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An Open Letter to President Donald Trump
Mr. President, History has a quiet way of asking uncomfortable questions. It does not shout. It observes. And then, years later, it decides. What makes a leader endure in its...
HC worries over Godavari pollution
Slams authorities for not taking action
Kaleidoscope
People perform rituals on Govardhan Puja in Shivamogga, Karnataka. Nihang Sikh warrior demonstrates horseback riding skills during the Fateh Divas celebrations in Amritsar, Punjab. A child covers her face amid...
Prosperity: Beyond Money, Towards Fulfilment
This Diwali, let us look beyond wealth and material possessions to understand what it truly means to be prosperous.
Books Before Bytes
A child asks an artificial-intelligence chatbot to explain a poem, solve a sum or write a paragraph before learning to read the question carefully. This is no longer futuristic. AI...
Final Frontier
The total collapse of the armed Maoist corridor in India’s jungles stands as a monumental victory of raw political will. But Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s latest salvo against ‘Dimagi Naxals’...
Faith, Power and the Peetham: The Battle Within Kudali Sringeri Matha
The junior pontiff’s ordeal at the Matha exposes a bitter succession controversy involving allegations of harassment and questions over institutional control.
Final Frontier
The total collapse of the armed Maoist corridor in India’s jungles stands as a monumental victory of raw political will. But Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s latest salvo against ‘Dimagi Naxals’...
Harvest Hopes
is traditionally a celebration of abundance. This year, though, as Maharashtra celebrates the festival, the familiar glow of its lamps comes with an uncomfortable qualification. With a debilitating drought looming,...
Politics
Ambernath man eyes Japan poll comeback
Mumbai: Bouncing from Thane’s Ambernath town to Pune to Japan’s political arena, Dr. Yogendra (Yogi) Puranik who created history in 2019 as the first Indian-origin Japanese lawmaker is now preparing...
Politics
NCP merger stalls amid power tussle
Leadership disputes, alliance compulsions derail reunification
Politics
Power tussle threatens cooperative autonomy
Gokul controversy raises a larger question about democratic ethics
Politics
Business
The Gig Economy’s Festive Paradox
While India’s festive economy generates millions of orders and thousands of temporary jobs, the social security of the people who keep it moving remains an unfinished promise
Business
Diwali and Gold
As Diwali arrives, gold once again takes centre stage in Indian households. For generations, buying gold during Dhanteras and Diwali has been considered a symbol of prosperity, purity, and good...
Business
Vendor Or Partner? Brand Decides
“Please share your best commercial by Friday." That was the entire email. No greeting. No context on what the project was for. No question about what the founder thought. It...
Business
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Panipat 1556, or the Arrow that Changed India’s History
Hemu’s defeat at the Second Battle of Panipat, sealed by a cruel twist of fate, secured the fragile Mughal future and closed the door on an alternative course of Indian...
Lords of Kalinjar: The Chandellas and the Struggle for Central India
Long before Khajuraho became a shorthand for erotic sculpture, Sisir Kumar Mitra’s history reveals the formidable dynasty that made those temples possible.
The Diplomat as Gambler: A.J.P. Taylor and the Fall of Old Europe
In the gadfly historian’s classic The Struggle for Mastery in Europe, diplomacy is less a stately art than a dangerous game of miscalculation and bluff. Seventy years on, the world...
Geopolitics
Caracas, 1976: The Apogee of Petro Power
The ongoing Iran war has unleashed one of the most severe energy shocks in decades. Our five-part series explores decisive moments when turmoil in the energy world changed the trajectory...
Geopolitics
Riyadh, 1973: The Great Energy Shock and Unravelling of the West
The ongoing Iran war has unleashed one of the most severe energy shocks in decades. Our five-part series explores decisive moments when turmoil in the energy world changed the trajectory...
Geopolitics
Baghdad, 1960: Seven Sisters, Oil Rebels and Fall of an Oligarchy
The ongoing Iran war has unleashed one of the most severe energy shocks in decades. Our five-part series explores decisive moments when turmoil in the energy world changed the trajectory...
Geopolitics
An Open Letter to President Donald Trump
Mr. President, History has a quiet way of asking uncomfortable questions. It does not shout. It observes. And then, years later, it decides. What makes a leader endure in its...
A Grand Folly Worth Fighting For: Sergei Bondarchuk’s ‘Waterloo’
There was a time when war films aspired to something greater than the blood-spattered grit of today or tightly choreographed mayhem. They sought to understand history, to frame battles not...
Decoding Crime Through Language
Through linguistic forensics, even the smallest language patterns can leave a trail to a hidden identity.
A Ph.D. Without Walls, But With Guardrails
Doctoral education must reward intellectual independence and scientific integrity, recognising that a researcher’s contribution may lie as much in challenging an assumption as in discovering an answer.
The Longitude of Self-Reliance
The successful launch of NVS-03 strengthens NavIC, advancing the country’s quest for technological self-reliance in a strategically critical domain.
Education
Books Before Bytes
A child asks an artificial-intelligence chatbot to explain a poem, solve a sum or write a paragraph before learning to read the question carefully. This is no longer futuristic. AI...
Education
The Price of a Classroom Seat
For a student from a drought-stricken village in Maharashtra, getting into college may be only the beginning of a much harder struggle. The real challenge often starts afterwards: finding two...
Education
Bridging the Counsellor Gap
The recurring news of student suicides in India’s premier technical institutions presents a distressing picture of the country's higher education system. Widespread student demonstrations across various Indian Institutes of Technology...
Education
Ecology
HC worries over Godavari pollution
Slams authorities for not taking action
Ecology
Climate change triggers 8,830 preterm births
Mumbai: Climate change may be threatening unborn babies with a new study claiming that global-warming triggered an additional 8,830 premature births in India in just one month - April 2024...
Ecology
When Producers Made Responsible for E-Waste
If a company makes and sells an electronic product, it should also take responsibility for what happens to that product when it becomes waste. As we have seen, electronic waste...
Ecology
Prosperity: Beyond Money, Towards Fulfilment
This Diwali, let us look beyond wealth and material possessions to understand what it truly means to be prosperous.
Lessons in Cultural Diplomacy
As Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei and Singapore take shared traditions to UNESCO, India must find ways to revive and showcase its own cultural connections with Southeast Asia.
Making Room for Those Who Choose to Stay In
This Diwali, let us remember that not everyone celebrates the same way. Let's make people feel accepted, whether they join us or stay in.
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