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By Anup Taneja India is globally revered as a deeply spiritual civilisation. From the historic rise of the Ram Mandir to the ancient, bustling halls of Tirupati Balaji, faith is woven into the very fabric of daily life. Yet, astriking paradox exists alongside this profound religiosity; systemic corruption remains a pervasive issue. Even high-profile religious…

Think Partition, and our minds spontaneously go to those who came in from West Pakistan. It is as if the Bengal exodus is a minor footnote to the epic tragedy of Punjab refugees. Truth is that the numbers fleeing from East and West Pakistan were roughly the same. Even corpse-laden trains feature in Partition narratives…

World Cup host has made fans fall in love with America As we arrive at the business end of the Fifa World Cup, there’s one group of people who are eating humble pie – those who believed that the tournament in US would be a disaster. The naysayers pointed to US’s lack of football culture,…

UP guv has bad advice for women We live in an age of algorithms, and algorithms are built on the cold logic of conditional statements, like if/then. For example, if it’s raining in Mumbai, then don’t go out – you could fall into an open manhole. UP governor Anandiben Patel has her own little algorithm…

Dr Thara KG Speaks On The Kalladi Landslip And Why Kerala Remains Unprepared For The Disasters It Keeps Facing Dr Thara K G is a geologist and disaster management expert with over three decades of experience in disaster risk reduction, climate resilience and environmental planning. She was a member of the first Kerala State Disaster…

In an age of fraud and frayed social networks, an expanding ecosystem of investigators, algorithms, lawyers and therapists is stepping in to tick mark if a match is ‘suitable’ Once upon a time, arranging marriages was the work of families, friends and communities. But Ketan Agarwal’s recent death in Pune and Twisha Sharma’s in Bhopal,…

Speed, cost, quality and efficiency of tokens are driving the whole narrative recently. We have been asking the wrong question. In the mad rush, we have started pivoting to harnessing and prioritising more energy, water, land and chip economy for AI than humans. For the last two years, the corporate world has been obsessed with…

In Odisha’s High Court, judges are clearing more cases than are being filed. Yet the backlog refuses to shrink. In 2024, the court disposed of more than 90,000 cases, a clearance rate of 101 per cent. That means its judges were working faster than new filings were coming in. And yet, the backlog barely moved….

Have you ever noticed that milk possesses a personality disorder? Leave it alone on the stove while you answer the doorbell or turn around to just water that one money plant near the kitchen window, and it erupts from the saucepan like a volcano that has just discovered it has been left out of the…

This week’s edition is about what happens when Indian ideas and people travel. Ancient medicine has become one of America’s hottest wellness trends, though not always to India’s benefit. An Indian-origin astronaut is preparing for an eight-month mission in space. A young singer from Arizona is winning over audiences in Kerala.  Let’s go. THE BIG…