It’s not any comfort. Wildfires hurt Bordeaux just like Chamoli. Humanity’s in this together Visuals of wildfires raging through Europe make for complicated viewing in India. Their firefighting seems to have next-level money, science, and technology. They have well-funded agencies like EFFIS, which tracks everything by satellite, in near real time. The terrain’s also very…
It’s not any comfort. Wildfires hurt Bordeaux just like Chamoli. Humanity’s in this together The huge wildfires burning across Europe can be surprising to people in India. European countries have lots of money, advanced science, and modern technology to fight fires. They even use satellites to spot and track fires almost as they happen. In…
The Commonwealth is a relic, but the Games are a decent sporting barometer The Commonwealth Games are an anachronism. They started in 1930 as the British Empire Games, back when England still mattered in geopolitics. Today, UK is small fry in international relations, but it hasn’t given up the pretensions of a great power. And…
Convenience of online booking is costly The inconveniences Matt Damon faces in returning home from wherever he is stuck – behind enemy lines, space, Troy – are well known. But the “convenience fee” people booking tickets online, pay to watch him do so is no less daunting. This demon charge on almost everything from electricity…
Undergoing surgery is never merely a medical procedure. It is an emotional journey marked by uncertainty, vulnerability, and the hope of returning to normal life. As someone who had already survived Stage III cancer, undergone the removal of twenty-six tumours, and endured months of chemotherapy, I have learned that every new diagnosis carries an emotional weight…
Strap: Both Maharashtra and Karnataka have prohibited sale of junk food inside and near schools. But curbs can only go so far if home sends a different message A child is told at breakfast to avoid junk food, and then watches a parent sip a sugary drink in the car. She hears a teacher warn…
In on the inside joke: Besides getting on the reel bandwagon, politicians are using viral catchphrases like Vaste-guna-Huiya to get Gen Z cred For years, the political and intellectual class assumed that X, formerly Twitter, was where serious politics happened, and that Instagram was a nursery for people who had not yet discovered seriousness….
Collar prejudice: It’s time to give back dignity to those who work with tools, machines and their hands 17. That is the net number of employees added by India’s five largest IT services companies, TCS, Infosys, Wipro, HCLTech and Tech Mahindra, during the first nine months of FY 2025-26. In the same period last year,…
On the way to the hill town of Ranikhet is a river crossing with an old steel bridge. A foundation plate along its edge notes the name of the engineer, and the address of the foundry in Liverpool where it was fabricated in 1927. A century on, the delicate Meccano-like construction still functions admirably, carrying…
It took me a while after I got to the US to realise that I dressed weird. It was less the colours than the specific shades. Pink, yellow, and green were all men’s colours, but my shirts were in hot pink and turmeric yellow, the green of a banana leaf that just unfurled, sharp checks…