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The locational debate between temple and mosque is India is timeless. The Archaeological Survey of India continuously have surveyed and excavated several such disputed locations on the basis of legal orders and in order to establish peace and harmony in the society. A similar such case is the Bhojshala, located in Dhar, Madhya Pradesh. Currently,…

Sudip Roy’s Hooghly watercolour and sculptures  The Habitat Centre welcomesthe New Year with a monumental Hooghly watercolour titled Moon River, as part of TOI’s Art of India sale, along with  6 bronze sculptures that whisper rustic rhythms in the hands of Sudip Roy, one of the pedagogues and Bengal Master Bikash Bhattacharjee’s favourite students at…

As the new year dawns, we look back in wonder at the ups and downs of our currency  The story goes that a minister, extolling the achievements of his govt, said that when it assumed office the rupee had been at a low of a mere ₹70 to US dollar and now – lo and behold!…

Hello and welcome to the 76th edition of the Weekly Vine. In this edition, say goodbye to Dilbert creator Scott Adams, explain the October 7 Butterfly Effect, look at America’s Godi Media problem, and deal with the civilisational misunderstanding plaguing corporate systems. Goodbye Scott Adams: Chronicler of Corporate Capitalism  When my boss got a promotion –…

You have your say; we have our way – that’s the message DMK has sent its allies. Against the backdrop of several Congress leaders speaking of power-sharing – and the leadership being strategically ambiguous – DMK deputy general secretary and rural administration minister I Periyasamy on Sunday told reporters in Dindigul, “Congress has the right…

India’s rooftop solar story is often told as a moral victory. Clean energy. Energy independence. Citizen participation in the green transition. The narrative is comforting, aspirational, and politically convenient. But it is also incomplete. Rooftop solar is being rolled out across Indian cities with remarkable enthusiasm and surprisingly little interrogation of its long-term urban, economic,…

The forces reshaping Indian cinema are the same ones reshaping consumer markets everywhere. India is simply where the patterns appear first. **Speed without listening** India’s startup ecosystem has learned to move fast. What it is still learning—often through costly missteps—is how to listen. This pattern is visible well beyond startups. Bollywood, one of the world’s…

Man’s flair for personifying the inanimate is as old as man himself. But when and what is it that we personify? Certainly not everything under the sun – that for sure won’t make sense. Rather, it is those things which, metaphorically as they may, can be thought to demonstrate one or more human-like attributes that…

The abduction of Venezuela’s elected president was not an aberration but the culmination of sanctions, lawfare, and militarised capitalism. What happened in Caracas reveals how U.S. imperial power now governs through courts, markets, and force—while hollowing out democracy at home and abroad. At 2:00 a.m. on January 3, 2026, the global order crossed a line…

From the earliest days of life, children are tuned into the emotional climate around them. Long before they develop language, logic, or conscious self-awareness, they are sensing. They feel the pace of the room, the tone of voices, the pauses between words, the unspoken tension in adult bodies. Their nervous systems are exquisitely sensitive, designed…