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Life in America today can be very loud and stressful. There is news, noise, and people arguing all the time. But right now, something very quiet and unusual is happening. A group of Buddhist monks has started a long walk—about 3,700 kilometres—from Texas to Washington DC. It will take them around 110 days. They walk…

India’s push towards frictionless, digital-first air travel has an unexpected casualty: the South Indian name. Digi Yatra, the biometric-based airport entry system, promises speed, convenience, and a glimpse of a high-tech future. Walk up, let the camera recognise your face, and pass through without fumbling for documents. In theory, it is elegant. In practice, it…

Noida’s terrible tragedy tells us how little citizens matter to civic authorities, never mind post-tragedy probes     Even a country used to terrible accidents caused by civic authorities’ criminal negligence, was shaken by the death of a 27-year-old in Noida – because it’s unbelievable how a tragedy so avoidable was allowed to happen. An investigation team…

BJP has anointed a chief technician to run its vast administrative and electoral machine. From Nitin Who on the date his name was announced on Dec 14, 2025, to head the world’s largest political party on Jan 20, 2026, Nitin Nabin has seen a remarkable spike in terms of name recognition. But this does not…

Reflecting the current flux in world politics, India and UAE concluded a ‘Letter of Intent for a bilateral Strategic Defence Partnership’. This happened during the three-hour visit by UAE’s President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan to New Delhi on Monday.It’s evident from the phrasing of the partnership as a ‘letter of intent’ that it’s…

By Shashank Joshi and Shambo Samrat Samajdar Shatapath Brahman describes time as a graceful inward journey, where each unit becomes progressively finer, almost like zooming into the universe with a cosmic microscope. A muhurt lasts 48 minutes, but time does not stop there. It keeps dissolving – into seconds, milliseconds, microseconds, and finally into nanoseconds…

A walk for peace in America uses conceptual tools that originated in our land, but we have neglected In the din and clatter that engulfs Americans today, many of them are reporting an unusual moment of stillness. This is happening en route a 3700 km pilgrimage, taking a group of Buddhist monks from their vipassana…

Renamed places can make people wonder where they are In a movie I saw recently a teenaged daughter asks her father the name of the capital of Croatia. The father confesses he doesn’t know.   The admission made me wonder if the actor knows the answer. And then the thought struck me that I didn’t know what…

A series of recent police actions in Andhra Pradesh has stirred an unusually sharp debate. What began as isolated arrests linked to Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy’s birthday celebrations has grown into a wider discussion on how policing is being carried out and whether the law is being applied evenly. The contrast between the scale…

Over the last decade, India has seen an unprecedented rise in youth participation in public life. Young Indians have been mobilised, mentored, and drawn into the national conversation in ways that were simply not visible a generation ago. Political youth organisations have been at the centre of this shift, energising first-time voters, shaping opinion, and…