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How celebrities can help to clear our cities of rubbish Indira Gandhi famously remarked that poverty is the biggest pollutant. Can the reverse hold true? Can wealth and fame be effective as anti-pollutants and help in clearing up manmade mess? It might seem so, if the example of singer-songwriter and international icon Taylor Swift’s wedding…

Sitting by my desk in Bangalore and watching how the ongoing student protests in Delhi are shaping-up has made me restless. As a PhD student, I hardly have the means to book impromptu flights to Delhi and participate in what I feel is a strong people’s movement. The struggles and demands of the Cockroach Janta…

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” — George Santayana The land now called Pakistan holds some of the subcontinent’s oldest inheritances — the university-town of Takshashila, the brick avenues of Mohenjo-daro and Harappa, the birthplace of the grammarian Panini, even a small bronze figure whose cocked hip and bangled arm…

In 1971 at Loyola College, Chennai, shortly after the then government’s introduction of the 24th amendment, which restored powers of amendment of the fundamental rights chapter of our Constitution, Palkhivala thundered, “In a democracy, the price which you pay for being a citizen of a democracy is eternal vigilance. If you are not prepared to…

    Even a perfectly secure NEET would still ask one narrow performance to carry the weight of an entire life. In the age of AI, that is becoming harder to defend. When an examination paper leaks, the immediate demand is obvious: find those responsible, compensate the students harmed and conduct the test fairly. That…

The oil market thinks the US and Iran may soon start talking instead of fighting This week began with more bad news for the world’s oil supply. US President Donald Trump promised to strike back after American soldiers were killed in Iranian attacks. At the same time, Yemen’s Houthi rebels said they would block ships…

Tech progress should not come at the cost of creators’ rights A big legal battle in the United States has made history. A judge approved a $1.5 billion settlement in a case against AI company Anthropic. Authors and publishers said the company used copyrighted books to train its AI without permission. It is the first…

The visuals emerging from what began as the NEET protest are deeply disturbing. What appears to be planned violence, attacks on police and security personnel, damage to public property, arson, and anarchy cannot be described as peaceful protest. That makes this a double tragedy for students. The first tragedy was the inexplicable paper leaks that…

The month of July saw a headline in ceramic arts in India with pioneering maestro of Ceramics and stoneware wizard PR Daroz ( Prakash Pandurang Daroz ) being awarded the prestigious Prof. MS Nanjunda Rao National Award. This rare honour was presented to him by the Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath in Bangalore in recognition of his…

By GS Tripathi Anxiety is an integral part of human experience. While it may not seem particularly harmful at first, repeated anxiety can lead to serious complications. It weakens mental fortitude. Its proper management can save us from disastrous situations. The power of an unperturbed mind is certainly greater. If the mind is disturbed to…