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There are inheritances that do not come as wealth or possessions but as values, stories and a sense of duty passed from one generation to the next. For my family, the legacy of my grandfather, Sardar Teja Singh Samundri, is one such inheritance. His name belongs not only to our family history but also to…

At first glance, the ceasefire understanding between the United States and Iran appears to be steadily unravelling. Public rhetoric has hardened, military signalling continues unabated, and both sides increasingly question each other’s commitment to de-escalation. Yet appearances can be deceptive. Rather than signalling the collapse of diplomacy, these developments point to a carefully managed process…

You use an NVIDIA GeForce RTX GPU and an Apple Mac Mini with unified memory for running open-source LLMs locally. You realise that systems without enough GPUs, which cannot run LLMs, stop making sense to you. Your interfaces to the world are digital. Your devices are digital. You are digital. You replaced writing on paper…

A few months ago I took a long drive across the city with a cousin who works in architecture. I spent the whole ride reading the street the way I always do. Which shops had survived and which had turned over, what the signage said about who lived there now, and where people had dragged…

A weak monsoon should nudge farmers to grow more pulses, oilseeds and millets, not thirsty sugarcane We knew in April this was going to be a weak monsoon. With half of July gone, around 400 of India’s districts have a rain deficit. That’s a challenge for Indian agriculture, which is still highly rain-dependent. Govt data…

A Nashik family’s nightmare experience speaks to a danger lurking across India’s public spaces A family picnic represents a refresh button: To enjoy fresh air, sunlight, green grass, and good food, in the good company of one’s loved ones. But the whole thing’s also a risk. Because safety in our public spaces has become so…

We kill greed, yet it rises again. All Asian cultures criticise and condemn greed, reflected in folk cultures and oral traditions. Yet, it reappears, repeatedly. Incidents over the last few months, such as NEET-paper leak or the Ram Janmabhoomi Mandir theft, all reveal the root cause – greed. The Ram temple embezzlement severely jolted people’s…

A hundred years ago, on 17 July 1926, a Sikh reformer died inside a British prison in Lahore, having refused to purchase his freedom with a single signature. He declined high office throughout his life, believing that movements decay when individuals rise above institutions. And yet, the building that houses the headquarters of the Shiromani…

By Chanchalapathi Dasa Why did Krishn leave the residents of Vrindavan? Why did he not return, even though they longed for him? Chaitanya Mahaprabhu explains this through a profound spiritual understanding. For him, the devotion of residents of Vrindavan represents the highest expression of love for Krishn. Generally, people think of God as the all-powerful…

The heart is not always its GSP marker The news refuses to go away even when you think you’ve got away. The first visual at London’s Museum of the Home’ was of  ‘Bunoo’, an ayah brought to England from Calcutta in 1878 ‘to look after the Stevenson family’s children during the long voyage’, and then…