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Why’s U’khand govt, confronted with so many challenges, spending time on bad ideas that’re also unconstitutional? Uttarakhand seems to be on fire even before forest-fire season’s begun. Protests over a 2022 murder have erupted again in multiple cities. Unease remains over the racist attack that killed Tripura student Anjel Chakma in Dehradun – a charming…

At Kochi Muziris Biennale’s Anand Warehouse, Mattancherry in Kerala, Reena Lath of Akar Prakar Gallery, unveils Jayashree Chakravorty’s moorings of momentous journeys and the fragility of the earth. Monumental and contemplative is Shelter for the Time Being, an enchanting open ended organic form of overlapping, bustling, rough-hewn fragments, hanging loosely. Mesmerising, multiple forms and images…

Expecting parametric solutions to mitigate climate risks is like doodling in the dark rather than connecting meaningful dots. Dots is about proactively looking for root causes; visualising scenarios and scale of the unfolding climate threats; reviving a risk management culture; and a lot more. Protection gap Take, for instance, the state of Tamil Nadu. It…

Both US and China could turn our neighbouring state into real estate  Donald Trump’s Chief of Staff greets her boss.  CoS: Boss, I’ve got good news and gooder news.  Trump: Gee, that’s great. What’s the good news?  CoS: The good news is that our buying of Greenland is a done deal, and we’re all set to make it the 51st…

Dear reader, welcome to the 75th edition of the Vine. Thank you for sticking with us through thick and thin. All 253,874 of you. Seventy-five is a special number. It’s the number of balls it took Sachin Tendulkar to post 98 runs and demolish the Pakistani bowling attack in the 2003 World Cup. This was…

Trump’s geopolitics: His fans, mostly from the broad base of US social pyramid, love raw assertion of power Wince when Trump says, “It was important to make me happy”, but don’t express shock. Modesty never was his strong suit – recall how he described himself as a “very stable genius” eight Januaries ago. Among Macron,…

A few days ago, I was asked a simple question: Why do we need a Guru? Like most sincere questions, the answer did not emerge immediately. Before responding, I felt a subtle inner shift. My mind instinctively wanted to assert certainty, but a quieter thought reminded me to stay humble. That moment of awareness held…

In ultra-conservative bastions around the world, and socio-political contexts including some policy circles where the word “feminist” carries very negative stereotypes, the answer to such a question is already predetermined. Where the matter concerns foreign policy, many critics believe that only a realist framework advances national interest. Yet feminist foreign policies were formally adopted in…

By Partha Sinha Entropy fascinates because it announces itself. It spreads, decays and disperses. It makes noise. Like Kali, it is dramatic, uncompromising and impossible to ignore. Earlier, i wrote about Kali and entropy – how destruction, when honest, is not evil but necessary. Kali does not pretend. Entropy does not apologise. Both tell us…

India’s digital payments story is one of the few that can be called a global success. Among other achievements, we have constructed a real-time, low-cost payments system that works with other systems and has become a model for the rest of the globe. Artificial intelligence (AI) will be a key part of the next phase…