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My first visit to London in 1997 was truly a dream come true, a journey that felt less like tourism and more like stepping into the pages of my childhood imagination. Having studied in an Irish convent school, I had grown up immersed in English literature, culture, and history. The worlds created by William Shakespeare,…

The age of capricious ignorance “Reason and Ignorance, opposites of each other, influence the great bulk of mankind. Reason obeys itself; Ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it,” as Thomas Paine wrote in The Rights of Man (1795). Two centuries later, Paine’s foresightedness remains true. As we progress technologically, we digress socially. Individualism is…

  Today’s edition looks at power, migration and ambition across the Indian diaspora. In the US, Democrats are still trying to understand how Kamala Harris lost 2024 and why the road to 2028 already looks uncertain. In the UK, Indians remain the largest group of non-EU nationals receiving long-term visas, even as Britain tightens its…

For decades, the labour and employment laws have been treated as a policy promise, something that the government kept announcing, something that companies filed away under “monitor and review,” something that would require action eventually. That “eventually” arrived in November 2025, when the Central Government notified the reformed labour codes. These codes replaced 29 central…

The Presidential Palace in Taipei looked so majestic; people gathered that day were beaming with hope. I watched then President Tsai Ing-wen come over, looked at the gathering, and said boldly –We are launching a key foreign policy. I was seated next to her, felt like a historic moment. She looked at me and said…

A high-level 20-member U.S. Executive Nuclear Industry Delegation visited India from May 18 to May 21, 2026, to explore private investment and technology commercialization opportunities in India’s civil nuclear energy sector. Co-hosted by the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) and the US-India Strategic Partnership Forum (USISPF), the mission follows landmark legislative changes in India aimed at…

Political party named after cockroach makes sense. Roaches have all the qualities netas need   There can be no quarrel with the new political kid on the block: Cockroach Janta Party. The very name courts attention. Think – roaches have attributes and  qualities that are tailormade for politics. Long antennae, scanning and sweeping to sense their…

On a recent flight, a co-passenger was a stowaway seeking illegal entry into Italy I’d never been on a flight on which one of my fellow passengers was a stowaway, a ticketless traveller. The flight was to Milan, and Bunny and I were on it.  The airline has as its mascot a chubby Maharaja with…

By Vir Singh Our contemporary world is torn by wars fought over territories, borders, resources, economic hegemony, and political ego. There is no ideology behind a war that could address human miseries, cultivate hope, and bring happiness to those who claim to be triumphant. In fact, no one wins a war. Wars feed onthe young…

Rising temperatures are hurting people’s health, learning and productivity. This is a drag on the economy, but there’s no easy fix. We’ll need different strategies for each micro-region India continues to face conventional national security threats from across its borders and within. But an equally serious, and far less visible, threat is intensifying in the…