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Welcome back to another edition of My Take 5. This week we are covering the situation in the Strait of Hormuz, historic elections in Hungary, polls in Bulgaria, Ukraine’s robot army, and the Baltic states’ principled stance against Russian aggression. So let’s get to it. Hormuz opens and then shuts again: What a difference a week…

Picture this: a movie star and a mystic are sitting across from each other. Alia Bhatt says she likes her nine hours of sleep. Sadhguru says he now sleeps around four to four-and-a-half hours, and earlier, even less. Then comes the line that made half the internet combust: “When do you live?” And just like…

We are in Delhi’s Prithviraj Market, visiting Mirajuddin, the best mutton shop ever. I go ahead to give the order. Outside the shop, the young man at the counter says, “Rajdeep bhai nahi aye?” I say he is coming. While wiping his cutting board, the owner asks, “And where is bhaijaan?” I reply, coming. Then…

1. Education is fundamental for achieving full human potential, says the New Education Policy (NEP 20) and for “developing an equitable and just society”, “promoting national development”, “developing and maximizing our country’s rich talents and resources for the good of the individual, the society, the country, and the world”. A way forward towards Naitik and…

One can think of modernity as an eraser. We first classify nature as a form of friction. And then set about removing that friction. Hills, heat, crowds, waiting, bad roads, rain, bad air, noise. All the small resistances that once defined what it meant to move through a place are recast as defects in a…

In the last 3 parts, we argued that when the basis of consideration is matter or material, Time is definitely a traitor. Scientifically, we saw that time is not considered when we are dealing with unified fields or a whole system (the Universe). This is the case when the subject matter is Matter or Material….

‘With timid eyes and faint smiles our fondness bloomed like pink tulips…..’ A few weeks after my heated encounter with Mrs. Kapoor, I desperately avoided locking eyes with her. For days, I peeked out from… Source link

“Through Sanskrit, Bharatvarsha descends into your heart.” — Mohan Bhagwat, Sarsanghchalak, RSS Since the days of invasions, the first attacks by enemies have often been directed at the pillars that sustained the nation and its people—libraries, books, authors, and gurus—followed by common men, women, and children. The motive was to dismantle belief systems, erode society’s…

World can’t be held to ransom for Iran’s uranium. Opening Hormuz should be Trump’s priority Last year, the world economy grew by 3.4%. This was a small increase, especially after Trump’s tariffs. In January, the IMF predicted that 2026 would also see 3.4% growth. Now it has cut that estimate to 3.1%, and its chief…

JNU (a famous university in India) is adding 5% more seats for students. That sounds like good news because lots of students want to get in—last year, about 16 lakh students signed up for the… Source link