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Think of Tantra as a timeless tradition that goes back to antiquity. Distinguished Indian pedagogue and printmaker Dipak Banerjee went on a French Scholarship to Paris and Oslo.William Hayter’s Atelier 17 gave him the proficiency to study the process of multicoloured intaglios with the viscosity method.He worked in Norway for a while and came to…

As Trump begins his highly anticipated summit with Xi today, there’s one aspect of the US-China strategic calculus that comes into sharp focus. The US-India-Japan-Australia quadrilateral dialogue or Quad is, metaphorically speaking, dead in the water. It’s still afloat, but just barely. India is still waiting to host the leaders-level summit due in 2025. Read…

I keep walking in shoes that don’t really feel like mine,   I try to run; they restrict and hurt while I pretend everything is fine.  I’ve run in them trying to chase restless dreams of my own,   But they always seem out of reach like a distance that has grown.  I stumble, chasing after expectations-…

For the last decade, banks and financial institutions have been told the same story: become more digital or get left behind. That story is not wrong. It is just incomplete. The real question is no longer whether a bank has an app, a chatbot, a slick onboarding flow, or a digital lending portal. Those are…

Well into the third month of the Iran war, earlier assumptions of a short-lived conflict, have now been negated. Over the past week, even as physical shortages of oil seem to have eased, oil’s price for March 2027 delivery has risen nearly 10% to $83/barrel. It is now prudent to start measuring the impact on…

If ministers have decided to travel in smaller convoys, and bureaucrats are conducting business without logging air miles, we can’t complain. For, frugality is always a virtue – not just in a crisis. As George Eliot said of a wealthy family: “They never suffered a pinch of salt to be wasted.” The belief that “money…

By Aacharya Pragyasagar Human life is a remarkable journey, one that begins with arrival and continues through many transitions. We celebrate birth with joy, yet the mere mention of death fills us with fear, grief, and uncertainty. This contrast arises not from truth, but from our limited understanding. If life is an art, then death…

The PM has called for spending wisely—starting at the pump. The bigger leak is at the traffic signal. Outside Parliament in Delhi, convoy vehicles often stand for hours waiting for MPs and VIPs — engines running, ACs blasting continuously. Hundreds of cars. All burning fuel while stationary, generating more heat in already unbearable conditions, and…

There is a quiet, beautiful rule followed in every Disneyland across the world. No character is allowed to be the first to let go of a child’s hug. It is always the child who decides when to step away. Because children do not always have the words for what they feel. Sometimes they do not…

A simple classroom question can open up a far deeper lesson. When a teacher asks why the sky appears blue or whether a viral claim is credible, the exercise goes beyond science; it tests a student’s ability to question, verify, and think independently. That capacity, educators say, defines critical thinking, a skill rapidly gaining urgency…