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Parts of speech are dumbfounded  A visitor tells a boy who answers the door that he’s come to meet his mother, and gets the sullen reply, ‘She was in, she is  out!’ The aghast man says, ‘Young man, where’s your grammar?!’ To which the lad points upstairs and says, ‘She’s takin’ a nap.’ This old…

We work, we have fun late into night, work again…and stress out our bodies. We aren’t infinitely adaptable  On weekdays, you wake up to a shrill alarm. On weekends, you sleep in late. This is… Source link

Commission should have empathy for those incorrectly excluded from voter rolls in Bengal & other states Almost 8% of Bengal’s voter roll of Jan 2025 has been excluded in the new draft rolls post-SIR. Lists uploaded include those dead, duplicate, permanently shifted, absent and/or ‘uncollectable’. Two reasons for the removal of over 58L such names…

Rahu is inclined to enlighten with the sheer playfulness of senses. Ketu necessitates abstinence and control over the senses. Astrologically, for Rahu to enlighten, it has to be powerful, but Ketu needs to be feeble. Rahu takes the path where senses no longer make any sense. Ketu makes sense meaningless. For Rahu, there are no…

For the first time in many decades, the world’s major economies are no longer moving in even approximate synchrony. Economic gravity itself appears fractured. Inflation grips the United States while deflation shadows China. Europe struggles with anaemic growth while India accelerates with rare momentum. Silicon Valley pours trillions into frontier technologies even as entire societies…

Are Indian police essentially good human beings who sometimes impose fear to contain crime and deter criminal activities, or are they temperamentally aggressive and abusive? In a country where no one follows rules willingly unless the fear of punishment looms, how can a cop remain humane and sensitive to people’s needs and concerns? Alfred Hitchcock,…

As 2025 draws to a close, classrooms around the world stand at a crossroads: advanced artificial intelligence systems are rapidly entering not just the fringes of education, but its core, prompting deep rethinking of the role of human educators. The central, timely question is no longer whether AI will influence teaching — but whether human…

Why Your Conviction is the Secret Fuel Behind Your Purpose! Purpose is crucial because it explains why you are here, what you are pursuing, and the significance of your journey. It serves as a compass to guide you to a purposeful end. However, a compass is only able to indicate direction; it cannot force you…

Hello and welcome to the 72nd edition of the Weekly Vine. This week, we unpack Messi’s messy GOAT tour, decode the IPL auction’s tells, parse Susie Wiles’ unusually candid take on Team Trump, and end with a Dhurandhar meme that has taken the internet by storm. MESSY GOAT TOUR As a Manchester United fan, Lionel…

It was the wedding of a colleague’s daughter, and I had joined her on a mission—Operation Invitation. With time slipping through our fingers, we vowed to keep each stop short so we could cover as many retired colleagues as possible. But visiting former colleagues at their homes is hardly an everyday affair, and nostalgia has…