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Zoos promise animals good care in exchange for captivity. But what if what they dish out is torture?  Our relationship with animals is not simple. Long ago, a writer named Montaigne said that animals may think humans are strange or cruel, just like we sometimes think about them. Some jackals that escaped from the Delhi…

By Ullhas Pagey Eric Berne, a Canadian psychiatrist, unveiled a sacred triad of ego states: Parent, Adult, and Child as portals to our scripted destinies. In the esoteric extensions of Transactional Analysis – which Berne created – these ego states crystallise into three archetypal concepts of life: the Taught, Felt, and Thought. This triune progression…

Amid all the flak aviation regulator DGCA has drawn for its handling of last month’s IndiGo crisis, the role of another regulator – Competition Commission of India – has gone relatively unnoticed.CCI was set up to promote and sustain competition in markets, and is tasked with curbing anti-competitive practices across sectors. It is CCI’s job…

In India, time is a nebulous concept that is elastic and can bend like monsoon rubber, stretched endlessly without a whisper of a protest. Yet, here we are, strangely stuck in a national debate over grocery deliveries in 10 minutes. The Union labour minister has quietly asked quick commerce companies to move away from the…

Lessons for the philistine neta Opening the Art of India exhibition in New Delhi last Friday, lawyer-MP Abhishek Manu Singhvi confessed that the more he examined his credentials for this task, ‘the more unqualified and without locus I found myself’. He then covered up his inadequacy with the fig leaf that ‘perhaps my outsider status…

Phones to cars, software is the key product differentiator now. India should focus on taking the lead in this space It’s 15 years since venture capitalist Marc Andreessen said, “software is eating the world”, and he couldn’t have been more right. We have an app for everything now – multiple apps actually. So, in a…

Zoos promise animals good care in exchange for captivity. But what if what they dish out is torture?  Our relationship with animals is complicated. We understand them no more than they us, and they may think we are beasts just as we think of them, pointed out Montaigne all the way back in the 16th…

The widening of the Asharodi–Jhajhra road near Dehradun has brought into sharp focus a larger and more pressing question confronting Uttarakhand today: how should development proceed in an ecologically fragile Himalayan foothill region? On January 9 this year, the Uttarakhand high court, while deciding WPPIL No. 37 of 2025—a matter in which this writer has…

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…