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When leaf and airline food go separate ways There is a particular vanity in offering advice one has not yet been compelled to follow. For years, friends, family, the occasional stranger trapped in an airport queue…have been informed, with the gentle insistence of a man who fancies he knows better, that on long-haul flights one…

ACs are becoming firebombs. Upgrade their design Air conditioners (ACs) are catching fire or even exploding often enough that it should worry us. But nobody really knows how big the problem is because the government doesn’t keep official records of injuries or deaths caused by AC fires. There are a few obvious reasons. More and…

There was a time when India was celebrated not merely as an ancient civilisation, but as a civilisation of ideas. Long before modern democracies spoke of pluralism and coexistence, India had nurtured traditions of philosophical debate, spiritual inquiry, and intellectual dissent. This was a land where sages questioned existence, poets challenged social divisions, and saints rose above narrow identities in…

When a woman gets married, she always yearns to visit her parental home. Similarly, ever since I got married to spirituality (Vajrayana), I have yearned to go to Takshang (Tiger’s Nest), Bhutan. Though I yearned for a decade to visit Bhutan, it materialised recently when I reached Paro and began preparing for the trek to my ‘parental home’, Takshang, to…

Fashion has often been divided into categories. There are clothes for work, clothes for weddings, clothes for festivals, and clothes for casual outings. Style has usually been associated with special occasions, while everyday dressing is seen as something practical rather than expressive. Today, that perception is changing. In India, across cities and towns, women are…

‘Compassion arises from attention’. This line stood out for me as I read it some time ago. It’s only when you rest your attention on something, that you allow yourself to feel anything. So, what do we do when we see an injured animal on the street? We try not to pay attention. Because if…

7. Theory 3: DDT Pesticides Similarly to arsenic, the DDT theory has two variants: direct and indirect. The DDT theory traces back to a 1953 paper by Morton Biskind, Public Health Aspects of the New Insecticides, in which he linked polio to the increased use of DDT. “In the Philippines and elsewhere in the Far…

Don’t trade life for a puff. Smoke fades. Damage stays. May 31 is World No-Tobacco Day — a global reminder of thedevastating health, social, and economic consequences oftobacco consumption. Spearheaded by the World HealthOrganization, the day is more than just a symbolic campaign. Itis a call to action for governments, healthcare systems,educators, families, and individuals…

The Apex Court’s ruling in the case of Chinthada Anand v State of Andhara Pradesh & Ors in March, 2026 is arguable one of the most important ruling for the Scheduled Tribe and Scheduled Caste communities in our country, especially when nation-wide census process has begun. The Apex Court in Chinthada Anand case has held…

As education increasingly integrates technology to expand its scale and efficiency, are educational institutions investing enough in system readiness and contingency planning? The purpose of this write -up is to objectively analyse the recent CBSE portal disruption and draw important lessons in digital readiness for educationalinstitutions rapidly moving towards large scale digital governance and online…