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By Aditya Mukherjee When Friedrich Nietzsche declared that ‘God is dead’, he was announcing the onset of a profound civilisational rupture. Nietzsche was not celebrating the disappearance of God; he was warning that modern humanity, intoxicated by reason, science, and power, had been stripped of the moral and spiritual underpinnings that once anchored it. In…

If it endorses a view that stray dogs should be put in shelters – implicitly treating the Animal Birth Control (ABC) programme as a failure and sidelining Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act – Supreme Court will push a solution that is anthropocentric, scientifically unsound, fiscally reckless, and epidemiologically counterproductive. Read full story on TOI+…

The American public doesn’t mind a little war every now and then. As US economic, technological and cultural dominance fades, a show of military power – especially against a much weaker enemy – provides the public with something they can be proud of. Little wars are thought to be a good way for an embattled…

Aspiring to build India’s own Shinkansens? That needs governance to speed up first  Why does any country want to follow in Japan’s bullet train tracks? Because speedier movement of people and goods means higher productivity. But Shinkansen is also the No. 1 reason tourists want to visit Japan, and this is more poetry than prose….

Revising the ground rules of marriage I reached into Kamala’s handbag and fished out the money I needed to pay Blinkit bhaiya. Kamala was not pleased at my incursion. “You can’t just reach into someone else’s property and casually take something out. There is a method in the madness,” she announced, laying down the ground…

History may not remember Donroe Doctrine, but Trump’s reserved a passing mention with his Venezuela grab For now, like it or not, Trump owns Venezuela. Some may question the ethics and legality of the grab, but that doesn’t diminish the military brilliance of ‘Op Absolute Resolve’. Its planning and execution were flawless. Trump effectively did…

What is this about? This piece talks about a bold military move by US President Donald Trump involving Venezuela. The writer believes this action will be remembered in history, even if the name given to… Source link

As the world saw the shocking image of President Nicolás Maduro handcuffed, forced to march in humiliating fashion with nothing but a water bottle in hand, it became painfully clear: Donald Trump’s assurances that he would “never start a war” were, at best, theatrical fiction. The spectacle was more than political theater—it was a vivid…

India’s Mission for Cotton Productivity is a timely acknowledgement that cotton is central to farm incomes and the textile value chain, but it will deliver only if India treats research and innovation as the mission’s first priority – not a supporting activity. The cotton economy is now constrained less by farmer effort and more by…

For most of the modern internet’s life, discovery followed a familiar ritual. You typed a query, scanned  a page of links, clicked a few results, and slowly formed an opinion. The power lay with the user and  with whoever managed to rank highest on a search engine.  That ritual is quietly ending.  Today, people don’t…