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WC 2026 shows why football, with joy and sorrow, remains a global pulse  Football is life. No other global game captures the heartbreaks, the joys, the tears, the desperation, the drama, the sorrow, and the pure exhilaration like the beautiful game. Take Iran. People are already calling them the unluckiest team in football. Just before…

The extraordinary is becoming the everyday ordinary When Russia invaded Ukraine and Ukraine fought back, the headline-making word was War. When US and Israel attacked Iran in a campaign that was supposed to be wrapped up in a couple of weeks, War made the headlines again.  After over four years of Russia-Ukraine hostilities continuing unabated,…

Discussions on the ‘Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding between the United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran’ seem to ignore or downplay the treacherous role Pakistan has played in the peace talks. So treacherous that it helped transform Iran’s military rout into its strategic victory. Let’s begin with the beginning. Months before US…

Hills and mountains are being cut down in Uttarakhand to make space for taller buildings, but are the hills really meant for malls and high-rise apartment buildings? Have we not learnt anything from the disaster at Joshimath, where the whole city sank? The cause of it was unchecked development—increased construction, including the Helang bypass and hydroelectric projects,…

A few weeks ago, I sat across from a young woman in a Bandra café who had three hundred thousand followers and not a single person she could ring at 11 pm. She produced reels about self-love every Tuesday and wept quietly between sips of cold coffee. The loudest voices online, I have come to…

In the politics of Indian democracy, the past no longer remains a distant memory; it actively battles within the political Kurukshetra of the present. Heroes, kings, commanders, and icons from history keep jumping out of the pages of the past to fight contemporary political battles. Through constant invention, reinvention, and remixing of historical narratives and…

The exodus of millions of migrant workers from India’s cities during the Covid-19 lockdown may have shocked the world. But today, it has become apparent that exit is the default strategy for India’s labour migrants to withstand all kinds of shocks — slum evictions, sectarian violence, electoral events, and, most recently, rising fuel prices. While…

Is failing easy?Even a toddler cries when she drops her toy she was happily playing with! Think about the grown ups who invest their efforts, time, money and emotions to bring their dreams to life! And instead of basking in the glory of success, they end up stumbling down the ladder. All hopes shattered into…

After a long time, the youth has nucleated a nationwide discourse emanating from social media trails, that is centered around their shared concerns about examination, education, and employment systems in the country. The involvement of primary stakeholders in some nitty-gritty of the processes that shape them for surviving and thriving, is alltime need to strengthen…

It is 10.30 pm, and the house is finally quiet. You are slumped on the couch, entirely depleted by the relentless, low-grade friction of the day. Suddenly, a minor crisis strikes: you realize there is no milk for tomorrow morning’s tea, or perhaps you just desperately need a specific brand of chocolate to survive the…