noida shocked many people, because it was so easy to prevent. A 27-year-old man...
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Life like a Flute
A flute can produce music that touches the deepest corners of the heart. Yet the flute itself does nothing. Music arises only when breath flows through it with care and awareness. Simply blowing air into...
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Has Andhra Pradesh slipped from constitutional governance to a ‘Red-Book rule’?
A series of recent police actions in Andhra Pradesh has stirred an unusually sharp debate. What began as isolated arrests linked to Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy’s birthday celebrations has grown into a wider discussion...
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Got Me Some Rage Bait
2025’s word of the year will do great in 2026 too Kamala was curious about the phrase that had been chosen as Oxford University Press’s word of 2025. “I can’t understand these new-fangled terms!” she...
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Invoking Ram is not religious but a moral imperative
Acharya Lokesh When i think of Ram, i do not see a distant deity sitting on a throne in heaven. I see a human being who chose the harder path when the easier one was...
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Nostalgia Lies
The new year began with longing for recent past. That’s not a good way to figure out how to negotiate the present The new year is so young, and already the young are dissing...
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At the Guru Padmasambhava Conference in Odisha’s Golden Triangle
Last month, during my visit to Bodhgaya, I happened to see a banner announcing the 2nd Padmasambhava Conference at Odisha, being held from January 11–16, 2026. Excited to attend a conference dedicated to my sat-guru,...
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Balancing scale and context in India’s classrooms
Resolving the tensions between designing for millions and responding to the needs of individual classrooms can be difficult. Here are lessons that can help. Both of us started our journeys in education at the grassroots...
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Bringing the moon to Mumbai and other lunar and loo-ny thoughts
Illustration by Chad Crowe (USA) 8am Election mornings in Mumbai have a familiar rhythm: mild domestic combat and misplaced civic pride. After a brief argument with my daughter on why her school is open while other...
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A leader’s true strength lies in active listening
Farida Khanam In Iran, ongoing protests are not merely isolated incidents of unrest; they reflect a profound and growing desire among its population – especially youth and women – for greater participation and consideration in...
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Electricity, labour, seeds: Why farmers are back on the streets
As farmers return to the streets on January 16, with bigger mobilisations planned for February 12 and February 16, it’s clear this is no routine agitation. It is a warning that rural India is running...
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India’s mission mode schemes: Built to scale, but are they built to last?
Mission-mode programmes are celebrated for delivering immediate, tangible outputs at scale. But lasting social change depends on whether institutions, capacities, and accountability survive beyond the mission. Mission-mode programmes are government initiatives designed to achieve specific, high-priority...
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Information Omission
India needs to be more open and honest with its people. For that, the Central Information Commission (CIC) and other groups that handle public information have to cooperate Recently, someone asked Indian Railways to explain...
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Soft(ware) Power
Phones to cars, software is the key product differentiator now. India should focus on taking the lead in this space Today, software is more important than ever. It runs our phones, cars, and even home...
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When courts pause, trees must not fall: Rethinking the Asharodi–Jhajhra road
The widening of the Asharodi–Jhajhra road near Dehradun has brought into sharp focus a larger and more pressing question confronting Uttarakhand today: how should development proceed in an ecologically fragile Himalayan foothill region? On January...
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Sudip Roy’s singular watercolour and rustic bronzes at Habitat Centre Delhi
Sudip Roy’s Hooghly watercolour and sculptures The Habitat Centre welcomesthe New Year with a monumental Hooghly watercolour titled Moon River, as part of TOI’s Art of India sale, along with 6 bronze sculptures that whisper...
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Emerging issues from the growth story of Haryana
Haryana completes 60 years of its formation from the erstwhile Punjab on November 1, 2025. It was the first state to achieve 100 per cent electrification and road connectivity in the early 1970s under the...
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Be a good listener
Life often teaches its most important lessons quietly. Recently, I found myself corrected not by another person but by my own reflection. The mind is quick to justify, to explain, to respond. Yet life gently...
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It’s the Bread
People often protest when life gets too hard – when they can’t afford basic things like food. This has happened in many countries: Iran, Nepal, Tunisia, old Russia, and even France a long time ago...
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Big food decides what you eat
When The Lancet released its global three-part series on ‘Ultra-Processed Foods and Human Health’ in Nov, the reaction from the world’s largest food corporations was immediate, coordinated and revealing. International Food and Beverage Alliance (IFBA),...
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Monk who inspired youth to wake up
By Narayani Ganesh Vivekananda was only thirty years old when he delivered his rousing, inspirational speech at the World Parliament of Religions in Chicago, in 1893. He presented Indian wisdom to the world in a...
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Still Grokked
Elon Musk owns a social media site called X and an AI chatbot called Grok. Grok can answer questions, crack jokes, and talk about cricket, movies, and politics. Many people in India love using it...
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Winter brain: How cold weather affects exam performance and what students can do About It
As the winter chill sets in across India, so does exam season, a combination that most students dread. While the cold brings comfort to many, it also silently affects how the brain functions, how we...
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Pakistani nuclear programme: A product of theft, deceit, and proliferation
Pakistan’s nuclear programme, from its inception in the 1970s, was fundamentally shaped by theft, deception, and systematic proliferation, involving not only individual scientists but also the country’s political leadership, military establishment, and intelligence agencies. At...
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When Your Religion Is Liberalism
It tells you what is good, normal, worthwhile in life When we look at the world rationally, the world looks rationally back, Hegel said. Following this precept enables Alexandre Lefebvre, professor of politics and philosophy,...
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The heart has eyes that perceive the real
“Beyond the stage of intellect there is another stage. In this another eye is opened,” said Persian Sufi master and philosopher Hazrat Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (1058–1111). What the great mystic referred to is the eye...
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Unplug EV Subsidy
Electric cars are good for the environment, but the government should think carefully before giving public money to help rich people buy them. Last year, India bought about 1.8 lakh electric cars, which sounds like...
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Greenbacks, Not Gunboats
Trump may get Greenland without firing a shot, if he really sweetens the deal for Greenlanders Is Greenland next? That’s the big geopolitical question, fanned daily by Trump & Co. He pulled out the national...
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Buy-buy Pakistan
Both US and China could turn our neighbouring state into real estate Donald Trump’s Chief of Staff greets her boss. CoS: Boss, I’ve got good news and gooder news. Trump: Gee, that’s great. What’s the good news? CoS: The good...
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10 mantras for happiness at work
Happiness at work? Are you kidding? Replied, one of my friends, when I asked the question: Are you happy at your work? In the modern professional landscape, the quest for workplace happiness has undergone a...
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Bullet Points
Aspiring to build India’s own Shinkansens? That needs governance to speed up first Why does any country want to follow in Japan’s bullet train tracks? Because speedier movement of people and goods means higher productivity....
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Venezuela, minerals, and lessons for India: The return of old-style imperialism
As the world saw the shocking image of President Nicolás Maduro handcuffed, forced to march in humiliating fashion with nothing but a water bottle in hand, it became painfully clear: Donald Trump’s assurances that he...
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In love with Skip
One button that promises to save us from snake oils My favourite word these days is not love or joy or those other euphemisms for sloshing about in the milk of human kindness. It is...
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When oil dictates war: Why Venezuela exposes the true cost of energy dependence
The early hours of January 3, 2026, marked not just another military intervention, but a stark reminder of a uncomfortable truth: as long as the world runs on oil, military might will shadow energy security....
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Singapore’s secret sauce: Shared crabs for social cohesion
The one enduring memory of my first trip to Singapore is of a splendid meal in one of Singapore’s many food courts. It involved chili crab, of course — this was before I became, tragically,...
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Dance in the storm. Don’t wait for rain to be over
SUMIT PAUL A New Year begins with a gush of resolutions. Aren’t New Year’s resolutions like dewdrops on grass, destined to fizzle out on the very first week of a new year? They sure are....
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Kneecap chronicles: The consistency of ‘half encounter’
In recent times, observant citizens have begun to notice a fascinating pattern in certain police operations, quietly earning its place in the folklore of urban governance. There exists a rare and astonishing branch of marksmanship,...
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Word embeddings in NLP
We will discuss word embeddings this week. Word embeddings represent a fundamental shift in natural language processing (NLP), transforming words into dense vector representations that capture semantic and syntactic meaning. Moving beyond sparse, context-agnostic methods...
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Don’t rely on NY resolutions for rejuvenation
By Radhanath Swami Have you ever wondered why we are so fascinated by new things? As children we waited eagerly for new toys. As we grew older, the desire shifted to new bicycles, gadgets, homes,...
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The US National Security Strategy 2025: We are the same, differently!
The White House has published the National Security Strategy (NSS) document of the USA under the signatures of President, Mr. Donald Trump outlining the country’s priority areas in order to safeguard the ‘core national interests’....
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