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What are the most exciting advances in medicine on the horizon, the ones that could prevent or treat our biggest killers like cancer, heart disease, neurodegenerative disease, and metabolic disease? New studies appear every day, but a few stand out. In today’s post (#75), I cover four that are still early but scientifically plausible, and…

India is building cities at speed—but planning them in isolation. That mismatch is quietly becoming one of the biggest constraints on the country’s growth story. For decades, urban policy has treated cities as standalone units—each with its own master plan, infrastructure pipeline, and governance structure. But the economy has moved on, unmindful of city boundaries,…

The inevitable has happened. For months, critics derided him as Two Tier Starmer. Unable to manage or deflect his plunging popularity and facing a revolt from within his party, the Prime Minister of United Kingdom, Keir Starmer, has finally resigned. In 2024, his Labour Party stormed to power with a massive two thirds majority in…

There is a question I keep returning to as someone young in politics: what is power actually for? In April 1950, a forty-eight-year-old minister in independent India’s first Cabinet answered it in the hardest way a person can. He resigned. No scandal had cornered him. No party had pushed him out. He had simply decided…

The meeting between Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump on the sidelines of the G7 Summit in Évian-les-Bains, France, on 17 June 2026 marked the first face-to-face engagement between the two leaders in sixteen months. It came at a sensitive moment for India–US relations, following a period of heightened tension over…

Tears rolling down the cheeks of a young woman holding the iron grills of an examination centre shut in her face.Another girl next to her, wailing uncontrollably.Elsewhere, a desperate mother falling to the feet of a security guard, begging for her daughter to be let past a gate closed moments earlier. Read full story on…

The UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has resigned from the position. He will hold the position until the UK Labour Party elects a new Parliamentary party leader. Among the many stated reasons for his resignation, these are considered as very important: A. Inability to manage the fallout of Brexit on the UK economy andsociety;B. British…

Nostalgia for the OG Telegram “Telegram was blocked for a few days,” I informed Kamala, as I handed her a cup of coffee. I then pulled out a fraying brownish folded piece of paper from my old diary. The original telegram. This particular one said: Baby Boy. Both well.  I smiled, as we both remembered…

 Trump’s intimidation tactic is getting old. Countries are no longer shocked and awed Trump’s bullying ways continue. Just as American and Iranian negotiators were meeting in Bürgenstock, Switzerland, for direct talks to end the US-Iran war, POTUS was posting threats on social media, and telling Fox News that he had told Iranian negotiators that if…