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Sunday mornings are usually reserved for aloo parathas, lazy cups of ginger tea, and perhaps a bit of gardening. But for the last three months, my Sundays were hijacked by a new obsession, the “Happy Living Space”. It started innocently enough. I was stuck in the infamous city traffic one Tuesday evening, staring out of…
I grew up enduring asthma. As a child, I could rarely play on the field. Running (or even walking fast) made me breathless. By the time I was 10 years old, I had seen the intensive care unit (ICU) three times, all because my bronchitis was deteriorating from bad to worse. But I loved to…
Foreign cruise during Mid’s time was part of training and we were happy when it was announced that our cruise was to the continent of Africa and we would be visiting the ports of Mombasa, Dar es Salaam and Diego Suarez in Kenya, Tanzania and Madagascar, respectively. It was to be about a month-long cruise…
Tamil Nadu Governor R N Ravi recently refused to read the Governor’s address approved by the cabinet in the Legislative Assembly and walked out of the house. Following this, Chief Minister M K Stalin moved a resolution to include the printed copy of the Governor’s address in the assembly proceedings, which was unanimously passed by…
Welcome back to another edition of My Take 5, your weekly round-up of top international news. This week we are covering developments in Syria between Damascus and the Kurds, the signing of the India-EU FTA, Russia-Ukraine war negotiations, China’s purging of its top general, and EU’s recognition of Morocco’s position on the Moroccan Sahara. So,…
This week, America’s gun lobby turns on one of its own, an Indian-origin cyber chief lands in hot water over ChatGPT, and a forgotten Hindi classic quietly finds new life. Power, paranoia and poetry.Let’s go. THE BIG STORY Second Amendment revolt America’s gun rights movement is fracturing, and the target is not a Democrat. A…
The recent Report on Trend and Progress of Banking in India” 2024-25 highlighted the continued resilience of the banking sector amid moderating growth, with double-digit balance sheet expansion, multi-decade low NPAs, robust profitability, and healthy capital buffers. Among the performance parameters, the most significant has been the steady improvement in banks’ asset quality, particularly over…
One of my students recently wrote me a poem about her learning experience in my third-year design studio. It was thoughtful, honest, and unexpectedly moving—but it was the opening lines that truly gave me pause. She wrote about being late to class. About standing outside the door, afraid to walk in late, afraid of being…
The global political and economic order is changing fast. Power is no longer concentrated in one country or defined solely by military strength or economic size. Today, it depends on trust, respect for sovereignty, and the ability of democracies to work together without coercion. One fact is clear: India matters more than ever, and both…
Last week, I developed the agentic AI brainstorming platform, an application that lets you watch two AI personalities (Synthia and Arul) have intelligent conversations about any marketing topic you choose. Think of it as a digital debate club where two very different AI characters discuss topics and reach conclusions together. Synthia is the creative thinker….
