More than half-a-century ago, Nixon, a Republican, lifted the trade embargo against China. Three decades later, Clinton, a Democrat, facilitated the entry of China into the World Trade Order (WTO). Bo ...
Read moreThe Freedom of Allowing Life to UnfoldHuman beings naturally seek control. We plan, organise, anticipate, protect, and prepare. At one level, this is necessary. Responsibility requires structure, effo ...
Read moreLook at the next policeman you pass. Cap on the dashboard, shirt loose at the back, belt slack, boots grey. He may be a brave man with twenty years of good service. The citizen approaching him cannot ...
Read moreIt is not always that a city loses the very thing that gives it a name and an identity when it embraces a new future. Sandila was a sleepy town near Lucknow only three decades ago. Its image and its c ...
Read moreThree incidents in the last four months have brought the humans-versus-machines debate to the fore once again. During April to July, Anthropic’s Claude found that a network misconfiguration had left ...
Read moreWhy silence heals the human mindModern life rarely becomes quiet. Even when external noise reduces, internal activity often continues—thinking, planning, remembering, anticipating, comparing, w ...
Read moreI don’t remember exactly when it happened, but somewhere over the last decade I have begun to notice that abusive language has become remarkably common in everyday conversations. It is heard in poli ...
Read moreSome of cinema's greatest magic is created not by the stars on screen, but by the artists who build the worlds audiences inhabit. Among them stands veteran art director Anjani Tiwari, whose remarkable ...
Read moreIn Hindu philosophy, there is a belief that everything happens for a reason. If that thought holds, the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) protest at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar has served a purpose far greater ...
Read moreThere is not much on which most of the nations of the world agree. There is one on which there is not much room for disagreement: China lies. It lies to its own people and it lies to the world. There ...
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