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Chethan Kumar As a young democracy grows out of adolescence, its rolling out reels and reels of tales. If the first post office or a telephone connection paints one colour, the Stamp of a stock market scam or the ‘Jewel Thieves’ scandal paint yet another colour. If failure of a sounding rocket was a stepping…

History remembers many hunger strikes. But it does not remember them equally. Once Sonam Wangchuk was moved to hospital by police, following growing concern over his deteriorating health, the immediate debate centred on familiar political questions. Were his demands justified? Did govt respond appropriately? A more enduring question lies beneath these: why did one hunger…

By Jug Suraiya We see a man, nose stuck up with a sense of self-importance, walking down a street. He steps on a banana skin and falls. The sight makes us laugh. Why? Why is slapstick, the most basic form of comedy, funny? Do we laugh at it because it is, literally and metaphorically, a…

What the World Cup teaches us about success The FIFA World Cup is much more than a football tournament. It brings together people from all over the world and shows what teamwork, talent and fair play can achieve. It is the biggest sporting event on Earth because it follows five simple ideas that can help…

How India collectively survived the football Odyssey The final whistle has blown. A new world champion has been crowned. Across the United States, Canada and Mexico, stadium lights are slowly dimming. Across India, however, millions… Source link

Lessons for the world, including countries & corporations, from football’s greatest show The World Cup, unsurprisingly, has been a month of joyous football mania. It once again showed the power of football to unite people. That the World Cup remains the most successful sporting event is because it follows five golden mantras that are key…

Medical education needs fixing, not just a better entrance exam The NEET retest, taken by around 20 lakh students, went smoothly this time. It also had a higher qualifying score. But one successful exam cannot hide the bigger problems in medical education. NEET scams may grab headlines, but the real troubles go much deeper. Coaching…

India has quietly delivered one of the world’s most remarkable public infrastructure transformations. In little over a decade, millions of households have gained access to improved sanitation, while rural tap-water coverage has expanded at an unprecedented pace. What was once viewed as an aspirational development agenda has become a defining national achievement. This progress is…

We were searching for waterfalls, cliff diving, and an unforgettable weekend getaway close to Mumbai when our friends Ameya and Arundhati introduced us to Jawhar. They spoke enthusiastically about a perennial waterfall with several natural cliff-diving points of varying heights. Their description was irresistible, and before long, we were on our way to this charming…

Welcome back to another edition of My Take 5, your weekly wrap of international news. This week we are covering the slow crumbling of the US-Iran ceasefire, the reimposition of US naval blockade on Iran, protests in Ukraine over firing of the defence minister, China’s missile test in the South Pacific, and US delisting Syria…