He’ll make America gasp again

No one can deny Trump’s first year of his second coming was a shocker. Who would have thought he could demolish, destroy and dismantle everything at warp speed? Expect Project Break-(It)-Down to continue alongside Project BreakUp – with old friends. Trump will remain a street-fighting man without filters, and, interventions to implant any filter will…

Read More

Meri/Teri Chrissmas

O come all ye carols, freshened and updated,O come ye, O co-ome ye, to E-rra-tica! O Come along and sing them.Out of tune or harmonised O sing them. Or hum-um them, But don’t ser-mon-ise. Hark, the estate agent singsPromising such wondrous things.Grecian name and addons pl-ush Commode with Italian flush. Why not buy two flats…

Read More

Kamalamma and the battle for the seat

What to tell you! The other day we are visiting furniture shop, and we are seeing one big fat chair in living room section and I am asking salesman, what is that anna and he is saying oh maydam, it is recliner chair, very comfortable and perfect for relaxing. The mister is slowly sitting in…

Read More

Data centres: An emerging environmental menace

India’s cloud is not only virtual — it is increasingly physical, resource-intensive and expanding at an extraordinary pace. As digital adoption deepens, artificial intelligence scales, and businesses shift relentlessly to cloud-based operations, the country is experiencing a wave of hyperscale and colocation data-centre construction unlike anything seen before. These facilities have quietly become the invisible…

Read More

MAGA’s Carthage moment, The Odyssey for Beginners, and Dhurandhar’s Qawwali Reboot

Hello and welcome to another edition of the Weekly Vine. This week, we take a look at MAGA’s Carthage moment, explain The Odyssey for beginners, decode the 9/11 for sigma males, and finally examine how Dhurandhar reinvented a classic qawwali. MAGA’s Carthage moment Sallust, Julius Caesar’s protégé, argued in Bellum Catilinae that the downfall of the Roman Empire was inevitable after…

Read More

Ice for the empire: Why Washington wants Greenland

Trump’s renewed bid to seize Greenland is not a diplomatic oddity but a blunt declaration of imperial intent. Beneath the language of “security” lies a project of Arctic militarization, climate-driven resource capture, and the denial of Indigenous self-determination. Greenland reveals how empire speaks when it feels entitled. Empire without apology When Donald Trump says of…

Read More

What to do now (Part 4)

We are in a direction wherein things are to be replaced by robots and systems like Artificial Intelligence. We think, what we are wasting time in, will be done by the system, that can assimilate information better. The system can process all available information in quick time, producing better results and conclusions. Results are better…

Read More

Atithi Devo Bhava?

Humiliating an African national for not knowing Hindi, exposes Indians to similar abuse abroad  During the Mughal era, the British era, and now the Indian era, Delhi has been blessedly spared ‘sons of the soil’ chauvinism. It’s always been identified as a city of migrants, administration, and trade. Persian, Urdu, Hindi, Punjabi, English…have all functioned…

Read More