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On 28th March, one of the newspapers in Ranchi highlighted that nearly 250 organizations are working together across the country to combat child...
What is our greatest identity as human beings? The question may seem simple, yet its answer is profound and layered. Language, religion, nationality,...
India is home to nearly 270 million tobacco users and accounts for roughly one-fifth of all tobacco-related deaths worldwide. Every day, approximately...
One year after Operation Sindoor pushed India and Pakistan to the edge of open war, South Asia is living through a paradox: deterrence succeeded, but...
India’s investment slowdown is no longer a cyclical economic problem. It is becoming a structural crisis of confidence. For years, New Delhi has...
Elections in our country are often described as the largest democratic exercise in human history, and the numbers alone justify that claim. Nearly a...
The Indian Opposition’s deepest crisis is no longer electoral. It is psychological. For nearly a decade, anti-BJP politics has revolved around a...
Suvendu Adhikari’s rise to the chief minister’s chair marks more than the fall of a 15-year government. It signals the collapse of an entire...
The scheduled visit o f President Donald Trump to Beijing on May 14-15 2026, marks a pivotal moment in global diplomacy , signalling an attempt to...
One Year Operation Sindoor lit up the skies and delivered justice to terror networks, one truth stands crystal clear: Uttar Pradesh has become the...
The continuing conflict in West Asia and the growing instability surrounding Iran have once again exposed a hard geopolitical reality: for large...
The democratic exercise in India is often described as a festival, a vibrant spectacle of participation that defines the nation’s spirit. Yet, as...
President Donald Trump’s abrupt decision to pause “Project Freedom” barely 50 hours after launching it says less about diplomacy than about the...
The swearingin of West Bengal’s first B J P government on Rabindra Jayanti is not merely symbolic politics. It is a civilisational correction. For...
The recent vote in the British House of Commons was never just about whether Prime Minister Keir Starmer would face an inquiry. It was a test of...
Indian cities are experiencing not only escalating temperature, but also a growing demand for quick commerce as summer peaks. Consumers are demanding...
For decades, West Bengal occupied a distinct place in India’s political imagination. While large parts of the country moved through waves of caste...
Sri Ramakrishna’s knowledge of God (Brahma-Jnana) covered the essences of all other faiths as well, for he tasted Him in them too. He found the Same...
Assam’s 2026 verdict is more than another state election win for the BJP. It marks the consolidation of a political model that may increasingly...
Among all the Assembly elections held in 2026, it was the results from Bengal that generated the greatest national curiosity. From media to menfolk,...
At the start of 2026, I had gone to Somnath for the Somnath Swabhiman Parv, marking a thousand years since the first attack on the Somnath Temple. I...
People of all religious faiths admit that God is the Creator and controller of the universe, therefore He is Almighty. Hindus worship Him as an...
Kerala’s 2026 verdict is not simply the defeat of a government. It is the collapse of a political assumption that welfare delivery alone can...
The ascent of actor Vijay to the pinnacle of power in Tamil Nadu marks more than a celebrity’s political success ~ it signals a structural shift in...
For the first time in more than five decades, eastern India stands at the threshold of political alignment, policy stability, and economic...
We Indians are often mocked on social media as belonging to “the dirtiest country” or being “the dirtiest people.” The words sting because...
The electoral defeat of outgoing West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee marks more than the fall of a three-term incumbent. It signals the...
India’s digital payments revolution has been sold as a triumph of speed, scale and inclusion. From roadside vendors to urban professionals, millions...
On 20 April, India’s Chief of Army Staff, General Upendra Dwivedi, touched down in Hawaii for talks with the Commanding General of the US Army...
India has barely settled into E20, a petrol blended with 20 per cent ethanol, and the next shift is already on the table. Policymakers are preparing...
Since the much-hyped visit of the leader of the opposition, Rahul Gandhi to Andaman and Nicobar, amidst multiple state elections, to protest against...
Recent developments highlight how maritime chokepoints remain critical to both geopolitical contestation and geo-economic stability. In the Strait of...
India, proud of its dynamic democratic credentials, has over the years allowed a criminal justice system to develop that shields the accused far more...
The unfolding verdict in West Bengal tells us several things, but most important of these is the fact that the charisma of Prime Minister Narendra...
The results emerging from Tamil Nadu, Assam, Kerala, and Puducherry do not point to a single national trend. Instead, they reveal a fragmented...
In a village in Odisha, a man arrived at a bank carrying what no institution expects to confront: the skeletal remains of his sister. The act was...
When King Charles III rose to address the US Congress, the setting suggested a ceremony. The substance suggested something closer to intervention. At...
As a child, I played a game called ‘Saap Seeri’ (Snakes and Ladders). It was a simple pursuit: except for an occasion or two – having not...
The big news from Tokyo is that the Japanese Diet on 21 April sharply eased its arms export rules, allowing in principle the overseas transfer of...
The first lesson from economics, appearing at the beginning of Nobel Laureate Paul A Samuelson’s magnum opus “Foundations of Economic Analysis”...
In India’s industrial imagination, small manufacturing clusters are often celebrated as engines of resilience – nimble, labour-intensive, and...
An election does not lose credibility in a single moment. It erodes gradually ~ through procedural choices, administrative discretion, and the...
In an era defined by electoral intensity and unceasing political spectacle, the quiet moral authority of history often fades into the background. As...
A couple of weeks ago, on 18 April, the annual ‘World Heritage Day’ came and went almost unnoticed in Kolkata. It is usually a moment when a city...
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...
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