Got Me Some Rage Bait

2025’s word of the year will do great in 2026 too Kamala was curious about the phrase that had been chosen as Oxford University Press’s word of 2025. “I can’t understand these new-fangled terms!” she declared. I smiled to myself at the irony of the situation. Rage baiting should be familiar to all older married…

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Home Isn’t Just 3BHK

To ease housing crisis, reduce costs of land and construction with some out-of-the-box ideas  One of Harvard’s most famous alums, the philosopher Thoreau, hand-built his famous cabin near Walden Pond, using wood from an abandoned shanty. You may not wish to be so modest, but with house prices soaring almost everywhere, you may have to….

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Daughter Of Manipur

Imphal & New Delhi failed her. And that failure is at the heart of why peace is so elusive in the state    A Manipuri woman whose case had become emblematic of sexual violence during the 2023 ethnic strife in the state, passed away, without a single perpetrator identified. She was 18 when she was abducted…

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Is Trump starting an arms race?

Trump had promised to end all wars in his second term as US president. He had also aggressively sought the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts. But he has changed course. This month, he has declared on Truth Social that he would ask US Congress for a $1.5tn defence budget in 2027, a 66% increase…

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Thundering silence can be joyful

By Thich Nhat Hanh Sometimes when we think of silence, we think of an enforced restriction, such as a dictatorship shutting down freedom of expression, or an elder lecturing that “children should be seen and not heard,” or one member of a household forbidding others from talking about a sensitive topic. That kind of silence…

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Home Isn’t Just a 3BHK 

Houses are becoming very expensive all over the world. Because of this, people are trying new and creative ways to build homes A long time ago, a famous thinker named Thoreau built a tiny cabin in the forest using wood from an old broken hut. Today, many people don’t want to live so simply, but…

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Daughter Of Manipur

Imphal & New Delhi failed her. And that failure is at the heart of why peace is so elusive in the state    A young woman from Manipur became a symbol of how badly women suffered during the ethnic violence in the state in 2023. She was only 18 years old when members of an armed…

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Is the uni-verse illogical, accidental, divisive or logically loving & uniting!

Need for a universal Holistic Worldview of my ‘Self’ as whole ‘Reality’: In our daily Workings and living, every moment, we deal with ‘things, beings, situations, experiences’ based on our respective Selfish and Self-centered perceptions and ideas as stored in our respective Mind. And therefore, our Perceptions and Responses to same situations are generally self-centered and…

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