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At the age of 10, Megha Malagatti saw the Miss World and Miss Universe pageants and dreamed of one day, leaving her small home town of Gadag and joining such a glamorous world. In reality, she built a career in engineering – decidedly less glamorous! Whilst a highly rewarding occupation (Megha was part of the…

How TOI can help end wars and deflate egos Could mainstream media – including TOI that couldn’t get more main or stream if it wanted to – stop the US-Iran war overnight? In fact, could media stop all wars, and cut down to size the inflated egos that cause them?  This was the assertion made…

When exams go wrong, students pay the price. This year, many Class 12 students got a nasty shock after their board results came out. CBSE had started a new system where answer sheets were scanned and checked on computers instead of on paper. It sounded modern and efficient. But for some students, it turned into…

A few weeks ago, a friend asked me for a recommendation for a good university programme for his son. Since I was travelling, he in the meantime thought to research himself. Guess, what he used? To my liking, he actually opened ChatGPT and typed a simple question: “Which are the best private universities near Delhi…

There is no smooth road into the future. We begin to spawn novae approaches, to have new little gains. The time is running rather hard to come up with the stolidity and the staunchness of  agreements. The world today stands at the cusp of a different state where conflict, contradictions, apprehensions, fear and anxiety are…

There is, I admit, something deeply unbecoming about defending a club. Especially a club sitting on 27.3 acres of Lutyens’ Delhi, on government land, with a notional land value now being discussed at around Rs 27,000 crore, investments reportedly running into hundreds of crores, and a waiting list so long that a child may apply…

One of the supposed realities of modern times social / economic / financial / business environment is being caught in the ‘middle’. The middle is associated with failure to reach the top, instead of being considered a ladder to climb to the top. In political parlance it is said that the middle ground is disappearing…

Privilege will never go away. Because it’s pure human instinct. But it’ll take interesting forms  Privilege is many things. One of them is the ability to say no to authority. Govt builds a new expressway, thousands of farmers give up their land. But one holds out. You might label it defiance, but there’s no defiance…

Human life moves through decisions. Every moment places us at a crossroad. Some choices pass unnoticed, while others silently alter the direction of our entire existence. A single decision may elevate a person toward truth, while another may gradually distance him from his own inner peace. This is why decisions are never ordinary. They carry…

By Swami Sukhabodhananda Human beings rarely suffer because of one isolated incident. More often, suffering becomes a pattern. One person repeatedly feels rejected. Another constantly feels betrayed. Someone else keeps experiencing failure, humiliation or loneliness. Life appears to move forward, yet inwardly we remain trapped in familiar cycles of pain. Why does this happen? The…