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The world is not facing a temporary water shortage. It is entering water bankruptcy. Nearly half of humanity now experiences severe water scarcity for at least part of each year. Reservoirs shrink. Crops fail. Aquifers collapse. Cities sink. Wildfires and dust storms intensify in places once considered stable. These are not isolated crises. They are…
Today’s edition tracks a sharp 45% drop in Indian students heading to US universities amid visa uncertainty and rising costs, a political flashpoint involving Zohran Mamdani in an ICE detention case, and an online storm over a Harvard Sanskrit course artwork accused of being “Hinduphobic”. THE BIG STORY 45% drop in Indians at US universities…
“Until you become an unbeliever in yourself, you cannot become a believer in God,” said Hazrat Abu Sa’id Abul-Khayr (967–1049), a renowned Persian Sufi mystic. In the hustle and bustle of daily life, our existence often gets limited to our needs, our desires. Our singular focus on the needs of the self becomes the veil…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent visit to Israel marks another chapter in a relationship that has quietly transformed over the past three decades. What was once a cautious and largely low-profile engagement has evolved into one of India’s most significant strategic partnerships in West Asia. The visit is not merely a diplomatic ceremony. It reflects…
India’s GDP is growing as are aspirations of the people. Both require water. And herein lies the challenge of the balance: How to meet increasing demand when water is running out, quantitively and qualitatively? India is one of the top countries at risk because of water scarcity, floods, water pollution and climate change. The multiple…
Teenagers are naturally attracted to foreign cultures, and thus languages. Encourage this Policy is all very well, but what about pleasure? It gets little mention in politically charged shouting matches about the Centre’s three-language policy, or its heated two-language rebuttals. In all the earnest talk of national identity, competitiveness and cultural preservation, joy barely gets…
Kyiv: Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff told a gathering of the Yalta European Strategy here that resolving territorial issues in the Russia-Ukraine war could be left to a direct meeting between Zelenskyy and Putin. Joining online from Washington and touting a possible future trilateral between the leaders of US, Ukraine and Russia, Witkoff asserted that…
Trump recently said Europeans would ‘all be speaking German’ had America not ‘won’ WWII. By oversight or design, he didn’t acknowledge Britain’s and Soviet Union’s big role in wresting Allied victory. Also ignored was the historical context and pillars of US’s postwar might. Emerging from WWII as a global superpower, US needed and cultivated transatlantic…
Hamnet, directed by Chloé Zhao, is a strong contender at this year’s Oscars. It is a heart-wrenching fiction about Shakespeare and his wife, Agnes (or Anne), and the event that allegedly inspired the play Hamlet: the loss of their only son, Hamnet, at the age of eleven. Agnes never forgives her husband for being absent…
