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As farmers return to the streets on January 16, with bigger mobilisations planned for February 12 and February 16, it’s clear this is no routine agitation. It is a warning that rural India is running out of patience with policies it feels were written without it. India has seen enough farmer agitations in the last…

Discussions are abuzz about the recent report of a committee calling for the capping of coaching hours for school students, along with suggestions such as redesigning school curricula to mirror post-school competitive examinations, giving greater weightage to board examination marks in admissions to higher education institutions, and more. The issues flagged herein must be viewed…

Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert, died on January 13, 2026. It feels strangely fitting that the news arrived without spectacle, because Adams spent a lifetime observing how the most consequential things in organisations rarely happen with drama. They don’t explode. They linger. They continue. They refuse to end. There is a sentence economists repeat…

“At around 3 am, inside a packed nightclub in North Goa, the music cut out. Smoke had begun to spread across the ceiling. The emergency lighting did not switch on. The exits did not open. People ran, then stumbled, then collapsed. By the time the fire was brought under control, 25 people were dead. They…

Today’s edition looks at the personal chemistry anchoring India–US ties, an Indian-origin doctor caught in America’s culture wars, and the passing of a cartoonist whose work quietly carried an IIT reference into global pop culture. Let’s go.  THE BIG STORY Trump–Modi friendship is real, says US envoy Sergio Gor, the US ambassador to India, has…

A student stayed back to chat after our online class one day. And just like that, ever so casually, she said, “My teacher in school doesn’t even know that I exist.” Just to give context, she is a student of class 12 and has had the same English teacher in school over the last two…

The issue of feeding stray dogs has sent sparks flying on social media and the public sphere. An objective perspective on the subject requires a fact-based approach. Feeding stray dogs The first fact is that feeding is legal and is supported by Animal Birth Control Rules, 2023 (ABC Rules), which are a part of the…

The smiling yellow marigolds, the peaceful white lilies and the welcoming pink dahlias. I sit in the middle of a garden—my eyes soaking different moods of the colours around me. What a relief from my hectic routine! To be sitting amongst the velvety petals that are glowing with life—despite having only a few days to…

Who is a data scientist? What does he do? What steps are involved in executing an end-to-end data science project? What roles are available in the industry? Will I need to be a good coder to be a good data scientist? How do we solve a data science problem in healthcare without domain knowledge of…

Centuries ago, Plato argued that if there were an invisible ring that could make men unseen, they would not remain just. Not many have disagreed with this assumption. If we momentarily set aside what justice ought to be, the truth is that for much of humankind, justice has been a conditional moral ground, one that…