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Building community networks of caregiving can help us move away from artificial, privatised care. The house is in chaos. Lata, caregiver to 95-year-old Vinata, has chosen not to return. She is the fourth caregiver to leave in the last two months. Lata is 60 years old and has a daughter who is usually at work….

There is a particular kind of woman I meet often in coaching rooms. She is competent, warm, high-performing, and deeply tired. She speaks with care, edits herself mid-sentence, and apologises when she has done nothing wrong. She is the glue in her family, the stabiliser in her workplace, the one who “handles things”. People call…

When monsoon comes round this year, Mumbai should be better geared for it. Monorails shouldn’t stall on tracks, metro stations shouldn’t get flooded, bridges shouldn’t get cut off…Now that the city has elected its municipal representatives, after a delay of four years, there should be some accountability. It’s unfortunate that India’s richest civic body, with…

The US National Security strategy 2026: Talks of Western hemisphere but is silent on Eastern hemisphere. The renewed assertion of American primacy in the Western Hemisphere—evident in strong operational signaling toward Venezuela and renewed strategic interest in Greenland—marks a decisive return to sphere-of-influence geopolitics. Long considered a relic of the 19th century, the Monroe Doctrine…

Mission-mode programmes are celebrated for delivering immediate, tangible outputs at scale. But lasting social change depends on whether institutions, capacities, and accountability survive beyond the mission. Mission-mode programmes are government initiatives designed to achieve specific, high-priority outcomes within a defined timeframe, supported by focused resources, streamlined processes, and close monitoring. Originally conceived for long-term national goals,…

As farmers return to the streets on January 16, with bigger mobilisations planned for February 12 and February 16, it’s clear this is no routine agitation. It is a warning that rural India is running out of patience with policies it feels were written without it. India has seen enough farmer agitations in the last…

Discussions are abuzz about the recent report of a committee calling for the capping of coaching hours for school students, along with suggestions such as redesigning school curricula to mirror post-school competitive examinations, giving greater weightage to board examination marks in admissions to higher education institutions, and more. The issues flagged herein must be viewed…

Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert, died on January 13, 2026. It feels strangely fitting that the news arrived without spectacle, because Adams spent a lifetime observing how the most consequential things in organisations rarely happen with drama. They don’t explode. They linger. They continue. They refuse to end. There is a sentence economists repeat…

“At around 3 am, inside a packed nightclub in North Goa, the music cut out. Smoke had begun to spread across the ceiling. The emergency lighting did not switch on. The exits did not open. People ran, then stumbled, then collapsed. By the time the fire was brought under control, 25 people were dead. They…

Today’s edition looks at the personal chemistry anchoring India–US ties, an Indian-origin doctor caught in America’s culture wars, and the passing of a cartoonist whose work quietly carried an IIT reference into global pop culture. Let’s go.  THE BIG STORY Trump–Modi friendship is real, says US envoy Sergio Gor, the US ambassador to India, has…