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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