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As a police officer with over three decades, and the author of a dozen books—including poems, romantic fictions, murder mysteries, and non-fictional works exploring policing and life realities—I’ve come to accept a peculiar pattern. Often found myself at the crossroads of duty and expression. People seem to have this neatly boxed idea of what I…

The Cold War of the twentieth century was visible. It marched in uniforms, tested missiles, and divided maps with ideological clarity. The Cold War of the twenty-first century is far harder to photograph because it hides inside semiconductor fabs, shipping routes, cloud infrastructure, battery minerals, undersea cables, and algorithmic trade systems. It reveals itself not…

It often surprises me that at times, people consider Sufis to be austere, withdrawn figures, removed from the rhythms and warmth of ordinary life. I have observed some people carry the perception that a Sufi, immersed in devotion to the Almighty, shall be a serious, stern person given to little or no humour. This assumption…

I always thought I was a winner. Not in celebrated Bollywood hero kind of way, but in the way my mother said it, like a family joke she loved too much to repeat. “You were the winning sperm,” she would tell people, as if she had been at the starting line clapping for a tiny…

Today’s edition looks at the Indian-origin figures making news across politics, power and possibility: Vivek Ramaswamy’s attempt to turn MAGA suspicion into electoral strength in Ohio, Kash Patel’s latest Washington headache over a missing bourbon bottle, and a group of Brampton students with Indian-origin members who beat 23,000 competitors to design a future space settlement…

A few months ago, a musician reached out to tell me what our software had done for him. After a stroke, he couldn’t remember the notes to the songs he had spent decades composing. The melodies were gone from his memory, and the recordings sat on his hard drive like locked boxes. Our AI tool…

Bengal’s long and grim tradition of post-poll violence is on display again. The murder of BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari’s personal assistant, shot dead by bike-borne assailants in Madhyamgram, is the darkest shadow so far. Across the state, incidents of arson and vandalism targeted Trinamool offices in Kolkata, Howrah, Asansol, Siliguri and Baruipur. In Birbhum, a…

As May 31, 2026, approaches, the question of who will succeed Dr Samir V Kamat as secretary of Defence R&D and Chairman of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) is no routine bureaucratic matter. It is, quite simply, a question of national importance—one that rises above electoral cycles and political rhetoric. At stake is…

Mental health is the most important and crucial part of a person’s everyday life. If it gets affected, then one’s functioning as a human being also gets affected, resulting in different responses from the brain and body. Mental health issues are those that affect a person’s thinking, emotions, behaviour, or overall functioning of the brain. In…

A new milestone in Vietnam–Sri Lanka relations that strengthens the New Delhi-Colombo-Hanoi trilateral strategic space. The State visit to Sri Lanka by General Secretary and President of Vietnam To Lam on May 7–8, 2026 is not merely a routine bilateral diplomatic engagement. It marks an important milestone in Vietnam’s efforts to expand its strategic presence…