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There was a time when my faith in government institutions was deep and unwavering. I used to regularly visit the Indian Tourism Tourist Office to gather information on travel destinations. Every visit filled me with warmth. I would often tell the officers how closely knit and welcoming the office felt, and how much I wished…

Achilles was held by the heel when his mother dipped him into the River Styx, protecting him from harm. But the undipped heel tendon itself has plagued athletes for ages. Here are the four ways to restore the function of a ruptured Achilles tendon. Almost all Achilles tendon ruptures heal on their own, untreated. The…

SQ in Leadership is the phrase I wish more executives would say out loud, without whispering, without apologising, and without confusing it with incense and hymns. Spiritual intelligence in leadership is not about joining a religion. It is about joining yourself. I have coached brilliant, high-IQ leaders who could model a market in an afternoon,…

The US and Israel finally decided to cross a Rubicon that had been looming over the Middle Eastern strategic landscape for some time. Their coordinated strikes on Iranian targets were not merely tactical operations; they were a political statement about deterrence and credibility while underlining the limits of diplomacy in a polarised geostrategic landscape. Israel’s…

One of the serious cultural shortcomings with us argumentative Indians is that we are often quick to dismiss an issue without considering its full scope. The current debate on Indianising Indian history lies at the heart of the recent removal of Sir Edwin Lutyens’ statue at Rashtrapati Bhavan. Lutyens, along with Herbert Baker, was responsible…

Regardless of how some people of the Iranian diaspora in the West envision a lost golden period for Iran, the country has always been porous, just like every other nation on the earth. When you constrain Iran to a bounded cultural zone, you are subjected to cultural atavism. Alas! Culture is not a set of…

Festivals in our tradition are rarely external events alone. They are invitations to inner transformation. Holi, often seen as a celebration of colours, carries within it a deeper spiritual message — one that reveals itself when we pause to contemplate the word itself. In Sanskrit, a word is not merely sound; it carries layers of…

Sir C V Raman (7 November 1888 – 21 November 1970), the first Asian and non-White person to receive a Nobel Prize in Physics. On February 28, 1928, Sir C.V. Raman demonstrated the Raman Effect: light changes wavelength and frequency when passing through a transparent material. That breakthrough won India its first Nobel Prize in…

Debapriya Mukhopadhyay Debapriya Mukhopadhyay is a distinguished Indian optometrist, vision scientist, researcher, and philanthropist dedicated to advancing eye health and community welfare. He began his journey in optometry in 2003, assisting in clinical practice, and earned his Bachelor of Optometry from Vidyasagar College of Optometry & Vision Science, followed by a Master of Optometry from…

By Vithal C Nadkarni The celebrated American naturalist-cum-essayist Henry David Thoreau once confessed in his journals that he did ‘not know where to find in any literature, whether ancient or modern, any adequate account of that Nature with which i am acquainted.” Thoreau added candidly, though almost as an arguably subversive afterthought, that “mythology came…