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China has many more cars and factories than India, but its air is cleaner. This shows that India’s dirty air problem can be fixed. The World Health Organization (WHO) says that very tiny dust particles in the air, called PM2.5, should not be more than 5 units in one cubic metre of air. These particles…

BMC polls? High time, but who has Mumbai on their mind? At last, elections on Jan 15 to BMC, India’s richest municipal corporation, where terms of corporators expired three years ago in 2022. This’ll be the third of the three-phase local body elections underway in Maharashtra after SC directed state poll commission to conclude the…

By Jaya Row Generations of Indians mastered the inner world. Success and happiness came as byproducts. When we lost this inner enrichment, external bankruptcy followed. Today, we are like Gulliver – asleep to our real worth. Wake up to the powerhouse of knowledge you are heir to. Gita, written 5000 years ago, addresses Arjuns of…

PM Modi’s three-nation tour to Jordan, Ethiopia and Oman, which began yesterday, comes amid geopolitical churn in West Asia, marked by a fragile ceasefire in Gaza, the fall of the Assad regime in Syria, and the crystallisation of a new Saudi-Pakistan-US alignment, offering a window into India’s evolving role as a strategically autonomous middle power….

Amid the chatter about artificial intelligence mania, people have begun to joke about “a bubble in bubble talk”. Google searches for AI and the b-word have surged and the mood in the markets feels exuberant, but beyond these soft indicators there is no standard measure of a bubble. My test focuses on four Os –…

Mumbai is finally having an election for the BMC (Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation) on January 15. The BMC runs the city and has a lot of money to fix roads, clean drains, manage schools and hospitals. Elections were supposed to happen three years ago, but they were delayed. These elections matter because Mumbai is in bad…

Cash was a good accountant, QR code is a terrible one Until recently, I was that person – the one still dispensing crumpled notes at cafes while everyone else bent the knee before the holy QR code. Friends interrogated my anachronism. Was I paranoid about digital trails? Cosplaying a minor movie villain from the 1990s?  The…

Football is a culture, collectively created by a public that offers its homage to the genius of its uniquely gifted stars. Football clubs are places of community worship at the altar of the game. There is spiritual kinship and ferocious loyalty, rituals and superstitions that link each football fan with every other football fan, be…

How negative emotions linger in the environment When someone feels sad or angry or negative, they create similar vibrations around them. Those vibrations stick to the environment. If you walk into that place, even after they have left, for no reason, you start feeling those similar emotions. You were all right a few minutes ago,…

Let’s get one point clear at the very outset: There’s just no room to whitewash the bedlam at Salt Lake Stadium over Argentine great Lionel Messi’s visit as the concomitant of the city’s enduring love and “passion” for the ‘beautiful game’. There can be no “love” and nothing “passionate” about a grotesque display of anarchy – albeit in a…