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“Whoever is not grateful for blessings is in grave danger of them disappearing. Whoever is grateful for them ties them up with their own tether,” said Hazrat Ibn Ata’illah Iskandari (1259-1310), a renowned Egyptian Sufi and the third great spiritual master of the Shadhili Sufi order. His most famous work, Kitab al-Hikam (The Book of Wisdoms), a classic…

India’s ambition to build a modern, self-reliant navy is unquestionable. Yet its procurement processes continue to rely on episodic, stop-start orders that break industrial momentum, inflate costs, delay deliveries, and freeze innovation. Nothing illustrates this more sharply than Project 75(I), where India is negotiating for 2020-era submarine technology that—if contracts are signed soon—will only enter…

Hello and welcome to the 71st edition of the Weekly Vine. In this week’s edition, we run the rule over propaganda allegations against Dhurandhar, look at a meta-report on how short-form videos are reshaping our brains, discuss America’s new foreign policy which calls Europe irrelevant, and point out why we are all now victims of…

Let’s start with some good news: cancer death rates in the United States are falling. Since 1991, the age-adjusted cancer mortality rate has declined by about 34 per cent (reference). This can be credited to many factors, including fewer people smoking, earlier detection, and better treatments. That translates into millions of lives saved. However, cancer remains the 2nd…

The body of a human being is within a limited space. Outside the human body, the space is infinite (Ananta).  To explore the infinite space outside the body is not easy. So much to explore and to comprehend what is explored in this infinite space is extremely difficult. The capacity of our senses can’t hold…

Geometry, for most of us, ended the day we closed our Class 10 maths textbook and vowed never to think about isosceles triangles again. It was a dignified subject once. It helped build pyramids, chart seas, and lend a certain gravitas to architectural drawings. Then came the influencers! Consider this the spiritual sequel to last…

Delhi & Gurgaon playing a bad air match Gurgaon started off as a suburb of Delhi in early 1980s. People who couldn’t afford property prices in Delhi plonked themselves in more affordable Gurgaon.  However, over the years, things changed. While Delhi remained largely a city of entrenched babudom, Gurgaon became a glitzy, highrise corporate hub,…

Vladimir Putin’s two-day visit to New Delhi on December 4–5, 2025 was much more than a ceremonial handshake moment. It was a deliberate geopolitical signal — a reminder that India will not be strong-armed into abandoning long-standing partnerships merely because the strategic climate has changed. The warmth between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Putin,…

There’s a lot of criticism being directed DGCA’s way, for giving IndiGo extra room to comply with its new Flight Duty Time Limitation requirement. It was faced, of course, with Hobson’s choice, given the horrible chaos across Indian airports. But the question remains, did IndiGo cause passengers innumerable miseries, deliberately? The suspicion is that, unlike…

A reader recently asked: “I’m South Asian and people say I’m ‘skinny fat.’ What is that—and how can I prevent it?” Many Asian patients who look “healthy” on the outside still develop type 2 diabetes and heart disease far more than expected. In medical school, we’re taught that obesity drives diabetes. Yet some of the sickest…