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As many of you know, I run a free WhatsApp-based health community called The Longevity Circle. We bring together doctors, dietitians, physiotherapists, health experts, and community members who are trying to make sense of the increasingly complex world of health and wellness. Through weekly podcasts, expert Q&A sessions, and daily conversations, we try to answer…

Half a century after India launched the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) programme in 1975, the latest National Family Health Survey (NFHS-6) offers perhaps the clearest evidence yet that the country’s long battle against child malnutrition is beginning to yield measurable results. Yet the same data also reveal a stubborn challenge that could determine whether…

Oxytocin misuse driving black market dairy economy in India Oxytocin, commonly known as the ‘love-hormone’ brings forth visuals of warmth, comfort, and the sacred relationship between a mother and her child. The hormone is naturally released in the brain during childbirth and drives labor by stimulating uterine contractions, triggering the maternal-child bond. The very same…

For millions of young Indians, every competitive examination represents hope—a chance for higher education, a government job, financial security, and social mobility. Yet, over the last five years, that hope has repeatedly been shattered by a growing epidemic of examination paper leaks. What was once an occasional aberration has now become a systemic threat to India’s meritocratic…

The growing presence of generative artificial intelligence within the wider academic ecosystem has acquired momentum at a time when Indian higher education is already undergoing policy restructuring with National Education Policy’s emphasis on multidisciplinary education, flexibility, and student-centred learning. That restructuring is now moving into its regulatory phase with the Viksit Bharat Shiksha Adhishthan Bill…

There was a time when a midlife crisis possessed a certain dignity. A gentleman bought a sports car he could not afford, developed strong opinions about single malts, took up golf with more enthusiasm than talent, and spent long afternoons gazing into the middle distance while claiming to be “thinking things through.” Today he buys…

Quad is a “headline-grabbing idea” like “foam on the sea” that would quickly dissipate. – Wang Yi, China’s foreign minister, March 2018 But, if anything, Quad has become stronger and more cohesive since Yi’s 2018 prognosis. In an era marked by geopolitical uncertainty, technological disruption, and shifting economic alliances, the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue—or Quad—has emerged…

The shockwaves from the Bharatiya Janata Party’s resounding victory in West Bengal are still being felt across the national political landscape. A major rift has emerged within the Trinamool Congress, a party that had enjoyed unchecked power in West Bengal for 15 consecutive years. The results of the West Bengal Assembly elections were declared on…

I’m writing this on my flight home from my first Cannes — a week that felt part film festival, part networking Olympics, part some sort of extremely elegant endurance sport. I arrived with helpful veteran connections, vague intentions, and absolutely no real understanding of what Cannes actually is. Naturally, a number of rookie mistakes followed….

A simple transparency-first approach—without fees, portals, or procedural hurdles—based  on disclosure of answer scripts, student verification, and targeted re-evaluation could have enabled independent score verification and correction, while avoiding much of the  controversy surrounding CBSE’s OSM rollout.  ▪ The OSM controversy is fundamentally a transparency and process-design issue, not  merely a technology problem.  ▪ Once…