It 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 ...
Read moreWhen difficulty begins to change usHuman beings naturally seek comfort. We move toward pleasure, safety, familiarity, and emotional ease. There is nothing wrong with this; it is part of our biological ...
Read moreThe internet did not kill the written word; it changed how humans consume it. Today, we write more than any generation in history, sending billions of emails, texts and online updates daily. Yet, whil ...
Read moreEvery generation is inclined to believe that the one which follows has somehow drifted away from the values that shaped its own youth. More often than not, such reflections are coloured by nostalgia. ...
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