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The president has recently made transfers/appointments of governors of some states (West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, etc.). In West Bengal, CV Ananda Bose resigned, citing personal reasons, and RN Ravi (the then governor of Tamil Nadu) was appointed in his place. West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee said she was shocked by this change and…

Paltrow, at the Oscars, showed, in her silhouette, what it takes to hold it together Who won the Oscars is for movie nerds. For the rest, Academy Awards is a spectacle. Sheer fashion theatre – where stars flaunt brand identity, and nominees conceal nerves, in all manner of dress. For Hollywood, there can be nothing…

One of the worrisome and rather tasteless human behaviours is to devalue the human being as having the least value in all human enterprise and activity. The few examples below will serve to drive home this point: Business: Some of the most studied ratios in financial statements are comparative ratios of employee costs to total…

Much to its indignant distaste, India is willy-nilly getting a taste, literally, of the conflict raging in Iran and neighbouring countries.  Iran’s blocking of Strait of Hormuz, which overnight has become an international buzzword, and through which a great deal of oil and other vital supplies pass, has meant that the West Asian conflict has…

The Chaitra Navratri heralding the new year on Gudi Padwa around the vernal equinox is one of the most auspicious time of the year . Whatever you seek, prosperity, success, fame, health or spiritual advancement, this is the time you need to put in the right effort.   One simple way to find what is…

By Narayani Ganesh Post their military service hiatus, the K-pop boy band, BTS, after ‘disappearing’ from public gaze for three years, are making a comeback with their new album, titled Arirang , to be released on March 20. Fans are waiting with bated breath for their world tour’s kick-off concert, to be held in South…

On March 13, 2026, Isro announced that the atomic clock aboard IRNSS-1F had stopped working, with the satellite completing “its 10-year mission life”. While the phrasing was restrained, the impact is worrying. India’s homegrown satellite navigation system, born in response to the hard lessons of the 1999 Kargil War, is now under severe strain. Since…

Trump’s second term starkly illustrates a rapidly intensifying imbalance, between consent and force in America’s hegemonic strategy. Historically, US favoured waging a patient struggle for hearts and minds, through soft power. Trump’s escalating military campaigns, however, exemplify coercion without restraint. But how far can Trump push such a coercive strategy, and what restraints, if any,…

Being blind to the limits of power, seems to come with the territory of having a lot of it. Look at geopolitics   As it went with tariffs, so it’s going with Iran war: Trump’s ‘my way or the highway’ posture, reduced to a bad joke. On the war front, not only have developments in Iran…

Fifty-five years ago, Pakistan launched “Operation Searchlight”- a brutal crackdown in East Pakistan to suppress political dissent. The targets included students, intellectuals, political activists, and Hindu minorities. Widespread killings, sexual violence, and destruction followed. This created one of the worst humanitarian crises of the 20th Century. Bangladesh’s official figure places 3 million deaths in 1971,…