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When His Holiness The 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet endorsed a powerful appeal for peace by the Holy Father, Pope Leo, during Palm Sunday Mass on 31 March...
When regulators move early, markets often complain. That familiar tension is now visible in India’s banking sector as the Reserve Bank of India...
When a pair of handcrafted leather sandals travels from a rural workshop in Maharashtra to a glass-lit boutique in Milan, its journey is not merely...
It is about three and a half decades since Satyajit Ray (1921-1992) has left us. The appeal of the large body of his films remains undimmed in his...
Indian cities are experiencing not only escalating temperature, but also a growing demand for quick commerce as the summer intensifies. Consumers are...
When comedian Jimmy Kimmel described First Lady Melania Trump as an “expectant widow,” it passed, at first, as another barbed line in America’s...
When US President Donald Trump abruptly called off a planned diplomatic outreach to Pakistan involving envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner,...
At a time when classrooms are increasingly defined by examination scores, rankings, and relentless competition, it is worth asking a fundamental...
Negativity diffuses significantly farther and faster than positivity. Yet, with active goodwill, we can very well spread positivity. “A lie”, said...
The clearance of the Rohith Vemula Bill by the Karnataka Cabinet marks a significant moment in India’s higher education scenario. The draft of the...
For decades, the story of China’s rise was told through the movement of containers, ships loaded with electronics, machinery, and textiles leaving...
One of India’s most influential leaders, YB Chavan, had variously held important positions like that of the Defence Minister, Home Minister, Finance...
The defection of seven MPs from the Aam Aadmi Party to the Bharatiya Janata Party is being read as a political crisis within AAP. It is that ~ but it...
A nation that once renounced war now stands at the edge of rewriting its identity. Japan, shaped by the ashes of World War II, based its global...
When US President Donald Trump amplifies a voice describing countries like India in demeaning terms, the issue is not merely one of bad language. It...
India’s digital ecosystem has grown rapidly, and online platforms now play a central role in how people communicate and access information. This has...
A decade after India attained independence, Aldous Huxley, an English writer and philosopher, was deeply pessimistic about the future of Indian...
The evening was meant to affirm the choreography of American power: elected officials, journalists, and cultural figures gathered under one roof,...
The death of Raghu Rai marks more than the passing of a celebrated photographer; it signals the quiet erosion of a way of seeing India that is...
The US-Israel conflict with Iran has shifted to a US-Iran confrontation. Israel, the initiator, which pulled the US in, has been sidelined, and is...
“Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.” Rousseau’s words, written centuries ago, continue to resonate with disturbing clarity in our...
India’s latest attempt to govern online gaming marks a subtle but consequential shift in regulatory thinking. Instead of casting a wide net over all...
In India’s evolving professional landscape, the rise of executive education is less about learning than about signaling. Mid-career professionals...
The world is currently witnessing a volatile escalation in the Middle East, with the conflict between the United States, its allies, and Iran crossing...
From early 2025 to now, the world has faced a dangerous new reality. Conflicts between countries are growing rapidly, and many of them are no longer...
Women’s empowerment is often spoken of in the language of legislation-laws passed, quotas reserved, and rights guaranteed. Yet empowerment cannot be...
West Bengal has been described by ruling Trinamool as “the sweetest part of India”. It is inarguably a fitting epithet for a state which boasts...
“The greatest threat to global energy security in history.” That is how the International Energy Agency has described the crisis. It was triggered...
The contest over who leads the United States Federal Reserve is no longer a technocratic exercise. It has become a proxy battle over the meaning of...
In the border districts of West Bengal, citizenship is not an abstract legal status; it is a lived uncertainty. For thousands of Matua families, many...
Safety and Risk Management today is a high-order science that relies on extremely sophisticated computational tools. Modern risk analysis requires...
When a war pauses without moving closer to peace, the pause itself becomes the strategy. That is the significance of President Donald Trump’s...
In election seasons, noise is often mistaken for momentum. Rallies swell, slogans sharpen, and television debates grow louder by the day. Yet, in West...
For more than a decade, NVIDIA’s CUDA platform has been the backbone of modern artificial intelligence. It is not just a software framework but a...
In West Bengal’s election theatre, a fish is no longer just a fish. It has become a political instrument ~ held up, quite literally, as proof of...
For decades, India’s political system rested on a quiet understanding. Representation would not be allowed to track population changes too closely,...
On 24 April 2026 , India completes five years of the SVAMITVA (Survey of Villages and Mapping with Improvised Technology in Village Areas) Scheme –...
Katchatheevu never needs an invitation in Tamil Nadu politics. It turns up on its own – like that extra vada that arrives with a masala dosa. Small,...
The Government introduced three Bills in a special session of the Lok Sabha convened on 16 April 2026: (i) the Constitution (131st Amendment) Bill...
On the occasion of World Earth Day, the conversation around sustainability often turns to forests, oceans, and climate. Yet, one of the most critical...
The electoral sky over battleground Bengal is thick with the dust raised by the controversy surrounding the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of...
India is once again debating numbers ~ how many Members of Parliament it should have, how many seats each state deserves, and whether expanding...
India’s metro rail expansion is often presented as a symbol of arrival ~ a visual shorthand for modernity, efficiency, and global ambition. From...
At a time of profound shifts in global geopolitical and geo – economics landscape, His Excellency Lee Jae Myung, President of the Republic of Korea,...
Recent times have seen “strongmen” leaders like Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, Mohammad Bin Salman, Paul Kagame, Kim Jong Un etc. rule with authority...
The recent failure to pass a constitutional amendment expanding the Lok Sabha and state assemblies and linking it to women’s reservation is being...
A few months ago, a cultural event in Kolkata centred on the Bengali word heyro. Loosely translated as “loser,” the programme leaned playfully...
The controversy surrounding British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and the appointment of Peter Mandelson as Ambassador to the United States is no longer...
Geopolitical upheaval costs nations, leading to prolonged uncertainty and human sufferings which get compounded by a food and energy crisis. The...
The ceasefire in Iran is likely to end shortly, resulting in either renewed attacks or a peace deal, details of which could emerge soon. US President...
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