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Gruesome killing of an elephant herd, underlines how myopically & insensitively India is looking at animal corridors On Saturday, a high-speed passenger train struck a wild elephant herd in Sangjurai village, Assam, killing 7, including 4 calves and a pregnant female. This was the fourth such tragedy in the country this year alone. And it…

We live in an age where life moves faster than our ability to feel it. Every morning begins with a scroll, every evening ends with a checklist, and somewhere between the rush to earn, achieve, and update, we have lost touch with something quiet yet essential the art of simple living. For generations, happiness wasn’t…

Winter scarves are one of those underrated wardrobe essentials that quietly do a lot of heavy lifting during the colder months. There’s something about them that feels instantly comforting.  Scarves not only make even the simplest outfit look put together but are practical too. When winter mornings and evenings get chilly quicker than expected, a…

“The rhetoric of consent, when absolutized and criminalised, becomes less a shield for dignity and more a legal instrument that dismantles marriage from within.” This captures the central anxiety in the contemporary push to criminalise marital rape. Advocates of criminalisation, including Dr Shashi Tharoor’s, argument that consent is a fundamental human right that does not…

The moment ‘brain rot’ entered the Oxford dictionary, it went viral. People began using it for everything. Before this, many online users casually claimed they had ADD, a real clinical condition that they threw around without getting any tests done, sometimes even as a flex. Now, all fingers point at brain rot. You forget your…

Between tariffs and trade deals, 2025 has been a tough year for the global economy. As powerful nations barricaded economic borders and protected their own turf, the notion of an ‘open economy’ finds itself under severe attack. In response, all year long, stories and opinions critiquing or championing India’s growth potential have dominated the news…

Between the summers of 1990 and 1994, two moments entered football’s consciousness, and have never left it. It’s been three decades, and yet, Roger Milla’s swivelling hips and Roberto Baggio’s hunched shoulders make it to every FIFA Men’s World Cup promo and trailer — two shades of what a World Cup means. At Pasadena in…

With the Viksit Bharat Shiksha Adhikshan (VBSA) Bill being brought in parliament in the winter session 2025, the discussions are abuzz about the establishment of the Higher Education Commission of India after subsuming the University Grants Commission, All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE), and National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE), while leaving the regulators…

Our minds are racing constantly. When our mind is on a run like that, we are unable to access our sixth sense, which is intuition or the gut feeling that lies beyond reason. You may have observed, all the innovations in history have happened when a person has calmed down or started to relax. For…

Nationalism is once again at the center of global politics. Across the United States, Europe, and India, societies are asking the same question in different ways: Who belongs, and on what basis? Is a nation defined by race and heritage, by merit and achievement, or by shared rights and civic values? The answer matters—not only…