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The heart is not always its GSP marker The news refuses to go away even when you think you’ve got away. The first visual at London’s Museum of the Home’ was of  ‘Bunoo’, an ayah brought to England from Calcutta in 1878 ‘to look after the Stevenson family’s children during the long voyage’, and then…

A Nashik family’s nightmare experience speaks to a danger lurking across India’s public spaces A family picnic represents a refresh button: To enjoy fresh air, sunlight, green grass, and good food, in the good company of one’s loved ones. But the whole thing’s also a risk. Because safety in our public spaces has become so…

One new tech can’t rescue Chinese economy buffeted by powerful negative forces. For all the worry about how America has become one big bet on AI, a similar but perhaps more alarming story is unfolding more quietly in the other economic superpower. China’s vaunted AI prowess is concealing deep rot elsewhere in its economy. Read…

A weak monsoon should nudge farmers to grow more pulses, oilseeds and millets, not water-hungry sugarcane We knew in April this was going to be a weak monsoon. With half of July gone, around 400 of India’s districts have a rain deficit. That’s a challenge for Indian agriculture, which is still highly rain-dependent. Govt data…

Peace of mind and non-violence are connected intricately. Ahimsa or non-violence brings about peace of mind, and when you are peaceful within, you naturally become non-violent. Have you ever felt like hitting somebody? Why is that violence arising in your mind? What is the source of the violence? As you watch the source of violence,…

Reeya Rene Rajpal passed out from Jamia Millia Islamia University in 2025 as the gold medalist in painting and went to London,  Camberwell College of Arts,  to  pursue her post graduate studies. Rene has been part of many prestigious exhibitions in India the most important being Art Of India by the TOI group. London exhibition In London, this June…

Chief minister Yogi Adityanath is restoring cultural identity and civilisational heritage by reinstating the original names of places in Uttar Pradesh A nation that forgets its identity not only loses its sense of pride but also its direction for the future. It is often said that a tree cut off from its roots can never…

Wars continue to rage in Ukraine and the Middle East. European governments are committing tens of billions more to defence while economic uncertainty deepens at home. Energy costs remain high, industrial competitiveness is under pressure, and immigration has become one of the defining political issues across the continent. It is against this backdrop that Germany,…

The public face of artificial intelligence is the launch — a bigger model, a slicker demo, a new headline. The harder, quieter problem begins the moment those systems go live and have to run continuously, at scale, without failing in ways that cost real money. That problem is no longer abstract. On October 20, 2025,…

Ladakh is a fiercely patriotic region where every citizen works as an unrecruited soldier. The victory slogan of the indomitable Ladakh Scouts is “Ki Ki So So Lhargyalo” –– meaning “Victory to the Gods.” It is the military battle cry of soldiers who are as tough as the Ladakhi mountains, yet as warm at heart…