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By Stuti Malhotra A recent accidental drowning of an engineer in Noida shook many people: a young man, full of promise and plans, lost his life suddenly and unexpectedly. Such news arrests our routine thinking. It disrupts the illusion that life is predictable and that tomorrow is guaranteed. In a moment, a person who was…

Conformity, religiosity (minus god), tribalism Using his fortune of $200bn (2024 figures) Musk could build 1,000 Great Pyramids, writes Harvey Whitehouse in Inheritance: The Evolutionary Origins of the Modern World . Whitehouse is only prodding readers to question if ancient societies were more unequal than the modern world. The belief that democracy closed the gap between rich &…

Regional chicken dishes add a distinct layer of uniqueness to Indian cuisine by reflecting the geography, climate, and cultural rhythms of the places they come from. Each region cooks chicken through its own lens shaped by local produce, cooking fats, spice preferences, and even seasonal needs. Coastal areas often favour lighter gravies with aromatic leaves…

Throughout Islamic history, the spiritual pilgrimage to Mecca has been the cherished and lifelong goal for Muslims. The journey to Mecca has been called “the height of spiritual fulfilment, and the holy city’s transcendental geography a constant source for contemplation.” Khwaja Gharib Nawaz (1143–1236), the Sufi mystic whose teachings of love, compassion, and inclusivity transcended…

To empower a girl is to empower humanity January 24, India’s National Girl Child Day, is both celebratory and sobering. This day honors the potential, resilience, and promise of millions of girls across the country. Despite decades of progress, being born a girl in India can still lead to a life with limited choices, opportunities,…

I meet them in coaching rooms all the time. People who do not fall apart. They optimise. They arrive on time, reply fast, remember everything, and handle crises with the calm of an air-traffic controller. Their lives look “sorted”. Their LinkedIn is clean. Their calendar is colour-coded. Their family calls them dependable. Their team calls…

Bangladesh cricketers victims of its cricket administration’s politics It’s uglier than the worst sledging – and now feuding Bangladesh Cricket Board wants to take ICC to a tribunal. Per reports, BCB has written to ICC asking its independent Dispute Resolution Committee to decide on its appeal to shift Bangladesh’s T20 World Cup matches from India…

Nvidia boss’s vision of future better than Tesla chief’s Who’s right, Nvidia chief Jensen Huang, or Elon Musk? At Davos on Wednesday, Huang assured “plumbers, electricians, and construction and steelworkers,” their jobs are safe. Reason: you can take all the AI in the world, and still struggle to thread a needle with it. A day…

For long, women have relied on improvised survival tactics in public transport, a safety pin jab to ward off wandering hands, or the quiet decision to turn away in silent disgust as a co-passenger masturbates nearby. These were not isolated shocks but part of everyday reality. In recent years, mobile phones became another tool: Women…

For 85-year-old theatre practitioner Maya Tangeberg, art is not a luxury but a human necessity. Born in Switzerland and trained in mime and physical theatre under Jacques Lecoq in Paris, later studying direction in Stockholm, she has worked across cultures and performance traditions for decades. Now based in Finland, she shares a long association with…