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He succeeded in his narrow goal of building a clerical class for colonisers. But education in Indian languages continued to thrive, as did criticism of Brits for betraying Enlightenment values English colonisers’ introduction of English education in India, following the promulgation of Macaulay’s 1835 Minutes, is once again in the eye of a storm. The…

Our national love language is food, our cities discourage walking. So, most of us are portly. But best-selling weight-loss injections can help us only so much. Indians won’t slim down unless they learn discipline Ask anyone who has battled their weight all their life – yours truly included – and you’ll discover the staggering amount…

Swami Tejomayananda In life, it is almost impossible for anyone to remain entirely free from blemish. Criticisms and accusations touch everyone; no one escapes them. Ram and Sita were not spared; they were unfairly blamed and criticised. Yet in the entire Ramayan, there stands one character who remains untouched by fault, beyond all criticism: Hanuman….

Food regulator has to do more to counter alarmist and dangerously false claims by food influencers Food regulator FSSAI has called out the misinformation that eggs can be a cancer risk. It has clarified that… Source link

The government wants to link messaging apps like WhatsApp and Signal very tightly to one SIM card. This is called SIM-binding. The idea is to stop online scams and fraud. That sounds good — but the plan may actually cause more problems than it solves. Here’s why. In India, many people use prepaid SIM cards….

We never stop learning how to take things in our stride  We never stop learning how to walk the walk. The ability to stand upright on their two feet in order to walk gave our ancestors an evolutionary advantage. Almost all other species, barring birds and marsupials, are quadrupeds.  Walking on two legs instead of…

India’s energy transition has entered a decisive phase. With Union Science Minister Jitendra Singh announcing targets of 22 GW of nuclear power by 2032, 47 GW by 2037, 67 GW by 2042 and 100 GW by 2047—roughly 10 per cent of the national energy mix—the message is clear: nuclear energy is no longer a peripheral…

December—the dark sky is showering a confetti of white wool everywhere, and I’m running to grab my warmest sweaters and furriest mittens.  No sunlight—all the colours are fading into grey. The flow of life is slowly freezing into stillness.  Ugh! The cold. Where is my quilt? I want to hibernate like sleepy a turtle! Zzzzzzzz………

Since the 2000s, Google Search—and later YouTube and Discover—served as the primary discovery and monetization engines for digital publishing. This relationship was symbiotic, if lopsided. Two decades later, the advent of Large Language Models (LLMs) has slowed that “firehose” of traffic, leaving publishers to face a “Google zero” crisis. As traffic wanes, foundation model companies…

The Asian Development Bank’s Water and Sanitation in Indian Cities framework arrives at a critical moment for India’s urban future. Rapid urbanisation, climate stress, and widening inequality are converging to expose a hard truth: India’s water and sanitation challenge is no longer primarily about building infrastructure. It is about how cities are planned, governed, and…